Extensible brake wear gauge
OwnerChristopher M. Talbertinventor
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Abstract
A wear gauge device (10) for use with disc brake systems having a boss (100) provided with a floating arm (101) and wear indicator pin (102) that track the thickness of brake lining material (104) wherein, the wear gauge device (10) includes an illumination member (40) mounted on one end of a telescoping support member (30) the other end of which is connected and disposed perpendicular to a wear plate member (20) having a plurality of different colored wear indicator segments (21) (22) (23) that are positionable behind the wear indicator pin (102) to obtain an estimate of the remaining amount of brake lining material (104).
Claims4
A brake wear gauge device for use on disc brakes provided with a boss and having a floating arm associated with brake pad lining material and carrying a wear pin which projects through the boss wherein the wear gauge device comprises
- a wear plate member provided with a plurality of differently colored wear indicator segments;
- a telescoping support member provided with a plurality of telescoping segments and having a distal end and a proximal end wherein, the distal end is connected and disposed perpendicular to the wear plate member;
- and,
- an illumination member connected to the proximal end of the support member and adapted to cast a beam of light onto the wear plate member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.