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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1989
Jack Washbourn, Axminster, GB;
Keith W Langley, Bath, GB;
Westinghouse Brake & Signal Holdings Limited, Chippenham, GB;
Abstract
A slack adjuster has a non-rotatable fast-threaded output member (19) threadedly engaged by a pair of nuts (20, 21), one of the nuts being a first brake-force-transmitting nut (20) clutchable to prevent rotation thereof and the other being a second adjustment nut (21) clutchable to land. Relative axial movement of these nuts relative to the output member (19) is a measure of 'excessive' brake clearance and restoration of the normal spacing between these nuts serves to restore brake clearance to 'normal'. The nuts (20, 21) are housed in a housing (8) which is non-rotatable but axially movable with respect to the output member (19). The first nut (20) is clutchable to a thrust member (26) resiliently loaded with a force which is overcome only by forces of the magnitude of braking forces transmitted through the slack adjuster. There is a releasable coupling (30/31) between the housing (8) and the second nut (21) which includes a splined connection (31) and which is inoperative to prevent the second nut (21) spinning on the output member (19) except when the force transmitted by the slack adjuster is sufficient to overcome the resilient loading of the thrust member (26).