TOC ? new departure hub

[4scuda]

This hub came off of a wood wheel bike that looks turn of century by everything but the fact it has a coaster brake. When did coaster brakes start? I haven’t seen a brake arm like this before. If I counted right it had 20 spokes.

 

[Rustngrease]

They were playing with coaster breaks late 1890s, these casted break arm hubs are cool, I'm sure someone else here knows better than I but I think those are 1903ish

 

[lgrinnings]

Tons of info in this thread...

Corbin & New Departure Hub Dating Project - Need everyone's help pre-1933 | Antique Bicycles Pre-1933

The bicycle coaster brake was invented by New Departure sometime in the 1897-98 period. Early in 1897, the company created the so-called "controller." This was a device that acted as decelerator and also permitted coasting but was not a true "coaster brake". (Posts #89 & 97) In December of 1898...

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[100bikes]

They were playing with coaster breaks late 1890s, these casted break arm hubs are cool, I'm sure someone else here knows better than I but I think those are 1903ish

Brake, coaster brake.

 

[Roger K]

New Departure offered this style coaster hub in 1902-03, then the different Model A style hub came in 1904 and then they kept that for the next 25 years. Heres from a similar early New Departure hub on my 1902 Rambler;

 

[Archie Sturmer]

In the first few pages of the Corbin & ND thread, the Corbin Duplex Model 6 is described as the first Corbin hub with the curved shell, (yet retaining the cast brass brake arm).
And that earlier Corbin hubs had a straight shell design, (as seen in the 1901-02 Corbin patents).
The later Corbin Models 7 & 8 used stamped brake arms and dust caps.