Friction lining carrier member having replaceable friction linings
AssigneeITT Industries, Inc.
InventorPeter Drott
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Abstract
A carrier member for replaceable friction linings for clutch-type disc brakes wherein the friction linings are guided and held radially relative to a brake disc by a positive engagement with grooves in an adjacent surface of the carrier member with the friction linings being supported in the circumferential direction relative to the disc by supporting elements connected to the carrier member. The supporting elements engage bores in the carrier member perpendicular to the adjacent surface and are held in their mounted position by a friction lining overlapping an edge of the adjacent supporting element.
Claims14
A friction lining carrier member having a plurality of replaceable friction linings comprising:
- said carrier member having a first formation on an inner portion thereof and a second formation on an outer portion thereof, each of said plurality of friction linings being guided in a circumferential direction between and in positive engagement radially with said first and second formations;
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- at least one supporting element disposed between each adjacent ones of said plurality of friction linings, said supporting elements being in a positive engagement with said carrier member and held in position in said carrier member by one of said adjacent ones of said plurality of friction linings being in an overlapping relationship therewith;
- each of said supporting elements being a round bolt having a substantially rectangular head larger than the diameter of a shank portion of said bolt, said shank portion being disposed in a bore in said carrier member,
- said head including a step on a side surface thereof adjacent to said one of said adjacent ones of said plurality of friction linings,
- said head being disposed in a recess in said carrier member such that said step and a surface of said carrier member supporting said plurality of friction linings are on the same plane, and
- said one of said adjacent ones of said plurality of friction linings being placed on said step in an abutting relation with a surface of said head perpendicular to said step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.