Alfred Teves Gmbh

Wolfgang Endler

Rolf Weiler

Claus-Peter Panek

Uwe Hendrich

Erhard Czich

Juergen Wagner

An apparatus for a drum brake for mechanically actuatable self-energizing internal shoe-type drum brakes for automotive vehicles. A pair of brake shoes (4, 5) is arranged on a brake carrier plate (27) at a thrust member (6) and furnished with tension springs (7, 10). A mechanical actuating apparatus acts between a pair of brake shoe ends (4, 5) disposed opposite each other and prestressed by springs (7, 10). The mechanical actuating apparatus presses the brake shoes (4, 5) for braking against a brake drum (1) enclosing them and a first automatically clearance compensating adjusting device is arranged between the brake shoe ends as well as a second adjusting device arranged at at least one brake shoe web (12) supporting the brake shoe (5). In order to provide a constant functioning reliability using simple-design, and a low-cost components, while simultaneously eliminating conventional checking and adjusting operations, the adjusting device is comprised of a first adjusting apparatus with a self-adjusting, variable-length pressure strut (39) arranged between the brake shoes (4, 5) and that a second adjusting apparatus is furnished with a self-adjusting adjustment member at a brake shoe web (12) supporting the brake shoe (5), which adjustment member interacts in circumferential direction both with the mechanical actuating device (3) and with a supporting bracket (2).

Apparatus for a drum brake, in particular for mechanically actuatable

The present invention relates to a pin guiding and/or damping element for floating-caliper spot-type disc brakes, the brake comprising a brake carrier (8) as well as a brake housing (10) which is axially slideable thereto and which straddles a brake disc and brake shoes, while the brake carrier and/or the brake housing is further provided with at least one pin (4) which is guided in a bore (12) of the housing and/or the brake carrier (8), as well as with at least one elastic guiding and/or damping portion seated in the bore. In order to accomplish a good damping as well as an improved protection for the entire guiding length of the guiding pin (4), it is provided that the guiding and damping portion (14) is furnished with a pleated bellows portion (16) at least one of its ends, and that adjacent to this pleated bellows portion (16), there is provision of a rolling diaphragm (22).

Pin guiding and/or damping sleeve for floating-caliper spot-type disc

The present invention relates to a pin guiding and/or damping element for floating-caliper spot-type disc brakes, the brake comprising a brake carrier (8) as well as a brake housing (10) which is axially slideable thereto and which straddles a brake disc and brake shoes, while the brake carrier and/or the brake housing is further provided with at least one pin (4) which is guided in a bore (12) of the housing and/or the brake carrier (8), as well as with at least one elastic guiding and/or damping portion seated in the bore. In order to accomplish a good damping as well as an improved protection for the entire guiding length of the guiding pin (4), it is provided that the guiding and damping portion (14) is furnished with a pleated bellows portion (16) at least at one of its ends, and that adjacent to this pleated bellows portion (16), there is provision of a rolling diaphragm (22).

An actuating device for a disc brake, in particular for automotive vehicles, has a rotatably supported actuating member and a transforming device for transforming a rotary motion into an axial motion. A part of the transforming device may be held by a holding element whereby the transforming device may be non-rotatable and axially displaceable. The holding element has a rotatably supported part fixed to the brake housing. Friction-reducing means is provided between the rotatable part and the element fixed to the housing.

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Hofheim, Germany

Wolfgang Endler