US Patent: 766,744
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| Vehicle Brake
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Patentee:
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| Marquis J. Todd (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, Erie County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Oct. 10, 1903 |
| Granted: |
Aug. 02, 1904 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Buffalo Pitts Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to that class of vehicle brake mechanisms having brake-shoes designed to move in unison and concentrically with the pivoted axle, whereby the parallelism of their plane to that of the axle may be maintained and the brake-shoes applied equally independently of the angle of the axle with relation to the vehicle-body, as when turning the vehicle around a curve.
Claim:
In a vehicle having a stationary bed and a swinging axle, rigid supports secured to such bed, such supports having horizontal convergent portions disposed to constitute approximately chords of arcs of a circle concentric with that of the swinging axle, hangers movably suspended from such supports, brake-shoes carried by such hangers, means for moving the hangers on their supports to maintain the shoes in a plane parallel to the axle, and means for applying and releasing the shoes. |
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