Improvements in Perambulators or similar Vehicles.
Year: 1890

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* Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1890-Accepted, 10th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Perambulators or similar Vehicles.
1 THOMAS ROYDHOUSE of Fulham Cross in the County of Middlesex Mineral
Water Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows: :-
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My invention has for its object to provide perambulators or similar vehicles with a
brake such that the brake is automatically put on when the person by whom the
perambulator is propelled leaves go the handle of the perambulator or the like. The
brake may take the form of an arm or double arms which engage the wheels or one
of the wheels when the perambulator handle is not grasped but when the handle is so
grasped a lever or analogous device is moved in such a manner that the arm or arms
is or are withdrawn from engagement with the wheel or wheels. Therefore when
the person in charge of the vehicle leaves hold on the handle the arm or arms
automatically engage with the wheel or wheels and so the brake is put on.
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J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Perambulators or similar Vehicles.
I, THOMAS ROYDHOUSE Fulham Cross S.W. Mineral Water Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention has for its object to provide perambulators or similar vehicles with
a brake such that the brake is automatically put on, when the person by whom the
perambulator is propelled, leaves go of the handle of the perambulator or the like.
The brake may take the form of an arm, or double arins which engage the wheels
or one of the wheels when the perambulator handle is not grasped, but when the
handle is so grasped a lever or analogous device is moved in such a manner that the
arm or arms, is or are withdrawn from engagement with the spokes of the wheel or
wheels.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I now refer to the annexed
drawing in which a rear view of a perambulator is shown fitted with my brake arrange-
ment. In the handle of the perambulator two bent levers care pivoted at a, a, and
work up and down in slots or grooves & at bare pivoted to the rod d which is in
turn pivotally secured at h, to the two brake levers f which are pivoted to the axle i
at g or other suitable part. e is a coil spring or its equivalent for maintaining the
brakes in their applied position, viz. engaging with the spokes of the wheel or wheels.
It will be understood that when the handle of the perambulator is grasped, the
levers c, c, will recede into the handle thus depressing the rod d, and so releasing the
brake rods ff, from the wheels of the vehicle, by disengaging the said rods f, f,
from the spokes of the wheels. I do not confine myself to the precise details as herein
set forth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
(1) In safety brake devices for perambulators and such like vehicles, the combination

page_text: of two or more levers with the handle of a perambulator or such like vehicle, said
levers operating a rod or its equivalent controlled by a suitable spring which when
the handle is grasped withdraws the brake from the wheels through the medium of
one or more levers substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1890.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.