Automatic load-dependent brake power regulator for vehicles
AssigneeWABCO Westinghouse GmbH
InventorErich Reinecke
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Abstract
The invention relates to an automatic load-dependent brake power regulator for motor vehicles and trailers in which the regulator automatically assumes a condition to provide a braking force for a half-loaded vehicle in the event the regulator control linkage between the regulator and vehicle axle should break.
Claims6
Automatic load-dependent brake power regulator for motor vehicles and trailers having a stepped piston disposed in the upper part of the regulator housing and having a two-way valve body which is freely coxially movable in the hollow space of the stepped piston and forms, in conjunction with a valve seat fixed to the piston, an inlet valve and which is operatively connected with a valve stem coaxially disposed thereunder whose upper end face forming the operative connection forms, in conjunction with the two-way valve body, an outlet valve and whose lower end is tensionally connected with the ball end of a rotatably supported control lever whose position is determined by the load of the vehicle, as well as having a compensating piston (25) which, disposed in the lower part of the regulator housing, supports the ball end of the control lever and is acted upon by the brake pressure controlled by the motor-vehicle brake valve or by the trailer control valve, characterized in that in the lower part of the regulator housing (1) there is provided beneath the compensating piston (25) an annular piston (30) which is provided with a slip connection (31) and can be acted upon by compressed air in the direction of movement of the compensating piston (25).
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