Documents - Sachs-Huret

see also US Trademark # 1,243,517 - Sachs 1979

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date October 1979
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret, Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also US Trademark # 1,219,895 - Sachs 1980

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date June 1980
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret, Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also US Trademark # 1,219,897 - Sachs 1980

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date June 1980
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret, Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Sachs ad

Publisher: Bicisport
Date: March 1992
Derailleur brands: Sachs or is it Sachs-Huret?
Derailleurs: Sachs-Huret New Success ATB

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Publisher: Bicisport
Date: March 1992
Derailleur brands: Sachs or is it Sachs-Huret?
Derailleurs: Sachs-Huret New Success Sport

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see also US Trademark # 2,244,162 - Sachs 1996

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date June 1996
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: Sachs Centera

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see also US Trademark # 2,244,164 - Sachs 1996

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date June 1996
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: Sachs Neos

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see also US Trademark # 2,258,427 - Sachs 1996

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date July 1996
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also US Trademark # 2,278,673 - Sachs 1996

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date July 1996
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also US Trademark # 2,248,618 - Sachs 1996

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date October 1996
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also US Trademark # 2,258,499 - Sachs 1996

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date October 1996
Derailleur brands: Sachs, Fichtel & Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: none

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see also SRAM - Spare Parts List 1999 1998

Publisher: SRAM
Date: 1998
Derailleur brands: SRAM, Sachs, Sachs-Huret
Derailleurs: too many to list

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Founded in 1895 in Schweinfurt, Fichtel & Sachs (F&S) was one of the great European bicycle component companies. In 1980 F&S bought a controlling interest in Huret, and gradually changed the ‘Huret’ brand into ‘Sachs-Huret’. F&S also bought a number of other venerable but struggling French component companies in this period, including Sedis (chains) and Maillard (hubs, freewheels and possibly chainsets).

Then in 1987 Mannesmann, a giant German engineering conglomerate, bought the F&S group and restructured it. Mannesmann was very unimpressed by the quality of marketing in the European bicycle industry, and, for clarity, decided to change the brand back to plain ‘Sachs’, with the Huret name (and the F&S group’s other French brand names) disappearing from about 1991. Finally in 1997, Mannesmann sold the Sachs Bicycle Components unit of the old F&S to SRAM. SRAM dropped the ‘Sachs’ brand from 1999, but continued with some of Sach’s designs under the ‘SRAM’ brand name.

In terms of derailleurs, Sachs-Huret models consisted of three groups

Huret’s existing models cleaned up, slightly modernised and subjected to a welcome dose of German logic. In the last years of Huret their offer seemed to me to have been starved of technical development, styling and even much thought and F&S were able to bring more resources to the table.
Two immediate developments, the indexed Commander (to do battle with Shimano’s Positron system) and the drop parallelogram Rival (to do battle with Shimano’s 600 series). Both designs were slightly crude derivatives of Shimano designs, with two sprung pivots.
Once Sachs had got into its stride Sachs-Huret started to produce better constructed, better finished designs, although they remained essentially copies of Shimano designs.

There is some history of Sachs-Huret on the SRAM website.