A New or Improved Brake for Perambulators, Mail Carts, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date or Application, 19th Sept.,
1899
Comentado Connifiantion Loft 10th Luna 1000 Accented 21st July 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Brake for Perambulators, Mail Carts, and
the like.
I, JOSEPH ASPINALL, 56, Blackledge Street, Bolton, Inventor, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a new or improved brake for perambulators, mail
carts, and the like. Numerous accidents have occurred when perambulators,
mail carts, & the like have been left on an inclined surface owing to there
brake so
being no means for braking. In order to obviate this, I provide a
arranged as to be adapted to engage with the spokes of the wheel.
For the purpose of illustration, I will describe a convenient manner in which
I carry out my invention. At a suitable part of the body of the carriage
pro-
vide two sockets or brackets in which rods slide. The ends of these rods are
slotted or grooved for the purpose of engaging upon the spokes of the wheel.
These rods are pivotally attached to a lever which is in turn pivotally attached
to a suitable support upon the body of the carriage & is operated through the
medium of another lever also pivotally attached at a suitable part of the body of
the carriage, and adapted to be operated at or about the handle bar of the vehicle.
The parts are so arranged that upon moving the operating lever at or about the
handle of the vehicle in one direction the ends of the bars will be caused. to
engage with the spokes of the wheel, and so prevent their rotation, thus acting
as a brake; the releasing action being effected by returning the operating lever
to its initial position.
Dated this 19th day of September 1899.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Brake for Perambulators, Mail Carts, and
the like.
I, JOSEPH ASPINALL, 56, Blackledge Street, Bolton, Inventor, 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 consists of a new or improved brake for perambulators, mail
carts, and the like. Numerous accidents have occurred when perambulators
mail carts and the like have been left on an incline surface owing to there
being no means for braking. In order to obviate this, I provide a brake so
arranged as to be adapted to engage with the spokes of the wheel.

page_text: For the purposes of illustration, I will describe a convenient manner in which
I carry out my invention. At a suitable part of the body of the carriage I pro-
vide two sockets or brackets in which rods slide. The ends of these rods are
slotted or grooved for the purpose of engaging upon the spokes of the wheel.
These rods are pivotally attached to a lever which is in turn pivotally attached
to a suitable support upon the body of the carriage and is operated through the
medium of another lever also pivotally attached at a suitable part of the body of
the carriage, and adapted to be operated at or about the handle bar of the vehicle.
The parts are so arranged that upon moving the operating lever at or about the
handle of the vehicle in one direction the ends of the bars will be caused to
engage with the spokes of the wheel, and so prevent their rotation, thus acting
as a brake; the releasing action being effected by returning the operating lever
to its initial position.
For purposes of illustration, I will now refer to the annexed drawings in
which:
Figure 1 is a side elevation shewing my invention fitted to a perambulator.
Figure 2, part plan view from bottom of the perambulator shewing my inven-
tion attached thereto the support springs being removed for the purpose of clear-
ness, the dotted lines indicating the bearing axles or spindles.
a and b are two sockets or brackets in which the rods & slide, the ends of these
rods are slotted or grooved at preferably of the shape shewn for the purpose
of engaging upon the spokes of the wheel. These rods e are pivotally attached
to a lever e which is in turn pivotally attached at f to the body of the carriage,
g is a lever which is pivotally attached at to the body of the carriage, and is pro-
vided with a slot i which engages with a pin upon the lever e
pivoted at to the body of the carriage, the pin on the end of which engages
with the slot m in the lever g.
kis a lever
This lever terminates at or about the handle bar
of the perambulator. The parts are so arranged as will be seen that upon moving
the operating lever at or about the handle of the vehicle in one direction, the
ends d of the bars will be caused to engage with the spokes n of the wheel,
and so prevent the rotation of the wheels, thus acting as a brake, the releasing
action being effected by turning the operating lever k to its initial position.
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 brakes for perambulators mail carts and the like, the combined construc-
tion and arrangement of the various parts, substantially as described and illus-
trated herein and for the purpose set forth.
2. In brakes for perambulators, mail carts and the like, in combination two
arms sliding in socket pieces or guides, and having slotted ends for engagement
with the spokes of the wheel, the other ends of said arms being pivotally connected
to a lever, which is in turn at or about its centre pivoted to the body of the
vehicle; a lever also pivoted to the body of the vehicle, and having at one end
a slot adapted to engage upon a pin carried upon a pivoted lever operating the
slotted arms aforesaid; an operating lever pivotally attached to the body of the
vehicle, and at one end engaging with the slotted lever aforesaid, the other end
terminating at or about the handle bar of the vehicle substantially as described
and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 19th day of Tune 1000