Brakes – Vehicle – Velocipede
Patent
1996-12-09
1997-09-23
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Brakes
Vehicle
Velocipede
189 2417, 192 6R, 745941, B62L 102
Patent
active
056694679
ABSTRACT:
A bicycle brake assembly includes a caliper brake mechanism attached to a bicycle frame which has a bottom bracket through which an axle is rotatably received, an activating member fixedly mounted on the axle and having a tubular portion extending from one of two sides thereof wherein the tubular portion has a threaded portion defined in an outer periphery thereof, a casing having a hole defined therein for the activating member rotatably received therein and a ring threadedly engaged with the threaded portion of the activating member, the hole of the casing having a plurality of ratchet gears extending radially from an inner periphery thereof, the activating member having a plurality of ratchets extending therefrom to contact the ratchet gears, the casing having a lug extending radially from an outer periphery thereof and a brake cable connected between the lug and the caliper brake mechanism such that the caliper brake mechanism is activated by inversely rotating cranks attached to two ends of the axle.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4260044 (1981-04-01), Foster
patent: 4638890 (1987-01-01), Lohman
patent: 5027930 (1991-07-01), Reed
Lipka Pamela J.
Oberleitner Robert J.
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