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US 6,202,519 B1Granted
Brake testing device
OwnerBarry Victor Yandtinventor
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Abstract
A brake testing device for a transport vehicle having a brake pedal and a steering wheel, the steering wheel having a rim portion, the device having a shaft member whose length is selected to extend between the brake pedal and the steering wheel; first engagement means mounted on the shaft for engaging the rim portion; second engagement means for engaging the brake pedal, wherein the device is operable to maintain the brake pedal at an operative position.
Claims4
A method of testing the brakes of a transport truck vehicle, said transport truck vehicle having a brake pedal and a steering wheel with a rim portion, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a length adjustable shaft member having an outer shaft portion and an inner shaft portion telescopingly engaged for sliding movement therewith and a nut threaded on the outer shaft portion which is rotatable to fix the position of the outer shaft portion relative to the inner shaft portion,
- b) loosening the nut and sliding the outer shaft portion relative to the inner shaft portion so that the length of the length adjustable shaft member approximates the distance between the rim portion and the brake pedal and then partially tightening the nut;
- c) after step b), positioning the length adjustable shaft member between the brake pedal and the rim portion,
- d) depressing said brake pedal to an operative braking position;
- e) adjusting the length of said shaft member while engaging respective end regions of the shaft member respectively with said pedal and said rim portion;
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- f) twisting the nut relative to the outer shaft portion to fix the length of said shaft member, in order that said brake remains in said operative braking position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.