Talk:Bowden cable

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[edit] "Pushing"

Is it accurate to say that the cable can be used to transmit a pushing force? I'm unfamiliar with the camera mechanism used as an example, but for the bicycle shifter the derailleur spring is always pulling on the cable, so a "push" on the shifter is really just a relaxation of a counter-pull. Ross Hatton 17:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I have used a camera shutter release that uses a 'push' motion with such a cable. However, in working on many, many models of bikes I have never come across one that uses a 'push' cable. I think this reference was either incorrect or very obscure (either way it shouldn't be in the article) so I have removed it. -SCEhardT 02:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Frank Bowden

The inventor of the Bowden cable was Ernest Monnington Bowden (1860 to 1904), not Frank Bowden. Ernest filed the patent, No. 25,235 for the Bowden Cable on 11th November 1896. On 12th January 1900 he granted a license to The Raleigh Cycle Company of Nottingham whose directors were Frank Bowden and Edward Harlow. At this signing they became members of E. M. Bowdens Patent Syndicate Limited . Many other famous names were admitted to the syndicate to fully exploit the usefulness of this invention. eg Messrs R H Lea & Graham I. Francis of Lea & Francis Ltd,

  William Riley of the Riley Cycle Company etc.
  More than 30 companies in UK alone and 16 in Europe, many of which are commonly remembered 
  to this day.