The Bendix Corporation

Norris A Hooton

Norman E Jannasch

Carbon cloth sheaths impregnated with oxidation inhibiting materials are located between drive slots on the periphery of a carbon friction disc to prevent structural degradation of a band of continuous carbon fibers located in the disc through which a braking torque is uniformly distributed throughout the carbon friction disc during frictional engagement. A metal screen is mated to the carbon cloth by a resin binder. The metal screen carbon cloth sheaths or caps may be held on the disc periphery by locating pins to permit a resin binder bond to be established between each cap and associated arcuate segment of the periphery of the carbon friction disc. Anchor pins which hold a series of metal reinforcing plates in a fixed position with the drive slots extend through the walls of the reinforced carbon caps and the carbon friction disc to reduce the possibility of delamination between the reinforced carbon caps and the periphery.

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South Bend, IN, United States of America

Norris A Hooton