An Adjustable Foot Rest and Brake Combined for Velocipedes and other like Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Foot Rest and Brake Combined for Velocipedes
and other like Vehicles.
WILLIAM RIGBY, Stonemason, 27, Eccleston Street, Prescot, in the County of
Lancashire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved combined foot rest and brake for
velocipedes and other like vehicles the size shape and method of attaching or
adjusting same to a velocipede or other like vehicle being shewn in the accompany-
ing drawings.
Figure 1 is a full size drawing of the combined foot rest and brake.
Figure 2 is a front view of same fixed in position and Figure 3 is a side view.
My combined foot rest and brake is cut out of or otherwise manufactured from
highly tempered steel or other metal similar in shape to the size and shape
shewn in Figure 1 being rounded curved or otherwise worked to form springs at
the points A.
The combined foot rest and brake is fixed or adjusted to the front fork of a
velocipede or other like vehicle by spring clips B secured by bolts C the plate E D
and D being held by the springs A slightly above the tyre or upper surface of the
front wheel of the velocipede or other like vehicle.
The serried portion E of the plate ED and D' may be used as a rest for the
feet of the rider and by depressing the plate ED with the feet I will grip the
tyre or outer surface of the wheel and so form the brake. The pressure of the
feet being withdrawn the plate E D and D' springs back at A and releases the
wheel.
Dated this Fifteenth day of October 1898.
An Adjustable Foot Rest and Brake Combined for Velocipedes
and other like Vehicles.
WILLIAM RIGBY, Stone Mason, 27, Eccleston Street, Prescot, in the County of
Lancaster, 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 a new or improved combined foot rest and brake for
velocipedes and other like vehicles the size shape and method of attaching or

page_text: adjusting same to a velocipede or other like vehicle being shewn in the drawings
filed with my Provisional Specification numbered 21794 dated 17th October 1898.
Figure 1 in the drawings is a full size drawing of the combined foot rest
and brake.
Figure 2 is a front view of same fixed in position and Figure 3 is a side view.
The combined foot rest and brake is cut out of or otherwise manufactured from
highly tempered steel or other suitable metal similar in size and shape to Figure 1
Sheet 1 of the drawings and rounded curved or otherwise worked to form natural
springs at the points A.
The combined foot rest and brake is fixed or adjusted to the front fork of a
velocipede or other like vehicle by spring clips B secured by bolts C the plate E, D,
and being held slightly above the tyre or upper surface of the front wheel of
the velocipede or other like vehicle by the natural springs A.
The serried portion E of the plate E, D, and D¹ may be used as a rest for the
feet of the rider and by depressing the plate E, D, D¹ with the feet I will rest
upon or come in contact with the tyre or outer surface of the front wheel of the
velocipede or other like vehicle and so form a brake. The pressure of the feet
being withdrawn the plate E, D and D springs back at A to its first position and
releases the wheel.
The power of the brake may be increased by attaching a pad made from india
rubber or leather or other suitable material to the under surface of 1)' where D'
comes in contact with the tyre or outer surface of the wheel.
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. A new or improved foot rest and brake combined for velocipedes and other
like vehicles substantially as herein set forth.
2. A combined foot rest and brake capable of adjustment by spring clips to the
front forks of a velocipede or other like vehicle.
3. A combined foot rest and brake for velocipedes and other like vehicles working
or acting upon natural springs and applied by the feet of the rider.
Dated this Twelfth day of December One thousand eight hundred and ninety
eight
WILLIAM RIGBY.