Bicycle toe plate for use with a coaster brake
OwnerJon A. Marasinventor
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Abstract
A bicycle toe plate for use in combination with a bicycle wheel having a hub portion containing a coaster brake and an axle extending therethrough. The coaster brake includes a brake arm which is held in fixed relation to the bicycle frame by a protruding portion of the toe plate. The protruding portion of the toe plate defines a slot for receiving the brake arm wherein movement of the brake arm into engagement within the slot occurs simultaneously with the movement required to mount the bicycle wheel to the toe plate.
Claims19
A bicycle toe plate for use in combination with a bicycle wheel having a hub portion containing a coaster brake and an axle extending therethrough, said coaster brake including an elongated brake arm, said toe plate comprising a planar portion with a slot therein for receiving said axle, and means spaced from said axle slot defining a brake arm engagement surface on said toe plate for engaging said brake arm, said brake arm being longer than the spacing between said surface and said axle slot, said axle slot and said brake arm engagement surface having a positional and structural relationship which allows said axle to be slid into said axle slot and said brake arm to be engaged with said engagement surface simultaneously in one sliding motion thereby to assemble said coaster brake and toe plate and to essentially prevent rotational movement of said brake arm about said axle.
A bicycle toe plate for use in combination with a bicycle wheel having a hub portion containing a coaster brake and an axle extending therethrough, said coaster brake including an elongated brake arm, said toe plate comprising a planar portion with a slot therein for receiving said axle, a protruding portion extending between said planar portion and said brake arm, and means spaced from said axle slot for defining a brake arm engagement surface on said protruding portion, said brake arm being longer than the spacing between said surface and said axle slot, said axle slot and said brake arm engagement surface having a positional and structural relationship which allows said axle to be slid into said axle slot after said brake arm is engaged with said engagement surface in one sliding motion thereby to assemble said coaster brake and toe plate and to essentially prevent rotational movement of said brake arm relative to said toe plate about said axle.
A bicycle toe plate for use in combination with a bicycle wheel having a hub portion containing a coaster brake and an axle extending therethrough, said coaster brake including an elongated brake arm, said toe plate comprising a planar portion with a slot extending inwardly from a rearward end of said toe plate for receiving said axle, a protruding portion formed integrally with said planar portion spaced from said axle slot and defined by a forward portion of said toe plate extending generally perpendicular to said planar portion defining a brake arm engagement surface said brake arm being longer than the spacing between said surface and said axle slot, said brake arm engaging said engagement surface, said surface contacting opposing edges of said brake arm, said axle slot and said brake arm engagement surface having a positional and structural relationship which allows said axle to be slid into said axle slot after said brake arm is engaged with said engagement surface in one sliding motion thereby to assemble said coaster brake and toe plate and to essentially prevent rotational movement of said brake arm about said axle.
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