Facing assembly of a friction clutch disc

A facing assembly of a friction clutch disc, comprising:

• a facing fixing plate having plural apertures arranged at radially outer portions and radial inner portions;
• a pair of facings disposed on both faces of the fixing plate, said facings integrally connecting each other by connection portions extending through said plural apertures such that said facings are fixed to said fixing plate, and wherein a total sectional area of connecting portions in radially outer portions of the facings is larger than a total sectional area of connecting portions in radially inner portions of the facings, and wherein the facings and the plate portion to which the facings are fixed are divided into plural portions by substantially radial slits, and the adjacent two facings portions with each slit therebetween are axially shifted with respect to each other with a slight axial distance therebetween so that the plate portions pressed to a flywheel by a pressure plate may be elastically deformed to reduce the axial distance to zero;
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• grooves formed in each facing portion running from the radial inner portion to the radial outer portion of each facing portion, said grooves being inclined with respect to the radial direction and the radially inner and end of each of said grooves occupying a forward position with respect to the clutch rotating direction wherein said grooves on opposing sides of said fixing plate alternate with respect to the clutch rotating direction, and wherein the greater distance from a leading edge of the facings, with respect to the clutch rotating direction, to the first groove of each facing portion from said leading edge is located on the side nearest an engaging pressure plate compared with the opposing side nearest an engaging flywheel.