Improvements relating to Brakes for Velocipedes and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1900-Accepted, 28th July, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Brakes for Velocipedes and the like.
I, WILLIAM CHATER LEA, of 116 to 120, Golden Lane, in the County of
London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to rim-brakes and comprises the improvements herein-
after indicated.
In carrying out my invention I adjustably and removably mount two shoes,
having vulcanized fibre or like blocks, upon the extremities of a "horse-shoe."
One method of mounting the shoes is to provide each of them with a slotted
lug through which they are each connected by a bolt and nut to the said horse-
shoe. In this way they may be easily removed to allow the wheel or tyre io be
taken from the machine. The horse-shoe is pivotally connected through two
link-pieces-one on each side-to two lugs formed on, or attached to, the crown-
head of the machine.
A connecting rod extends from the horse-shoe to the brake lever on the handle-
bar of the machine, and upon the said lever being operated the connecting rod
is raised, against the resistance of a suitable spring. The horse-shoe is there-
upon correspondingly raised until the blocks of its shoes bear upon the wheel
rim. The link-pieces, hereinbefore referred to, retain the horse-shoe, in position.
Dated this 26th day of September 1899.
A. F. SPOONER,
323, High Holborn, London, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Brakes for Velocipedes and the like.
I, WILLIAM CHATER LEA, of 116 to 120, Golden Lane, in the County of
London, 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:-
My invention relates to rim-brakes and comprises the improvements herein-
after indicated.
The accompanying drawings show by way of example how my invention may
be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 shows in face view, and Figure 2 in side elevation, part of the front
of a velocipede.
Figure 3 is a sectional plan on the line A-B Figure 2 drawn to an enlarged
scale.
Die Q17

page_text: Figures 4, 5 and 6 are details hereinafter more fully referred to.
In the drawings a shows the handle-bar; the brake lever; the telescopic
connecting rod; d the crown; e the front forks, and f part of the mud-guard
of a velocipede.
In carrying out my invention I adjustably and removably mount two shoes g,
having vulcanized fibre or like blocks h, upon the extremities of a "horse-
shoe i. One method of mounting the shoes g is to provide each of them with
a slotted lug (as shown in Figure 6) through which they are each connected
by a bolt and nut m to the said horse-shoe i. In this way they may be easily
removed to allow the wheel or tyre to be taken from the machine. Alter-
natively the extremities of the horse-shoe may be slotted as shown in Figures 4
and 5. The horse-shoe is pivotally connected through two link-pieces n-one
on each side to two lugs which may either be formed on, or secured to, the
fork crown itself, or a band-clamp o attached to the down-stem p at or near
the crown-head d of the machine as shown in the drawings. 7 is a mud-guard
bracket mounted on the bolt r of the band clamp o.
Upon the brake lever b being operated, the connecting rod is raised, against the
resistance of a suitable spring s. The horse-shoe i is thereupon correspondingly
raised until the blocks of its shoes g bear upon the wheel rim. The link-
pieces n, herein before referred to, retain the horse-shoe in 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 a velocipede rim brake, the combination, with a horse-shoe, of adjustably
and removably mounted brake shoes substantially as set forth.
2. In a velocipede rim brake, the brake shoes with slotted lugs adjustably
and removably connected to the horse-shoe i by bolts and nuts m substantially
as set forth.
3. In a velocipede rim brake, the combination with a horse-shoe and adjust-
ably and removably mounted brake shoes, of link pieces extending between the
horse-shoe and lugs formed on or secured to the fork crown or a band clamp
attached to the down stem or equivalent part of the machine substantially as
set forth.
4. The velocipede rim brake substantially as described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
A. F. SPOONER,
323, High Holborn, London, Agent for the Applicant.