Drum pedal and pedal module for enhanced drumming
AssigneeJohn Crocken
InventorsJohn Crocken, Jack Lawrence
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Abstract
Drum pedal apparatus which, in addition to the essential or typical mechanical structure, has a footboard structure having a main-portion upper surface and a plurality of roller balls rotatably mounted within the thickness of the main portion and each presenting a spherical cap, thereby providing a pedal-pushing surface including the roller-ball spherical caps. The invention is also a drum-pedal module for affixing onto the footboard of standard drum pedal apparatus, the module having a module main portion, the plurality of roller balls as described above, and pedal-affixation structure on or along the module main portion.
Claims18
In drum pedal apparatus including a base, a footboard depressably-mounted with respect to the base and movable between up and down positions, an axle support forward of the footboard and having a striker axle journaled therein for rotation by linkage to the footboard, a beater stem affixed to the striker axle and extending to a beater, spring apparatus biasing the footboard to non-depressed positions and the beater to non-striking positions, the improvement wherein the footboard comprises:
- a footboard structure having a main portion with a thickness and a foot-engageable upper surface;
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- a plurality of roller balls rotatably mounted within the thickness of the main portion and each presenting a spherical cap extending above the foot-engageable upper surface, thereby providing a pedal-pushing foot-engageable surface including the roller-ball spherical caps.
A drum-pedal module for affixing onto the footboard of drum pedal apparatus, the module comprising:
- a main portion for placing across the footboard, the main portion having a thickness and a foot-engageable module upper surface;
- pedal-affixation structure on or along the module main portion;
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- a plurality of roller balls rotatably mounted within the thickness of the main portion and each presenting a spherical cap extending above the foot-engageable upper surface, thereby providing a pedal-pushing foot-engageable surface.
In drum pedal apparatus including a base, a footboard depressably-mounted with respect to the base and movable between up and down positions, an axle support forward of the footboard and having a striker axle journaled therein for rotation by linkage to the footboard, a beater stem affixed to the striker axle and extending to a beater, spring apparatus biasing the footboard to non-depressed positions and the beater to non-striking positions, the improvement wherein the footboard comprises:
- a footboard structure having a main portion with a thickness and a foot-engageable upper surface;
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- a plurality of roller balls rotatably mounted within the thickness of the main portion, each spaced from each of its adjacent roller balls and each presenting an exposed rotatable surface at a level above the upper surface of the module main portion therearound, thereby providing a pedal-pushing foot-engageable surface that includes the combination of exposed rotatable surfaces and the upper surface around each exposed rotatable surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.