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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony C Evans, Northville, MI (US);
Assignee:
Kelsey-Hayes Company, Romulus, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
188 7954 ; 188 7956 ; 1881 / ; 1881 / ; 188328 ; 1881 / ; 188 7964 ; 1881 / ;
Abstract
In a hydraulic drum brake and parking brake assembly, when a hydraulic actuator is operated to engage an opposed pair of brake shoes with a brake drum after a predetermined amount of wear had occurred on the friction pads of the brake shoes, a torsion spring adjusts a cam in the parking brake portion of the mechanism to compensate for the wear. The parking brake will thus operate properly despite the wear.