US Patent: 213,378
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Car-Brake
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Patentee:
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Ludwig Becker (exact or similar names) - Vienna, Austria |
Manufacturer: |
Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Applied: |
Nov. 18, 1878 |
Granted: |
Mar. 18, 1879 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
Claim:
This invention relates to apparatus for retarding the speed of or stopping railway-trains making use of the vis viva of the rolling stock in motion for automatically bringing the brake apparatus into action, and to improved means for conveying power produced at any particular part of the railway-train to other parts of the train, in order to there act either on the brake apparatus directly, or indirectly on the rest of the chain or other device for transmitting power. |
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