Year: 1886

page_text: I JARRATT LIVERSIDGE, of the firm of J. Liversidge & Son, of 196 Old Street,
St. Lukes, in the County of Middlesex, Carriage, Wagon, and Van Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a break for common road vehicles, and especially
adapted for large and heavy vehicles, such as furniture vans; and the object of
the Invention is to provide a simple and effective break which may act on either
one or both of the rear-wheels, and whose parts are not liable to fracture, or get
out of order.
Heavy vehicles, such as furniture vans, are, as a rule, merely provided with shoes
or skids, and it is found in practice that the men in charge of such vans often
neglect to take the trouble to apply the skid when necessary. By my Invention,
however, I provide the driver with a powerful brake which is within easy reach,
and which may be readily operated without the necessity of the driver, or other
person, descending from his seat.
According to my Invention, the brake consists of a hand shaft, mounted in
bearings at the front of the vehicle, and a pair of brake blocks each carried by a
lever mounted on a vertical axis beneath the vehicle, the brake blocks being
operated by the hand shaft through the medium of a horizontal rock shaft which
is mounted beneath the vehicle and is provided with levers to which the brake
blocks and hand shaft are respectively connected. The hand shaft is furnished at
its upper end with a wheel for operating it, and its lower end is screw-threaded
and passes through a nut which is adapted to work up and down in guides on the
front of the van, to which the rock shaft is connected by a chain passing over
sheaves on the vehicle. The brake-blocks are held away from the wheels by a
spring applied to the rock shaft.

page_text: I JARRATT LIVERSIDGE of the firm of J. Liversidge & Son of 196 Old Street,
St. Lukes, in the County of Middlesex, Carriage, Wagon and Van Manufacturers
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
This invention relates to a brake for common road vehicles especially large and
heavy vehicles, such as furniture vans, railway vans and road waggons &c, and
the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective brake which may
be applied to one or both of the rear-wheels, and which is not liable to fracture or
to get out of order.
For heavy vehicles such as those above referred to the ordinary foot brake is not
powerful enough to be of service, and those vehicles are as a rule provided with
shoes or skids, which are troublesome to apply to and remove from the wheels,
and men in charge consequently often neglect to apply the skid when it is desirable
to do so.
By my invention, however, I provide the driver with a powerful brake which is
within easy reach of his hand, and which may be readily operated without the
necessity of the driver, or other person, descending from the van.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein figure 1 is a side elevation, Figure 2 a part front elevation
and figure 3 a part under side plan of a furniture van provided with my improved
brake gear.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
The brake blocks a of which one is applied to each hind wheel are each carried
at the outer end of a lever b pivoted at c on a vertical axis carried by a suitably
stayed bracket or post d fixed to the under side of the van body, the inner end of
each lever b is connected by a rod e to a crank arm f on a rock shaft mounted
transversely beneath the van body and common to both brakes. This rock shaft
is provided with a third crank arm g. which is connected by a chain h passing
round sheaves i mounted beneath the van body and by a forked link k, to a slide.
block fitted in vertical guides m fixed to the front of the van body. This slide
block is a nut through which works the screw-threaded portion of a vertical hand
shaft n mounted to turn in a collar bearing alongside the driver's seat, so as to be
incapable of longitudinal motion, and provided with a hand wheel at its upper end
for operating it. By turning the shaft n in one direction, the block is raised and
the brakes are applied to the wheels. On turning the shaft in the opposite
direction the block is lowered and the brake blocks are removed from the wheels
by the stress of a spring p attached to the arm g of the rock shaft,

page_text: 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:
A brake for vehicles consisting in the combination with the brake 'blocks a
mounted on levers b of a transverse rock shaft levers and connections, and of a
hand screw shaft and nut mounted as described and connected with the rock shaft
for opération, substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.