Improvements in Brakes for Cycles and like Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brakes for Cycles and like Vehicles.
I, EUGENE HERMET of 147 Avenue Malakoff Paris in the French Republic,
Cycle Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in brakes for cycles and like vehicles the
object being to provide an improved form of brake which shall be free from
the objections so frequently urged against the ordinary spoon brake especially when
the latter is employed upon a machine fitted with pneumatic tyres.
To this end my invention consists in employing for the brake a brush of some
suitable form and material such brush being preferably mounted in a manner
similar to the ordinary spoon brake. These brushes may be either flat in which
case they are preferably provided with means for reversing them when worn on one
side or they may be circular and be allowed to rotate slightly on a spindle.
The material employed may be bristles, fibre, or the like or rubber as in the case
of the rubber brushes used at the present time for other purposes.
Dated this 91st day of November 1892.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Associate Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brakes for Cycles and like Vehicles.
I, EUGENE HERMET of 147 Avenue Malakoff Paris in the French Republic
Cycle Maker, 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 improvements in brakes for cycles and like vehicles the
object being to provide an improved form of brake which shall be free from
the objections so frequently urged against the ordinary spoon brake especially when
the latter is employed upon a machine fitted with pneumatic tyres.
To this end my invention consists in employing for the brake a brush of some
suitable form and material such brush being preferably mounted in a manner
similar to the ordinary spoon brake. These brushes may be either flat in which
case they are preferably provided with means for reversing them when worn on one
side or they may be circular and be allowed to rotate slightly on a spindle.
The material employed may be bristles, fibre, or the like, or rubber as in the
case of the rubber brushes used at the present time for other purposes.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 shows a portion of a cycle fitted with a flat brush brake.
Figure 2 is a cross section of the brush on an enlarged scale.
Figure 3 is a plan of same.
Figure 4 shews a portion of a cycle fitted with a circular brush and
Figure 5 is a sectional plan of same on an enlarged scale.
Referring to Figures 1, 2 and 3 it will be seen that the wheel A is carried in the
usual manner by the fork B the upper part of said fork carrying in suitable
brackets the brake rod C which in turn is screwed or otherwise secured to a
plate D the grooves G in the sides of which are adapted to receive the tongues G¹
of the brush back H which is provided with the brush portion J.
The back H is prevented from moving in the plate D by means of the screw L.
To enable the brush to be reversed when worn away as it will be just at the

page_text: point F (Figure 1) a second hole to receive the screw L is formed in the back H
at the opposite end to the hole which the screw occupies when in the position shown
in the drawing.
In Figures 4 and 5 the circular brush D it will be seen is carried by a fork E
which is pivoted at F to a collar on the upper part of the fork B the brake rod C
being attached to the fork E at a convenient point for enabling the brush brake to
be raised or lowered.
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. As brakes for cycles brushes of suitable form and material substantially as
described.
2. The improvements in brakes for cycles and like vehicles substantially as
described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 11th day of August 1893.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.