Valeo Corporation

Eric Breton

Alfred Permuy

Jacques Thirion De Briel

Michel Blard

Jean Luc Travers

The friction clutch comprises a reaction plate designed to be blocked on a driving shaft, a friction disk, bearing at its external periphery friction linings, a pressure plate, a cover (,) fixed on the reaction plate, an axially operating clutching device (,) controlled by a disengaging device and which operate between the cover (,) and the pressure plate through a support device, the pressure plate being integral in rotation with the cover (,) and being subjected to the action of an elastic return device (,) axially returning the pressure plate towards the cover (,). The clutch also comprises a wear take-up device comprising a toothed gear (,) with which a worm screw (,) co-operates and a device (,) for resetting in the position corresponding to linings in new condition, the device (,) being placed at the worm screw (,) tip to drive the latter in rotation.

Friction clutch with wear take-up device provided with resetting means and tool adapted to reset said device

The friction clutch comprises a cover (,) with a base (,), a pressure plate (,) with a front friction face (,) for co-operating with a clutch friction and, set between the pressure plate (,) and the base (,) of the cover (,), a diaphragm (,) with a peripheral part extended inward by fingers (,) to oppose at will, by means of a nose (,) of a clutch bearing (,), the action of said peripheral part (,), a booster elastic washer (,) acting on the fingers (,) of the diaphragm (,) in the declutching direction resting on the cover (,): the booster washer (,) is arranged between the cover (,) and the leading-edge piece or nose (,) such that it is adapted to operate on the fingers (,) of the diaphragm (,) via said leading-edge piece or nose (,).

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Versailles, France

Eric Breton