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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1979
John P Bayliss, Redditch, GB;
Girling Limited, Birmingham, GB;
Abstract
A friction pad assembly for a rail vehicle brake comprises a pad of friction material carried by a rigid backing plate, and the backing plate is detachably mounted on a shoe. A part-circular notch at one end of the shoe receives the stem of a headed stud which acts as an abutment for that end of the backing plate, and the backing plate is urged into engagement with the stud by means of a keeper which acts on the opposite end of the backing plate. The keeper comprises a stop member in combination with a relatively movable resilient abutment comprising a strip of metal which is bent into a loop and of which a forward terminal projection of part-circular outline is received in a notch of complementary outline in the other end of the backing plate.