Acting Brake for Wagons and other Carriages Drawn by Animals.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1893--Accepted, 16th Dec.,
1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Self Acting Brake for Wagons and other Carriages Drawn by
Animals.
I OCTAVIUS DIXIE DEACON of 150 Leadenhall Street in the City of London
Advertising Contractor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention has reference to breaks for ordinary road vehicles drawn by
animals such breaks being operated by the pressure backwards of the animal or
animals drawing such vehicles and without the assistance of the driver or other person
in putting such breaks into action.
The manner in which the said breaks come into action will be understood by the
following statement-A brake bar and brake blocks as in an ordinary foot brake
are attached to the back of the cart, carriage or wagon, and are connected by a
metal rod passing under the body of the vehicle and continued along and under
the pole, to a point near the chain end of the pole, where it is connected with a
pivoted lever working on the pole or through the pole. On the upper end of this
lever is fixed a metal ring or rings to which are attached the collar chains of the
horses' or other animals' harness. The said invention acts in such manner that
when the horses or other animals drawing the vehicle push back, the brake blocks
are drawn against the wheels, and when the animals draw forward the brake is
released and rejected by means of a rejecting spiral spring around the connecting
rod, held in place by a metal collar on the said rod under the pole or vehicle,
and working against a staple driven into the pole, such staple serving the further
purpose of holding the connecting rod of the brake in position. And further the
said invention admits of a foot brake being worked in conjunction with it, by
connecting a foot lever to the rod running under the pole. The automatic brake
can also be applied to a shaft cart, by an arrangement of the breech strap of the
harness in such manner that when the animal pushes back the brake is forced on to
the cart wheels.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Self Acting Brake for Wagons and other Carriages Drawn by
Animals.
I OCTAVIUS DIXIE DEACON of 150 Leadenhall Street in the City of London,
(a communication from J. D. Howell of Knysna in the Cape Colony) do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The invention consists in the application to vehicles drawn by horses or other
animals of an arrangement by which a break block and bar similar to the ordinary
foot break and bar in general use are attached to a cart or other vehicle at the
back thereof and connected by a metal rod G held in position for working by one
or more staples under the pole of the vehicle, this rod continues under the body of
the cart or carriage and under the pole to a point two to four inches from the
bugle end thereof, at this point the rod is connected with a lever A passing
through the pole B and fixed in it by a thumb screw or other screw. Through
this lever above the pole is fixed a metal ring D to which are attached the pole

page_text: pieces of the harness of the horses or other animals harnessed to the cart or
vehicle as wheelers. The said invention acts in such manner that when the
horses or other animals so attached to the cart hold back, the break comes into
action and arrests the progress of the vehicle, and when the horses or other
animals pull forward the break is released and rejected by a rejecting spiral
spring or other form of spring fixed around the connecting rod; or the spring
may be fixed to the vehicle and act on the connecting rod independently of it.
The spiral spring which I adopt by preference is held in place by a metal collar
on the connecting rod under the pole or the vehicle, and works against a staple
driven into the pole or into the vehicle, such staple serving the further purpose of
holding the connecting rod of the break in position. The said invention acts in
the same manner if the pole piece of one horse, or other animal, only, is attached
to the ring above described in the lever, the pole piece of the harness of the other
animal being attached to the bugle of the pole or to a ring on the pole uncon-
nected with the break, so that the break may be brought into action by the joint
power of both horses harnessed next to the cart or by one of them only.
And further, the said invention admits of the foot break being worked in
conjunction with it by connecting a foot lever to the break rod running under the
vehicle.
The said invention is also applicable to any shafted vehicle, the break being in
that case actuated by the pressure of the animal upon the breech band when
backing against it in going down hill, the said breech band being continued through
a hole, staple, or ring attached to the shaft and the said continuation being joined
to either a chain rope or rod connected with the break block, thus the animal when
resisting the pressure of the load against his rear and backing against the breech
strap draws the break-block against the wheel and checks its motion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1stly. The invention of an entirely novel self acting break, actuated by the
resistance of the horse or other animal to the pressure of the weight of the load
when descending an incline.
2ndly. An arrangement of a foot or hand lever by which such break can be put
on, released, and put out of gear by the driver, at will, without leaving his seat, as
with ordinary breaks now in use.
3rdly. An arrangement by which the break is brought into action in any shaft
cart by the resistance of the horse to the pressure of the load such resistance
putting the said break into operation by the horse's pressure upon the breech band.
November 11th 1893.
OCTS. D. DEACON.