Bruton’s English Patent. Provisional specification. No. 208. January 18, 1879.
IMPARTING MOTION TO VELOCIPEDES, &c.
(This Invention received Provisioned Protection only.)
“Edward George Bruton, of No. 1, Park Crescent, Oxford. ‘Certain Improvements in the Form and Method of Imparting Motion to Velocipedes, Carriages, or other Vehicles.’
“This Invention consists of a new form of imparting motion to velocipedes or other vehicles having three or more wheels, which wheels shall receive their motion from a traversing platform, to which motion is imparted by walking or running thereon; the platform consisting of endless bands, of a substance offering resistance to the foot, passing over rollers suspended from the said vehicle, which rollers, by pulley-bands, chains, or other means, put in motion certain wheels of the said vehicle and thereby propel the same.”
We have heard the tricycle compared to a tread-mill by unkind and wearied riders, but it has remained for our English brother, Mr. Bruton, to make the comparison a veritable fact.
F. Langmaak and P. Streiff, of San Francisco. Velocipede. No. 228,908 Patented June 15, 1880.