Compagnie Industrielle De Mecanismes

Rockwell Body Component Systems

Jean P Noel

Bruno Gertsch

Marcel Party

This brake, suitable for being connected to a brake cable (6), comprises a toothed sector (1) fitted with a dentation (2) which sector is intended to be fixed to the floor of the vehicle, a pawl (9) provided with locking teeth (13) interacting with the dentation (2) of the sector and a hollow manual gripping lever (5) equipped with an internal push-button rod (7), one end (7a) of which interacts with the pawl in order to keep it in the locking position of the brake due to the thrust of a return spring (14); the pawl (9), articulated about a pin (11), interacts with a member (17), which may be an additional tooth (17) forming part of an over-moulded covering (16) on the metal body (12) of the pawl, positioned between the teeth (13) of the locking mechanism and the pin (11), or an intermediate member which is not integrally connected to the pawl; this member is dimensioned in order to slide over the dentation (2) while the lever (5) is being operated, thereby keeping the teeth (13) of the locking mechanism away from the dentation (2). This arrangement eliminates the noise from operating the pawl in previous brakes.

Handbrake for a vehicle

The latch comprises a latching mechanism, a locking mechanism, an electric motor actuating device for the locking mechanism and a key for manually actuating the locking mechanism and controlling the supply of current to the actuating device. The motor has an output gear which is located in the case of the latch and directly drives an element of the locking mechanism.

Latch, in particular for an automobile vehicle door

The lock is of the type comprising a pivotal fork member movable between an unlocking position towards which it is biased resiliently and a locking position. A detent means is carried by an arm of a pivotal first lever which has two arms and is movable between a retaining position and a releasing position relative to a projecting portion of said fork member and biased towards the releasing position by an unlocking force exerted on the fork member. A second lever is mounted to pivot between a first position, towards which it is returned resiliently and in which it locks an end of the second arm of the first lever when the first lever is in its retaining position, and a second position in which it releases said end and towards which it can be shifted. The fork member comprises two successive locking projecting portions and there is provided a cam surface which is cooperative with a projecting portion of the second lever so as to cause the second lever to temporarily move to its second position when the second projecting portion of the fork member approaches the detent means in the course of the locking movement of the fork member.

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Saint-Die, France

Jean P Noel