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US 4,391,354 AGranted
Piston-and-cylinder assembly for hydraulic disk clutch or brake
AssigneeZahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG
InventorManfred Bucksch
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AssigneeZahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG
InventorManfred Bucksch
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A clutch or brake cylinder has an annular working space accommodating an annular piston which confronts a stack of interleaved friction plates adapted to couple the cylinder to a coaxial member rotatable relatively thereto, the piston being displaceable by fluid pressure toward the stack against the force of a Belleville spring. This piston occupies only part of the working space so as to leave an annular clearance in which an ancillary sealing ring is independently slidable. When fluid pressure is applied, part of that pressure pushes the sealing ring against the Belleville spring and lifts it off the piston which then can exert its full force upon the stack of friction plates. Extraction of the cylinder from a surrounding housing enables the piston and the sealing ring to be replaced by a larger piston, filling the entire cross-sectional area of the working space, if a greater coupling pressure is to be exerted.
In a fluidically operated speed-changing assembly comprising a cylinder with an annular working space, an annular piston axially slidable in said working space under pressure of an operating fluid, a stack of interleaved first and second annular friction plates confronting said piston, said first friction plates being positively linked with said cylinder, said second friction plates being positively linked with a relatively rotatable member to be coupled with said cylinder by fluid pressure forcing said piston against said stack, and spring means in said cylinder resisting a displacement of said piston toward said stack,
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