Improvements in Brakes and Supports for Bicycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brakes and Supports for Bicycles.
We, SIGMUND BACHMANN, Engineer, of 36, Guildford Street, Russell Square, in
the County of London, and HENRY SCHMARR, Photographer, of 4, Tottenham
Court Road, in the County of London, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention to be as follows:-
The brake is made of india rubber or leather and acts on the driving wheel.
It is fastened to the fork of the driving wheel by means of a clip and acts by
urning the right handle in the following manner:
On the brake is fixed a lever 8 inches in length; at the upper end of this lever
is fastened a whipcord, wire or string which is led along the bottom tube of
the frame underneath the bottom bracket as far as the front fork. Here it passes
over two small metal pulleys on the inner side of the front fork or else on the
outside of the same over one pulley on to the handle. On this there is an elevation
of a diameter of one inch and a half. Within this elevation a socket is fixed into
which the cord, wire or string on turning the handle is pulled respectively rolled
up. On the inside of the elevation there is on the bridle rod a dented curb of
steel fastened with a screw. Above this dented curb is a small snapper which is
fastened to the handle and has for its purpose in case of continued breaking to
avoid the continuous holding of the break after by turning the handle the snapper
has caught into the cogs of the dented curb and the break has acted until by a
small pressure with the finger upon the knob which is provided on the snapper it
is released and the handle by the force of the spring of the break is turned back.
The upright is made of a steel wire of about a quarter of inch in thickness
which is screwed on together with the break. When in use it stands on the ground
in an oblique position from the middle of the bicycle; when not in use it is
fastened to the fork of the driving wheel by a clip and is then almost invisible.
1001
1907
Improvements in Brakes and Supports for Bicycles.
SIGMUND BACHMANN, Engineer, of 36, Guildford Street, Russell Square, in
the County of London, and HENRY SCHMARR, c/o F. Porcher & Co., Artists &
Photographers, 4 & 5, Tottenham Court Road, London, W., do hereby declare the
[Price 8d】

page_text: 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:-
The brake d' is made of india rubber or leather and acts on the driving wheel.
It is fastened to the fork B of the driving wheel by means of a clip A with the
screws C and acts by turning the right handle K as follow:
On the brake is fixed a lever D 8 inches in length; the lever is fulcrumed on
the clip A at C by means of screws at the upper end of this lever is fastened a
whipcord, wire or string E, which. is led along the bottom tube B of the frame
underneath the bottom bracket F as far as the fork of the front wheel; here it
passes over two small metal puileys F on the inner side of the fork or else on the
outside of the same over one or two pulleys G on the handle K. On the handle K
is an elevation I of a diameter of 2 inches. Within this elevation a socket i is
fixed into which the cord, wire or string E on turning the handle K is pulled
respectively rolled up on the inside of the elevation i there is on the bridle rod H
a dented curb h of steel fastened with a screw. Above this dented curb h is a
small snapper L which is fastened to the handle K and has for its purpose in case
of continued breaking to avoid the continuous holding of the brake after by
turning the handle K the snapper L has caught into the cogs h of the dented curb I
and the brake has acted until by a small pressure with the finger upon the knob,
which is provided on the snapper L it is released and the handle K by the force
of the spring d of the brake is turned back.
The upright is made of a steel wire C and D of about a ¼ inch in thickness
which is fastened on together with the brake or in the same way on the fork A
of the driving wheel connected with a piece of steel B by be, and is pivoted at C.
When in use it stands on the ground in an oblique position the length of the
upright being adjusted by the screw d and fastened by the screw from the
middle of the bicycle, when not in use it is fastened close to the fork A of the
driving wheel; and is then almost invisible.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1) That the brake is fastened to the fork B of the driving wheel on bicycles;
and mouves around A when pulled with the handle K and acts on the back wheel d¹
by means of the lever D on which a cord, wire or string E is fastened and passes
through the pulleys F as far as the fork of the front wheel to the pulleys G on
the handle K; where fixed to the socket i; and by turning the handle K will
be rolled up as much as required for breaking.
2) The snapper L caught into the cogs of the dented curb i acts until it gets
a small pressure with a finger and the spring & will place the elevation, as well
as the dented curb h and the lever D in his original position.
3) The upright is fastened to the fork A by 62 on the driving wheel on bicycles;
and C can be extented by D in the length required, if the ground is not level
by the screw d, and can be screwed under the fork A by the screw to c¹, when
the bicycle is used.
Dated this Tenth day of May 1898.
HEINRICH SCHMARR,
For Self and co-Applicant.