Pbr Australia Pty Ltd.

Keith Clarkson Reeves

An opposed piston disc brake caliper has a caliper housing arranged for mounting brake shoes on each of opposite sides of a rotor. The rotor in use is disposed between the brake shoes with each brake shoe having a backing plate and a friction lining applied to the backing plate. The caliper housing has side walls extending generally in a plane parallel to a plane of the rotor and on opposite sides of the plane of the rotor which accommodate a piston. The caliper housing has mounting members for engagement with each of the side edges of each backing plate between the radially inner edge and the radially outer edge of the friction lining. The engagement is such as to substantially limit movement of each brake shoe other than in a direction toward or away from the rotor with at least one of the mounting members being removable from the caliper housing to facilitate removal of the brake shoe from the caliper housing.

Disc brake caliper

A disc brake caliper has a cast metal housing and an anchor bracket which are connected for relative movement during brake actuation. The housing has a bridge section for bridging in use, a disc brake rotor and first and second axially spaced brake pad mounting faces extending substantially perpendicular to the bridge section for disposal in use, on either side of a disc brake rotor and for axial mounting of brake pads thereagainst. First and second inner finger radiuses extend respectively at the junction between the bridge section and each of the first and second brake pads mounting faces for radially supporting a portion of the periphery of a brake pad. Piston actuating means are provided for axially displacing the first brake pad away from the first brake pad mounting face into engagement with a disc brake rotor. Each of the first and second brake pad mounting faces and said inner finger radiuses are machined over the surfaces of contact with the brake pads. The second inner finger radius between the bridge section and the second brake pad mounting face includes raised sections at each end thereof relative to the section extending therebetween.

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Mount Eliza, Australia

Keith Clarkson Reeves