Year: 1897

page_text: I, HEINRICH ANTEPOTH, Merchant, at Hamburg, Mattentwiete 27, in Germany, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of the present invention is a device, applicable to bicycles by means of
which a brake can be actuated both by hand and by foot, of which the following is a
specification; and of the annexed drawings
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, natural size, partially in cross-section,
Fig. 2 is an elevation from the line of Fig. 1 downwards.
Fig. 3 shows how the brake is actuated by hand.
Fig. 4, 5 and 6 shows how the hand-brake is secured and thus rendered
unavailable.
The same letters in the different drawings refer to identical parts.
The hand-brake is arranged between the fore-fork a, embracing the fore- and
guide-wheel b, the brake passing by means of a rod d through the tube of the frame
and through the guide-bar c and terminating above in a button (f) which will
actuate the brake when pressed downwards.
The brake (c) is maintained drawn upwards by a hand-spring g embracing the bar d
and catching below the pin h.
The band-spring is attached by means of a coupling ; to a shell i embracing the
middle of the fork a¹, the going through-end g¹ being also bent into a second spring.
This second spring g¹ keeps back a brake k, fitted rotatory in a jutting out i¹ of the
shell and connected with a tread-brake k¹ angularly fitted, which when actuated
by a foot, will cause the brake k to take the position, as shown by dotted lines
in Fig. 1.
Both brakes are thus kept back by the same blade-spring, fixed in their middle and
forming the two parts g and g¹.
The bar d contains in its upper part a rotatory extension d', which, passing through
the guide-bar, terminates in a button f; a block 1 serving as guide: this guide being
moreover provided with a groove m for the pin m² of the bar d¹. The movement
necessary for braking corresponds with the length of the guide in such a way as to
cause the pin m¹, the brake ċ being actuated upon, to be disengaged under the guidel
and to find resistance below the guide by turning the button f and the upper part of
the bar d¹, thus pressing down the brake c.
A loop f¹ connected with the button f will then exactly correspond with the
loop f2, fixed to the guide-bar, so that by a padlock Fig. 5, with its loop passed
through the opening, the fore-wheel of the bicycle will be rendered unavailable and
an unauthorized use of the machine prevented.
Dated Hamburg. 18th of October 1897.

page_text: I, HEINRICH ANTEPOTH, Merchant, at Hamburg, Mattentwiete 27, in Germany,
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 :-
The object of the present invention is a device applicable to bicycles by means of
which a brake can be actuated both by hand and by foot, of which the following is a
complete specification and of the drawings, filed with the provisional specification.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, natural size, partially in cross-section.
Fig. 2 is an elevation from the line xx of Fig. 1 downwards.
Fig. 3 shows how the brake is actuated by hand.
Fig. 4, 5 and 6 shows how the hand-brake is secured and thus rendered
unavailable.
The same letters in the different drawings refer to identical parts. The hand-
brake is arranged between the fore-fork a embracing the fore- and guide-wheel b
the brake passing by means of a rod d through the tube of the frame and through
the guide-bar e and terminating above in a button f which will actuate the brake
when pressed downwards.
The brake c is maintained drawn upwards by a hand-spring 9 embracing the bar d
and catching below the pin h.
The hand-spring is attached by means of a coupling ; to a shell i embracing the
middle of the fork a¹ the going through end g¹ being also bent into a second spring.
This second spring g¹ keeps back a brake k fitted rotatory in a jutting out of the
shell and connected with a tread-brake k¹ angularly fitted, which, when actuated by
a foot, will cause the brake k to take the position as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.
Both brakes are thus kept back by the same blade-spring fixed in their middle and
forming the two parts g and g¹.
The bar & contains in its upper part a rotatory extension d¹ which passing through
the guide-bar terminates in a button f a block 1 serving as guide; this guide being
moreover provided with a groove m for the pin m¹ of the bar d'. The movement
necessary for braking corresponds with the length of the guide 7 in such a way as to
cause the pin m³, the brake c being actuated upon, to be disengaged under the guide l,
and to find resistance below the guide by turning the button f and the upper part of
the bar d', thus pressing down the brake c.
A loop connected with the button f will then exactly correspond with the loop f
fixed to the guide-bar, so that by a padlock, Fig. 5, with its loop passed through the
opening the fore-wheel of the bicycle will be rendered unavailable and an
unauthorized use of the machine prevented.
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 I
claim is :-
1. An arrangement applicable to bicycles in which the brake, actuated by hand, c
has its guide within the guide-bar, consisting in the fitting of a hand-spring g which
by means of its backward elastic part g₁ holds back a foot-brake k operating
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth in the foregoing statement.
2. An arrangement applicable to bicycles fitted with brake-rods located in the
guide-bar, of a rotatory top-part d', of a guide and of a pin m¹ sliding in a groove
of same m, which the brake c being actuated upon and the button f turned round

page_text: will keep the brake immoveable, in connection with the loop.f¹ and exactly mong
one upon the other in this position operating substantially as described and for the
purpose set forth in the foregoing statement.
CARL O. LANGE,
Agent for Applicant.