Brake device

Claim 1

A BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE FOR A WHEELED VEHICLE HAVING A FRAME STRUCTURE AND FIRST AND SECOND WHEEL BRAKES, SAID BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE COMPRISING A SHAFT MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME STRUCTURE AND EXTENDING TRANSVERSE TO THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF SAID VEHICLE, A PAIR OF GENERALLY HORIZONTAL BRAKE LEVERS JOURNALLED ON SAID SHAFT FOR VERTICAL SWINGING MOVEMENT BETWEEN A RAISED BRAKE RELEASE POSITION AND A LOWERED BRAKE ACTUATING POSITION, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED THE FIRST OF SAID PAIR OF LEVERS TO SAID FIRST WHEEL BRAKE, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING THE SECOND OF SAID PAIR OF LEVERS TO SAID SECOND WHEEL BRAKE, A FIRST ARM MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST LEVER AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM TOWARD THE OPERATOR OF THE VEHICLE, A SECOND ARM MOUNTED ON SAID SECOND LEVER AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM TOWARD THE OPERATOR OF THE VEHICLE PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST ARM, A PAIR OF BRAKE PEDALS RESPECTIVELY MOUNTED ON THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND ARMS, SAID PEDALS BEING SPACED APART AND LYING IN A COMMON PLANE WHEN SAID LEVERS ARE IN BRAKE RELEASE POSITION, A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL MASTER BRAKE LEVER JOURNALLED ON SAID SHAFT BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND LEVERS FOR VERTICAL SWINGING MOVEMENT BETWEEN A RAISED RELEASE POSITION AND LOWERED ACTUATING POSITION, SAID FIRST AND SECOND LEVERS AND SAID MASTER BRAKE LEVER LYING IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME GENERALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE, A CROSS BAR DISPOSED ABOVE SAID LEVERS AND EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY ACROSS ALL THREE LEVERS, MEANS MOUNTING SAID CROSS BAR ON SAID MASTER BRAKE LEVER FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT TRANSVERSE TO THE AXIS OF THE MASTER BRAKE LEVER A FIXED PREDETERMINED DISTANCE FROM SAID SHAFT WHEREBY SAID CROSS BAR ENGAGES WITH EQUAL FORCE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ACTUATES SAID FIRST AND SECOND BRAKE LEVERS UPON MOVEMENT OF SAID MASTER BRAKE LEVER FROM RELEASE POSITION TOWARD ACTUATING POSITION, A MASTER BRAKE ARM MOUNTED ON SAID MASTER BRAKE LEVER AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM PARALLEL TO AND BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND BRAKE ARMS, SAID MASTER BRAKE ARM EXTENDING FARTHER ABOVE SAID BRAKE LEVERS THAN SAID FIRST AND SECOND BRAKE ARMS, A MASTER BRAKE PEDAL MOUNTED ON THE UPPER END OF SAID MASTER BRAKE ARM WHEREBY SAID MASTER BRAKE PEDAL IS DISPOSED CLOSER TO THE OPERATOR OF THE VEHICLE THAN SAID PAIR OF PEDALS, SAID MASTER BRAKE ARM HAVING A SERIES OF RATCHET TEETH FORMED THRERIN, A LOCKING PAWL, PIVOT MEANS MOUNTING SAID LOCKING PAWL ON SAID FRAME STRUCTURE IN POSITION TO ENGAGE SAID TEETH AND LOCK SAID MASTER BRAKE PEDAL IN ACTUATING POSITION FOR PARKING SAID VEHICLE, AND A MANUALLY OPERABLE CONTROL MEMBER MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME STRUCTURE AND ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID PAWL TO MOVE AND HOLD SAID PAWL OUT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID RATCHET TEETH DURING OPERATION OF SAID VEHICLE.