Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1897
I, WALTER BENTLEY MARLING, of Clanna, Lydney, in the County of Gloucester,
Colonel Commanding 4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, Justice of the
Peace, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A brake for a bicycle is usually arranged so as to act on the tyre of the wheel
often damaging it and when it is applied to a pneumatic tyre the brake is often
rendered useless by the collapse of the tyre. My invention relates to means of
braking a bicycle, by causing the brake to act directly on the ground and the
appliance for this purpose is so arranged that it can be made to form a foot for the
bicycle, thus giving it stability when it is at rest or when the rider is mounting.
For this purpose I attach to a convenient part of the framework of the bicycle
a guide in which a rod can slide obliquely outwards and downwards this rod
having at its end a brake block or shoe and being held up by a spring It is con-
nected to the brake lever, on the steering handle by a cord or wire passing over a
pulley or attached to a lever pivotted on the guide and it has also an outwardly
projecting foot rest. When it is desired to apply the brake the rider pressing his
hand brake lever, or placing his foot on the foot rest above mentioned causes the
rod to move downwards in opposition to the spring until the brake block is forced
into contact with the ground with such pressure as may be necessary and on
releasing the brake lever or removing his foot, the brake is automatically raised
from the ground by the spring. When it is desired to use this appliance to give
stability to the machine the sliding rod is extended from its slide until the brake
block comes into contact with the ground and is held in that position by a suitable
catch.
Instead of arranging the brake block to slide in a guide it may be fixed on an
arm pivotted on a convenient part of the framing or on a bracket attached to the
framing, and held up by a spring. Or the arm carrying the brake block may
itself be a spring holding the brake block normally off the ground.
Dated this 27th day of May 1897
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, WALTER BENTLEY MARLING, of Clanna, Lydney, in the County of Gloucester,
Colonel Commanding 4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, Justice of the
35 Peace, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
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page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
A brake for a bicycle is usually arranged so as to act on the tyre of the wheel
often damaging it and when it is applied to a pneumatic tyre the brake is often
rendered useless by the collapse of the tyre. My invention relates to means of
braking a bicycle, by causing the brake to act directly on the ground and the
appliance for this purpose is so arranged that it can be made to form a foot for the
bicycle, thus giving it stability when it is at rest or when the rider is mounting.
For this purpose I apply a brake to a bicycle as I shall describe referring to the
accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 is a front view and Fig. 3 is a rear view of a bicycle
having applied to it a brake according to my invention.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section, Fig. 5 is a side view and Fig. 6 a rear view of the
lower part of the frame for carrying the brake.
Fig. 7 is a side view and Fig. 8 is a rear view of the same with the brake
depressed.
Fig. 9 is a side view shewing a modification.
Similar reference letters are employed to denote corresponding parts in the
several figures.
To the frame of the bicycle I attach a bent tube A steadied by a stay tube S;
the lower part of A is straight and has fitted to slide within it a tube B to the
lower end of which is attached a spring C and brake block 1). A helical spring E
has its upper end attached to a pin on the outer tube A and its lower end attached
to a pin on the inner tube B, this spring drawing up the brake except when it is
forcibly depressed. To one side of the inner tube B is attached a stud F which
projects through and can move along a slot in the side of the outer tube A, and to
this stud is hinged a foot rest G which can turn on the hinge in an approximately
horizontal plane. At the lower end of the tube A is mounted a pulley H round
which passes a cord h having its one end attached to a pin h¹ which is an extension
of the stud F through a slot in the side of the outer tube A and its other end
attached to one arm of a brake lever K which is fulcrumed on the frame at k and
has its other arm freely jointed to the short arm of the hand lever L which is
fulcrumed on the frame at 7. On pressing the lever L towards the steering bar
thereby drawing up the cord / or on pressing down the foot rest G, the brake
block D is pressed upon the ground, and on releasing the lever L or releasing the
pressure on the foot rest G the spring E draws up the brake block.
When the brake is depressed as shewn in Figs. 7 and 8 the foot rest G can be
turned on its hinge and inserted in the slot of a lock M which is fixed on the
tube A. In this position the foot rest can be locked, the brake blocks being thus
held down upon the ground forming a foot for the bicycle and preventing it from
being easily removed by a person who has not a key for the lock M.
As shewn in Fig. 9 a lever N fulcrumed on the lower end of the tube A carries
the brake block D which is held up by the spring E, and may be depressed by the
foot or by the hand brake lever raising the cord h attached to the lever N. To
this lever is attached a segment P which works through the slot of a lock M by
which the brake can be locked in its depressed position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a brake for a bicycle the combination of a vertically moving brake block
and means of depressing it so as to make it bear upon the ground, substantially
as described.
2. In combination with a brake block, a guiding tube to which it is attached,
this tube being held up by a spring but capable of being depressed by a pull
worked by the hand brake lever, or by the foot and rest attached to the guide tube,
substantially as described.

page_text: 3. In combination with a hinged foot rest a lock having a slot adapted to
receive and retain the foot rest, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
4. The modified brake arrangement, substantially as described with reference
to Fig. 9.
Dated this 11th day of February 1898
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the 'Applicant.