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US 10,517,349 B2Granted
Bicycle shoe to pedal cleat shim and mounting
OwnerChristopher Martininventor
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An improved bicycle shoe to pedal cleat shim comprises a shim body with mating faces on opposite sides of the shim body, each for mating with another surface, each mating face having two or more shim to shim keying features. There is also a cleat with two or more cleat to shim keying features. There is also a mounting screw with a convex curved seating face and a washer with a substantially matching mating concave curved seating face. The screw has one or more grooves incrementally cut along the length of the thread. The shim has thickness marks adjacent to the screw relief pocket on the shim. There is also a cleat with the cleat to shoe/shim mating face having one or more friction inducing pads that comprise a pocket to allow space for friction material to flow when the cleat is mated to the shoe, shim or another shim.
An improved bicycle shoe to pedal cleat first shim comprising a shim body with mating faces on opposite sides of the shim body, each for mating with another surface, each mating face having a plurality of shim-to-shim-keying-features, wherein the shim-to-shim-keying-features comprise two or more pins offset to the same side of a heel to toe centreline of the first shim on one of the mating faces, wherein the shim-to-shim-keying-features comprise two or more sockets on the other mating face for receiving pins of a second shim, wherein the sockets are to the same side of the heel to toe centreline as the pins of the first shim.
An improved bicycle shoe to pedal cleat first shim comprising a shim body with mating faces on opposite sides of the shim body, each for mating with another surface, each mating face having a plurality of shim-to-shim-keying-features, wherein the shim-to-shim-keying-features comprise two or more pins offset to the same side of a heel to toe centreline of the first shim on one of the mating faces, and wherein the shim-to-shim-keying-features comprise two or more sockets on the same mating face as the face with the pins and are for receiving pins of a second shim, wherein the sockets are on the opposite side of the heel to toe centreline as the pins of the first shim.
An improved bicycle shoe to pedal cleat first shim comprising a shim body with mating faces on opposite sides of the shim body, each for mating with another surface, each mating face having a plurality of shim-to-shim-keying-features, wherein the shim-to-shim-keying-features comprise two or more pins offset to the same side of a heel to toe centreline of the first shim on one of the mating faces, and wherein the shim-to-shim-keying-features comprise two or more sockets on the other mating face for receiving pins of a second shim, wherein the sockets are spaced symmetrically about the heel to toe centreline of the first shim.
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