Improvements in or relating to Brakes for Cycles, Motor Vehicles, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 6th Nov., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Brakes for Cycles, Motor Vehicles,
and the like.
I, FRANCIS WILLIAM ROSSER, of 54 Bolton Road, West Ham, in the County of
Essex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to brakes for cycles, motor vehicles and the like, its object
being the construction of cheap and simple devices for holding and guiding the
parts of the brake-mechanism, capable of being applied with facility to cycles or
the like and readily removable from place when desired. Such devices are
applicable to old machines inasmuch as no modification of the machine is needed
to permit their application.
According to this invention the pivot on which the brake lever turns is carried
by a clip preferably formed as a pair of jaws receiving both the lever and say the
handle-bar; conveniently the clip has its sides brought together near the lever
so as to confine the latter sufficiently to prevent unnecessary lateral movement, a
bolt or pin being passed through or placed in the clip for the lever to turn on.
The opposite sides of the clip can be formed of a single piece, of suitable shape,
or they may be connected by a hinge. Bolts or other tightening-devices are
provided at the free ends of the jaws, to cause them to grip the handle-bar or other
part to which they are applied.
To guide the brake-rod or plunger a similar clip can be provided, so shaped as
to embrace say the base of the fork stem and to provide a cylindrical portion which
may serve as a guide for the rod or plunger.
Conveniently, within the cylindrical portion thus provided a sleeve is gripped
or otherwise secured, as by screw-threads for instance; this sleeve, of the desired
length, possesses the advantage of being readily adjustable endwise in the afore-
said cylindrical portion of the clip to enable its position to be suited to the range
of movement of the brake block and to limit the same as desired.
Dated this 27th day of November 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
0 Improvements in or relating to Brakes for Cycles, Motor Vehicles,
and the like.
I, FRANCIS WILLIAM ROSSER, formerly of 54 Bolton Road, West Ham, in the
County of Essex, now of Haslemere, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, in
[Price 8d.]

page_text: the County of Warwick, Engineer, 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 brakes for cycles and the like the object being the
construction of a cheap and simple device for holding and guiding the brake rod
and controlling the throw of the brake mechanism, capable of being applied with
facility to cycles or the like, and readily removable from place when desired. The
device is applicable to old machines inasmuch as no modification of the machine
is needed to permit its application.
In carrying out the invention a clip is employed having two pairs of adjustable
jaws, one pair to clamp on to the frame of the machine, say the base of the fork
stem, the other on to an adjustable sleeve in which the brake rod works.
The device is best described by reference to the accompanying drawings, of
which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a desirable form of clip with the adjustable
sleeve, the brake rod, blocks and spring being shown in dotted lines;
Figure 2 is a plan mainly in section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
The clip A is preferably made, as shown, of two pieces permanently joined by a
shouldered rivet A', and provided with two screw bolts A2 A3 for clamping the
clip on to the machine frame and the adjustable sleeve which it grips by the
jaws A A5 respectively.
A sleeve B, formed separately from the clip, is engaged by the jaws A5 controlled
by the screw bolt A³.
"The outside of the sleeve may if desired be roughened or corrugated to correspond
with roughnesses or corrugations on the inside of the clip jaws A5 as a precaution
against accidental slipping but this is found not to be necessary in practice or the
sleeve may be threaded to correspond with threads formed in the jaws.
The brake rod C works in the sleeve B, which may be adjusted vertically so as
to vary the travel of the brake block and so allowing same to be adjusted to correct
distance from tyre without interfering with tension on spring. The sleeve B is
retained in any position within its range of adjustment by tightening the screw A³
to cause the sleeve B to be firmly gripped by the jaws A5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The combination with a clip for the brake rod of a cycle or the like of a sleeve
adjustable endwise therein for the purpose described.
2. In cycle brake mechanism the employment of an adjustable sleeve such as B
for the purpose de-cribed.
3. In cycle brake mechanism the combination with a detachable brake sup-
porting clip for a cycle of a sleeve such as B, adjustable therein substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of August 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.