Pedal for a bicycle
AssigneeShimano Industrial Company Limited
InventorShinpei Okajima
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Abstract
A pedal for a bicycle, having a pedal body and a bearing mechanism for rotatably supporting the pedal body to a crank arm, the pedal body being equipped with a toe clip and a toe strap. The pedal body is displaced with respect to the bearing mechanism and the bearing mechanism comprises a bearing cylinder extending from the pedal body and having a threaded bore, a spindle screwable therewith, and a tubular member fixed to the crank arm, the spindle having at its outer periphery a first ball race, the bearing cylinder having at its outer periphery a second ball race larger in diameter than the first ball race, so that the bearing cylinder and spindle may be rotatably supported to the fixed tubular member through balls carried by the ball races.
Claims6
A pedal for a bicycle, having a pedal body and a bearing mechanism for rotatably supporting said pedal body to a crank arm, the pedal body being equipped with a toe clip and a toe strap, said pedal body being displaced downwardly with respect to an axis of rotation of said bearing mechanism, and having at opposite longitudinal ends a front side-plate and a rear side-plate, each having a respective foot bearing surface, said pedal body having a substantially triangular shaped forward extension extending forwardly of said axis, said extension having an upper surface and a bottom surface which tapers away from said upper surface in a direction of moving away from a fore end of said extension, said bottom surface of said extension being in continuation of and forming part of a bottom surface of said pedal body, said front side-plate being mounted on said extension and being curved forward along the outer edge of said extension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.