Andreas Stihl

Andreas Stihl Ag & Co.

Gerhard Meyer

Dieter Wieland

Herbert Armbruster

Klaus Hoppner

Hermann Weiss

Jurgen Wolf

Reinhard Gommel

Jurgen Laser

Hans G Salomon

A motor chainsaw has a housing enclosing a motor with actuator and a saw chain. A braking device for the saw chain is positioned in the housing. The braking device has a brake drum and a brake band guided around the brake drum. The braking device has a brake lever connected to the housing so as to be pivotable about a first axis of rotation for moving the brake band from a release position into a braking position. A return kick brake for actuating the braking device is provided. The return kick brake has a ready position and an actuated position in which the brake band is in the braking position. The return kick brake has a hand protection grip, a control lever, and a return kick brake spring for loading the control lever. The control lever, when the return kick brake is moved from the ready position into the actuated position, pivots the brake lever into the braking position. A coasting brake for actuating the braking device has a transmission member, connected to the actuator and the brake lever, and a coasting brake spring for loading the brake band in the braking position. The brake lever has a second axis of rotation extending parallel to the first axis of rotation. The brake lever pivots about the second axis of rotation when the coasting brake is actuated.

Motor chainsaw with a chain braking device

The device for braking an electric drive motor of a hand-held working tool has a safety brake for an immediate stopping of the working tool and an independent mechanical brake for coasting the working tool to a stop after switching off the drive motor. The mechanical brake acts on a rotational part connected to the drive motor and is activated when a switch element for activating the drive motor is released.

Brake system with two independent mechanical brakes

The invention is directed to an air-intake arrangement for a two-stroke engine for use in hand-guided, engine-driven apparatus such as motor-driven chain saws. The air-intake arrangement includes an air filter and a baffle wall for guiding fuel particles that are buffeted back out of the air induction channel by the engine. The baffle wall has a curvature to define a deflector to redirect the fuel particles in a largely gaseous state towards the carburetor. The arrangement provides an optimum air-fuel mixture which is not overrich and a trouble-free operation of the engine.

Air-intake arrangement for a two-stroke engine

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Ludwigsburg, Germany

Gerhard Meyer