Patent ID: 8973217
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: B60B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A steering caster, comprising: a head element; a support element including at least one arm; a foot lever actuating a directional fixation device and a brake component; a wheel including a rim and a rotation axis, the rim having circumferential teething extending in an axial direction; at least one thread protector connected with the at least one arm and mounted along the rotation axis and covering the rim and having teething extending in an axial direction on a side of the at least one thread protector adjacent the wheel, the teething configured to engage the circumferential teething, and the at least one thread protector having a side adjacent the at least one arm; and at least one actuation contour on the at least one arm, wherein the brake component includes at least one rim brake locking element that is connected to the foot lever and the at least one rim brake locking element is arranged between the side of the at least one thread protector adjacent the at least one arm and the at least one arm, the at least one actuation contour engaging the at least one rim brake locking element, and wherein actuating the foot lever raises the at least one brake locking element, and the at least one actuation contour causes the at least one brake locking element to move the at least one thread protector in the axial direction towards the wheel into engaging the teething with the circumferential teething.