Disc brake

In a disc brake of the type in which floating type calipers urge friction members against a brake disc for a braking action with said friction members being located on the opposite sides of said brake disc and in which said friction members receive a torque from said brake disc during braking and are supported on a fixing member so as to be movable in the direction perpendicular to the plane of brake disc, the improvement in the fixing member comprising:

• a pair of "U"-shaped steel plates fixedly joined back-to-back and fixedly mounted adjacent, and in a plane substantially parallel, to said brake disc, said "U"-shaped steel plates each including a pair of legs surrounding at least a portion of said calipers, said legs being positioned proximate said friction members and interacting therewith for receiving torque during braking, the legs of each of the pairs of "U"-shaped steel plates terminating in a pair of end portions bent outwardly in opposing direction to form a pair of flanges in substantially the same plane, the outer surfaces of said flanges being substantially perpendicular to the plane of the plate, said joined pair of plates being fixedly mounted with a pair of like sides of said pair of flanges extending over said brake disc, guide members individually and rigidly secured to the outer surfaces of said associated pairs of said flanges covering substantially the entire transverse width of said outer surfaces of the flanges of said torque-receiving legs for supporting said calipers for movement perpendicular to the plane of said brake disc, said torque being received directly by at least one of said legs, and means for restraining radial movement of said calipers with respect to said disc, said restraining means being individual plates mounted rigidly on said guide members with said calipers being slidably movable between cooperating ones of said guide members and said plates.