AN IMPROVED BREAK FOR COMMON ROAD AND RAILWAY CARRIAGE WHEELS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE WHEELS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hayes, of the City of Gloucester, Builder and
Contractor, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BREAK FOR COMMON ROAD
AND RAILWAY CARRIAGE WHEELS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE WHEELS OF
Sealed the 13th July 1860, and dated the 13th January 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hayes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th January. 1860.
I, JOSEPH HAYES, of the City of Gloucester, Builder and Contractor,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BREAK
FOR COMMON ROAD AND RAILWAY CARRIAGE WHEELS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO
THE WHEELS OF MACHINERY FOR RAISING AND LOWERING WEIGHTS," to be as
follows:-
This improved break consists of two levers, on which are fixed the break
blocks, which are pressed against the wheels by the levers acting in a loose
box formed in a traversing nut, pressure being applied by a screw. The break
may be worked from the front, back, or side of the vehicle or machine, and
may be made to act upon the box or rim of the wheels. The screw works
perpendicularly or horizontally as the case may require.
15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Hayes, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th July 1860.
15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Hayes, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HAYES, of the City of Gloucester, Builder and Contractor, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Joseph Hayes, Her special licence that I, the said
Joseph Hayes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said Joseph Hayes, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Islo of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED BREAK FOR COMMON ROAD AND RAILWAY CARRIAGE
WHEELS APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE WHEELS OF MACHINERY FOR RAISING AND
LOWERING WEIGHTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Joseph Hayes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their bands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Hayes, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
This improved break consists of two levers, on which are fixed the break
blocks, which are pressed against the wheels by the levers acting in a loose
box formed in a traversing nut, pressure being applied by a screw or lover.
The break may be worked from the front, back, or side of the vehicle or
machine, and may be made to act upon the boss or rim of the wheels. The
screw works perpendicularly or horizontally as the case may require.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view in plan of the under side
of a cart frame with a break of my Invention applied to it. A, A, are levers
working about the points a, a, in the frame B. The inner ends of these levers
take into grooves or holes formed in a traversing nut C, through which a
screw D passes. The screw passes through guides E, E, in the frame B at
one end, and works in a socket F at the other. G is a handle for working
the screw; H, H, are break blocks on the ends of the levers A, A, for acting
against the wheels I, I. To apply the breaks, turn the screw D in such

page_text: manner that the inner ends of the levers A, A, are drawn outwards through
the travelling nut C, while the outer ends carrying the blocks H, HI, are forced
against tho flanges of the wheels I, I. To release the breaks, reverse the
motion of the screw.
Figure 2 shows in plan a modification of the arrangement just described.
In this case the break power is applied through a lever instead of by a screw,
and is particularly applicable to gigs, phatons, and like carriages. C is the
travelling nut, which is attached to a rod K, working in guides L, L, L; M is
a lever, having its fulcrum at N, one end of which lever passes through a slot
or hole formed in tho rod K, while the other works in a guide O. This
lever M is worked by the feet or hands of the driver, and when it is worked by
the latter carries a lever handle P, as shewn in Figure 3, which is a side
elevation of a dog cart, with the breaks applied, the spokes of the wheels being
removed in order to show the parts clearly. By raising or lowering the
handle P, the rod K acts on the levers A, A, as before, and thereby applies or
removes the break in the same manner as described with reference to
Figure 1.
Although I have shown this break as applicable only to carriages running
on common roads, yet it can be applied with equal facility to railway carriages
and to the regulating of the motion of wheels in machinery; and motion may
be imparted to the screw by means of bevil gear or levers from any required
position.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improved
break for common road and railway carriage wheels, applicable also to the
wheels of machinery for raising and lowering weights, constructed essentially
in the manner herein-before described, and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hayes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July, One thousand eight hundred
JOSEPH HAYES. (L.B.)