Overrunning wheel brake

Details Overrunning wheel brake Overrunning wheel brake

1982-09-30

1984-06-26

Butler, Douglas C.

Brakes

Wheel

Transversely movable

188136, 188342, B60T 720, F16D 5146, F16D 5160

Patent

active

044561024

ABSTRACT:
An overrunning wheel brake has a brake drum, two brake shoes including a first brake shoe which, upon forward movement will be leading, and a second brake shoe, a bracket member provided with at least one guiding part arranged to support the first brake shoe, a tensioning member formed as an eccentric cam expanding the bracket in direction toward the drum and acting in running up direction of the first shoe, at least one incline provided on the first brake shoe in the region of its contact with the guiding part of the bracket member and forming relative to an outer curvature of the first brake shoe a wedge surface tapering in the running-up direction of the first brake shoe, an abutment member, and a displaceable pin arranged so that the brake shoes abut via the pin against one another and against the abutment member, and the tensioning member abutting with its free end against the second brake shoe via the pin.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1873389 (1932-08-01), Gunn
patent: 2221929 (1940-11-01), Snider
patent: 2251854 (1941-08-01), Parnell et al.
patent: 4363386 (1982-12-01), Peitz

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