CURIOUS FOOT CYOLE. A German inventor ha-; designed a foot cycle in which the springs for raising Hhe foot usually found in such devices are avoided. The support is thus rtcadj and solid even when the person is &tafconarv The driving-wheel is situated imder't'hecenfre of pre&sure of the wearers Foot. Two fpri«« P« w1 * are secured to an rxtemion from the foot-plate, and are adapted when pressed downwards to engage projections formed on an endlera thain, but to side by tihe same when drawn uoward. The chain is thus driver forward at every downward stroke of bh« foot, and its motion w communicated to the driving -whorl. A b ; ake. situated or the forward end of the device, may be »perajted by downward pressure at the toe.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 2
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