Patent ID: 9677627
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: B60T,F16D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A braking apparatus for collecting brake dust caused by braking a vehicle, the braking apparatus comprising: a braking mechanism having one or more brake pads; a shroud coupled with the braking mechanism and forming a hollow cavity having a shroud inlet aperture and a shroud outlet aperture with an air path between the shroud inlet aperture and the shroud outlet aperture; and a hollow catch canister coupled with the shroud below the air path between the shroud inlet aperture and the shroud output aperture, the hollow catch canister having a catch inlet aperture wherein the brake dust deviates from the air path between the shroud inlet aperture and the shroud outlet aperture and falls from the shroud before the shroud outlet aperture through the catch inlet aperture into the hollow catch canister.