Patent ID: 6513629
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
A brake cable-connecting apparatus for a drum brake comprising:a brake lever, supported on a shoe web of a brake shoe, having a forked free end with a cable receiving groove and a proximal end rotatably supported on the shoe web, a brake cable including an inner cable and a cable end fixed on a tip end of the inner cable, a biasing means, separated from the free end of the brake lever, urging the brake cable, inserted into the brake from outside of the brake, to advance toward the free end of the brake lever for engaging the cable end with a back edge of the brake lever in an opposite direction in which the brake cable is pulled, the brake cable being thereby connected to the brake lever, whereina slanted surface is formed along an outer edge of the free end of the brake lever at a cable pulling direction side thereof for permitting the inner cable to be resiliently deformed while the cable end is slid on the outer edge of the free end when the cable end is advanced along the free end.