Improved Apparatus for Stopping Omnibuses and other like Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
Improved Apparatus for Stopping Omnibuses and other like
Vehicles.
I, HARRIET CARMONT, of Helmsdale, Kingston on Thames, Surrey, Gentle-
woman do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus for stopping omnibuses and other
like vehicles.
To carry my invention into practice, I hang a frame on the axle and affix helical.
springs to it. The opposite ends of these springs are connected by ropes or straps
to drums which can be caused to rotate for putting tension on the springs when a
"spud" is depressed by the foot of an attendant.
The lower end of the spud either direct, or through an intervening lever has a
pulley or "jockey" and the rope or strap on which it acts is led around or partly
around other pullies, one of them having a paul to drop into the teeth of a ratchet
wheel affixed to the hub of the bus wheel and so effecting the 'pull upon the
springs.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for H. Carmont.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Stopping Omnibuses and other like
Vehicles.
I, HARRIET CARMONT, of Helmsdale, Kingston on Thames, Surrey, Gentle-
woman, 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:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus for stopping omnibuses, and other
like vehicles.
The annexed drawings show my invention.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of an omnibus with my break gear.
Figure 2 a sectional plan of a wheel.
Figure 3 is a part elevation of a tram car with my break gear in duplicate for
operation from either end.
Figure 4 is an under plan. of the car with one gear in section to show the position
of internal ratchet wheel.
"
To carry my invention into practice, I hang a frame A from the body of a
vehicle, and also spring B, the opposite end of this spring is connected by a rope
or strap C to a drum E which can be caused to rotate for putting tension on the
spring B when a spud" F is depressed by the foot of an attendant. The lower
end of the "spud "Feither direct, or through an intervening lever G has a pulley
or "jockey" H, and the rope or strap C on which it acts is led around, or partly
around other pullies I, J, and has its ends fixed to pulley E.
The onward motion of the main wheel N by the system of winding adopted,
causes the pulley E to rotate in a reverse direction to the wheel N, and the
spring B to be compressed. The pulley E by such movement carries the paul
over the ratchet L until the wheel is pulled up by the spring B.
The spring thus compressed by the winding action of the straps or ropes C
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page_text: around the drum E and pulley J serves to gradually bring the vehicle to a
standstill.
The pullies J, E, are fast and loose respectively ie, the pulley J is fixed to the
hub or axle of the main bearing wheel N, and the pulley E free, so that it can
rotate in one direction by the pull of the cord C while the pulley J rotates in the
opposite direction under the motion of the vehicle, but when the "
spud "Fis
released, the spring B by its rebound pulls the pulley E round and through the
ratchet wheel L, and paul K pulls the pulley J and the wheel N in the same
direction to move the vehicle forward, or to assist the horses in getting their first
start with the load.
T
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The appliances and their method of action for break purposes through the
intervention of a "jockey" pulley, as set forth and arranged substantially as
shown in the annexed drawings.
2. In an apparatus for stopping busses, and like vehicles, the employment of fast
and loose pullies with cords or straps, so wrapped that said pullies rotate in reverse
directions when putting tension on spring, and both move in the same direction on
release of the spring, as described.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Harriet Carmont.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Harriet Carmont.