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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1990
Alfred Teves GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
This invention relates to a spot-type disc brake, in particular for automotive vehicles, with a housing straddles a brake disc in a U-shaped manner and has a housing bridge, a first housing leg having a piston-and-cylinder unit, and a second, external housing leg, with a first brake shoe which has a carrier plate and is arranged on the first, piston-side leg, with a second brake shoe which has a carrier plate and is arranged on the second, external housing leg and supports the housing radially relative to the brake disc's axis and with projections on the carrier plate which supports the brake shoe in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction. According to this invention, the projections on the carrier plate of the brake shoe are arranged outside the circumference of the brake disc.