US1159923A - Adjustable pedal-pad. - Google Patents

Description

H. W.-GASTON.

ADJUSTABLE PEDAL PAD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I2, 1913. RENEWED AUG. 2I, I9I5.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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RIVES ADJUSTABLE PEDAL PAD 66., INC.-, A CGRPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ADJUSTABLE PEDAL-Pei).

Application filed September 12, 1913, Serial No. 789,520.-

To all "whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY VJ. GASTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Pedal-Pads, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used in conjunction with automobiles.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide an adjustable pad designed to be applied upon the head of the foot pedal of the brake-lever or clutch-lever of an automobile, or like vehicle for preventing the foot of the chauffeur from slipping whereby the brake, or clutch may be under absolute control at all times, and wherein'a pad of rubber, or other resilient material is employed in a manner to adapt it to be used upon pedals of various dimensions, thereby overcoming the requirement for producing pads of special sizes for practically every make of automobile as is incident with the forms of this class of devices ordinarily in use, and especially the forms of pedal pads requiring the use of bolts, or the like to fasten them to the brake-lever, or clutchlever, and which necessitates puncturing the pedals in a manner tending to weaken the pedal.

Another object of the invention is to provide a plurality of yielding clips for detachably clamping the resilient pad to the pedal head, and which serve to permit the pad to be readily applied upon pedals of different thicknesses.

A further object of the invention is to provide means serving to adjustably lock each pair of the clips so as to be held to the pedal against accidental displacement as well as serving to permit the pad to be used upon pedals of various widths.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate cor responding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary side view of the pedal of a brake-lever or clutch-lever of an automobile, showing a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 191.5. Renewed August '21, 1915; serial No. 46,671;

and the pad. Fig. 3 is an inverted view of the resilient pad used in the device. Fig.

is an inverted view, partly in section, showing the pad detachably fastened to the pedal of a brake-lever, or clutchlever. Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line IH-HI of Fig. Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line H-H of Fig. 1, and 7 is a perspective view of two of the yielding clips used in conjunction with the device.

The device has a pad 10 adapted to be applied upon the pedal, as 11, of the usual, or any preferred form of brake-lever as Well as the clutch-lever of an automobile, or like vehicle. The pad 10 may be made of rubber, or other resilient material, and said pad is preferably formed in a substantially rectangular shape, though said pad may be made in other suitable forms as occasion requires to be effectually employed for preventing the foot of the chauffeur of the vehicle from slipping thereon whereby the brake, or clutch mechanism may be under absolute control at all times. Transversely through the pad 10 are deep indentations or passages 12 and 13 whicha're preferably disposed in parallel arrangement, and parts of the underside of said pad are cut-out, or notched, at 14, 15, 16, 17, and each of these notches is in communication with one of the ends of each of the passages. Longitudinally of the underside of the pad 10 and adjacent to the marginal edges of the notches 14 and 16 is a metal strip 18 which is sunken into the pad, and also longitudinally of the underside of said pad and adjacent to the marginal edges of the notches 15 and 17 is a second metal strip 19.

The strips 18 and 19 serve to provide retaining parts for the pad for engagement therewith of yielding clips, as 20, 21, 22, 23 which serve for detachably holding the pad upon the pedal against accidental displacement. All of the clips 20, 21, 22, 23 are similarly formed, and said clips are preferably made of spring metal. Each clip has a substantially U-shaped, or hook-shaped head 24:, the free end portion of one of the arms of which is bent inwardly in a direction toward the second arm thereof, and disposed outwardly at an angle from the free end of the second arm of the head of each clip is a lug, or arm 25 having a threaded opening therethrough. In practice the pad 10 is applied upon the top surface of the pedal, and the ends of the bent arms of the heads of the clips are inserted in the passages of the pad 10 so as to pass over the strips 18 and 19. The second arms of the heads of each of the clips are then sprung over the edges of the pedal of the brake-lever, or clutchlever in a manner so that the second arms will engage the underside of the pedal, and the strips 18 and 19 of the pad will thereby be disposed between the arms of the head of each clip. By forming the clips 20, 21, 22, 23 of suitable lengths, and making said clips of spring metal the pad may be suitably adjusted to fit upon pedals of various widths and thicknesses.

In order to render the clamping means described adapted to different widths of pad and pedal plate, each of the spring- bight clamps 20, 21, 22 and 23 is provided with an eye or lug 25 and each pair of clamps 20, 21, 22, 23 with a screw and locknut asclearly shown in Fig. 1.

It Will be observed that in virtue of the spring-tensioned bight- like clamps 20, 21, 22, 23, the channels 15, 16 and the strips or barsl8, 19 embedded in the. surface of the pad 10 contiguous to the plate 11 so as to occupy only a part of the depth of the channels, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the upper surface of the pad is leftfree from protrusions, and in consequence deprived of every possibility of hindering instantaneous removal of the foot from the pedal which in the use of foot-operated vehicle brakes is a matter of considerable importance.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that Copies of this patent may be obtained for modifications may be made therein Without departing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly'fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent g 1. A pedal plate with a pad therefor having indentations in its to the said plate, bars embedded in the said surface so as to occupy only part of the depth of each of the said indentations, clamps for clamping the said pad to the said plateby entering the said and engaging the said bars.

'2. A pedal plate with a pad therefor having channels in its surface contiguous to the said plate, bars embedded in the said surface so as to occupy only part of the depth of each of the said channels, oppositely disposed clamps for clamping the said bars to the said plate, and means for holding opposite clamps adjustably in relation to each other. v

3. A pedal plate with a pad therefor hav ing channels in its surface contiguous to the said plate, surface so as to occupy part of the depth of each of the said'channels, oppositely dis'- posed spring-bights clamping the said bars to the said plate, and screw means-for holding opposite bights adjustably in relation to each other. i

This specification signed and witnessed this eleventh HARRY W. GASTON.

\Vitnesses:

RoB'r. B. ABBOTT, WM. Fisk.

five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,- Washington, D. 0.

surface contiguous.

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bars embedded in the said] indentations p day of September A. D. 1913.

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