Brakes – Position adjusters – Slack
Patent
1979-01-08
1980-11-18
Reger, Duane A.
Brakes
Position adjusters
Slack
188 795K, 188 719, F16D 6556
Patent
active
042340640
ABSTRACT:
A slack adjuster for railway brakes has an input member to which a brake force is applied and an output member movable coaxially therewith, a coupling element via which a brake force is transmissible between the two members and which is positively engaged with one of the members via a cooperating helical engagement means and is engageable with the other member via clutching faces which are retained in force transmitting engagement by the reaction forces produced by the helical engagement means when a force is transmitted between the members for a brake application, the clutching faces being disengageable when such reaction forces are removed to permit relative rotation of the members and enable wear or slack in the brake rigging to be taken up.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1860770 (1932-05-01), Bugatti
patent: 3211263 (1965-10-01), Harrison
patent: 3467228 (1969-09-01), Knights
patent: 3669221 (1972-06-01), Hase
Reger Duane A.
Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Ltd.
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