Abstract:
A caliper comprising: a piston bore and a seal groove located in the piston bore proximate to an open end of the piston bore, the seal groove comprising: a front wall; a rear wall; a bottom wall spanning between and connecting the front wall to the rear wall; a projection in a central region of the bottom wall suitable for allowing twisting of a seal during a brake retract and/or brake release; wherein the rear wall diverges away from the front wall as the rear wall extends away from the bottom wall and towards the bore surface.
Abstract:
An improved dry disc brake has its housing positioned radially inwardly of its rotating member. In this way, the interface between the pads and the rotor is sealed from the environment. Further, there are two braking surfaces on the rotating member at opposed ends of the housing. Since the braking heat is spread across two surfaces, the system is better able to take heat away from the braking operation. The use of external facing fins adds even more capacity to take heat away.
Abstract:
The device comprises a hydraulic operating actuator (5), associated with a friction element (4) and capable of being operated by a liquid under pressure to bring the friction element into frictional contact with the component to be braked (2); and a pneumatic actuator means (10), incorporating a hydraulic chamber (20), joined to the hydraulic actuator (5), and a pneumatic chamber (14) capable of being joined to a source of gas under pressure, the two chambers being separated by a movable wall structure forming a piston, the hydraulic chamber (20) being at least partially defined by a flexible elastic envelope (21) arranged in the immediate vicinity of the hydraulic operating actuator.
Abstract:
In a brake actuator device, wear of brake lining, which results in the increase of stroke of the brake actuator device consisting of piston and cylinder, is compensated by an adjuster which functions automatically when the brake is operated. The adjusting process takes place continuously and preferably at the onset of the actuation of the brake. A slip clutch turns the adjuster member which is connected by screw threads to the brake actuator piston to take up slack in the piston stroke. The slip clutch is driven by a rotary member that is in turn operated in response to actuation of the brake actuator.
Abstract:
A double-acting, floating, frictional coupling mechanism including an air-operated diaphragm-type piston with integral rack guided for axial movement in meshed engagement with a rotatably connected pinion. A cam on the pinion shaft cooperates with a second piston and intensifies the force transmitted through the rack and pinion by the air-operated piston.
Abstract:
A brake having axially-expanding brake shoes, comprises an actuating block radially located in a peripheral annular groove formed in a rotating member. The actuating block possesses along its axis, a plurality of cylinders in which slide pistons which apply the brake shoes against the braking surfaces formed by the opposite radially-extending faces of the groove.According to the invention, the actuating block comprises a single, solid, center support plate, and the ends of the cylinders project axially over the transverse faces of this support plate.
Abstract:
Because of its physical properties, mercury can be very effective as hydraulic fluid in a double-action piston and cylinder assembly mounted to float between opposed discs of a friction brake or clutch. The mercury is contained within a chamber of the piston-cylinder assembly and the high surface tension of the fluid prevents leakage.
Abstract:
A fully lined disk brake adapted for use to advantage with a wheel of a light-weight passenger car has a radially outwardly open brake housing secured to a hub of the wheel by circumferentially spaced radial arms. The brake housing has a radially inward wall provided with spaced openings which communicate with openings between the radial arms which support the housing. A stepped ring responsive to fluid under pressure is disposed between the brake disks in the brake housing for actuation of the brakes. The stepped rings which form the brake actuating member are provided with axial projections having spaces therebetween which contact the brake shoes. Air for ventilating the brakes is drawn through the openings between the arms and in the inner wall of the housing and passes between the projection members on the stepped rings to ventilate the brake disk. In one embodiment of the invention stepped rings providing a Z-shaped interface with one of the rings having an annular groove therein and the other ring having a complementing annular projection disposed in the groove is also preferably provided with the axial projections between the rings and the brake disk.