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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1987
James A Buckley, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
Donald D Brown, Thiensville, WI (US);
Hayes Industrial Brake, Inc., Mequon, WI (US);
Abstract
A brake actuator for an all-terrain vehicle, the actuator including a housing and a cover, a hand-operated lever arm pivotally mounted in the housing and projecting outwardly from the housing through said cover, the lever arm being operatively connected to the brake cables for the wheels, a locking segment mounted for pivotal movement in the housing, a ratchet-type cam surface on the segment, the segment being biased to move into locking engagement with the lever arm, the ratchet-type cam surface being spaced at progressively greater distances from the pivot axis to block the lever arm at increasing distances from the brakes.