Rim brake

• US 3,314,504 A
• Filed: 01/11/1965
• Issued: 04/18/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Karl Altenburger
• Original Assignee: Karl Altenburger
• Inventors: KARL ALTENBURGER
• Application Number:
  US04/426,470
• Time in Patent Office: 827 Days
• US Class Current: 188/24.19
• CPC Class Codes: B62L 1/16 the axes being located intermediate the ends of the levers

Claims

1. RIM BRAKE, PARTICULARLY FOR BICYCLES AND THE LIKE, COMPRISING TWO LEVERS SWINGABLE ON SEPARATE BOLTS, EACH OF SAID LEVERS HAVING A FIRST ARM WHICH CARRIES A BRAKE BLOCK AND A SECOND ARM CROSSING THE CORRESPONDING SECOND ARM OF THE OTHER LEVER, SAID SECOND ARMS BEING CONNECTED TO A WIRE AND A SHEATH OF A CABLE FOR ACTUATING THE BRAKE, COUPLING MEANS FOR POSITIVELY COUPLING THE TWO LEVERS TO EACH OTHER AS TO THEIR PIVOTING IN THE MANNER OF MUTUAL APPROACH OF THE BRAKE BLOCKS AND SO THAT THEY ARE CONSTRAINED TO CARRY OUT SYMMETRICAL AND OPPOSING MOVEMENTS WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER, ONE OF SAID LEVERS HAVING A THIRD ARM ADJACENT THE SECOND ARM OF THE OTHER LEVER, SAID COUPLING MEANS INCLUDING AN OPEN DOWNWARDLY FACING CONTROL CAM AND A CAM FOLLOWER MEANS COOPERATING WITH SAID CAM, SAID CONTROL CAM AND SAID CAM FOLLOWER MEANS BEING ARRANGED ONE AT SAID THIRD ARM AND THE OTHER ONE AT SAID SECOND ARM ADJACENT THERETO, SAID CAM FOLLOWER MEANS BEING ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY IN A MEDIAN PLANE BETWEEN THE BOLTS HAVING SAID LEVERS PIVOTED THEREON, THE CONTROL CAM EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY AT RIGHT