Brakes

A brake assembly including:

• a brake housing;
• a wheel shaft rotatable in the housing;
• an armature plate in the housing, secured to and rotatable with the shaft;
• a movable actuator in the housing, movable axially from an inoperative position to an operative position closer to the armature plate;
• an electromagnet housed in an electromagnetic housing and adapted, when energized, to rotate, and thus urge the actuator to rotate, with the armature plate, from its inoperative position to its operative position;
• a lever member operatively attached to the electromagnet housing and adapted to be actuated by actuation of said electromagnet, said lever member having gear means associated therewith rotatably engaging the movable actuator;
• a rotatable brake disc in the housing, rotatable with the shaft;
• and
• a non-rotatable brake member in the housing;
• the movable actuator being adapted, when moved by said lever to the operative position by the interengagement of the gear means with the lever member upon actuation of said electromagnetic, to force the rotatable brake disc and the nonrotatable brake member into frictional contact to brake the rotation of the said disc and the shaft to which it is connected.