Patent GB-1442562-A (GB)
Title: Mechanically actuated disc brake
IPC: F16D65/14
Filed: 1974-08-02
Abstract: 1442562 Spot-type disc brakes; automatic adjustment for wear BENDIX CORP 2 Aug 1974 [13 Aug 1973] 34184/74 Addition to 1368925 Heading F2E A spot-type disc brake has a caliper 22 slidably mounted on a fixed support 20, and an actuating mechanism 42 within a chamber 30 in the caliper 22 comprises an extendible member formed by a piston 32 and a screw member 38 interconnected by threads 40 and also a pair of cam plates 44, 46 having complementary ramped recesses 56, 58 separated by spherical members 60, the cam plate 46 being rotationally fixed and the cam plate 44 being rotatable by a lever arm 54 to move the extendible member 32, 38 to apply the brake; to adjust for wear of friction members 16, 18 the screw member 38 is rotatable by the cap plate 44 to extend the length of the extendible member 32, 38 by means of an adjuster mechanism 82 comprising a first clutch means 84, 88, 90 which permits the plate 44 to initially rotate through a predetermined arc as defined by the angle Y upon actuation of the brake without causing rotation of the screw member 38, and a second clutch means 86, 92, 94 which is arranged to allow rotation of the screw member 38 by the cam plate 44 upon brake actuation after the plate 44 has rotated through the predetermined arc but permits the plate 44 to rotate relative to the screw member 38 upon brake release. The first clutch means comprises ribs 88 formed on a sleeve 86 received in a bore 74 in screw member 38 and projecting into arcuate slots 90 formed in plate 44 and of such a length that the nibs 88 engage their end walls after rotation of the cam plate 44 through the angle Y. The second clutch means comprises a heavy coil spring 92 which drivably connects the sleeve 86 with a further sleeve 84 in bore 74 and a lighter coil spring 94 which drivably connects the sleeve 84 with the screw member 38. The coils of spring 92 frictionally engage the inner diameter wall of the sleeve 86 and a smaller inner diameter wall portion 108 in the sleeve 84, while the spring 94 frictionally engages a larger inner diameter wall portion 98 of the sleeve 84 and the inner diameter wall 96 of bore 74. A spacer 100 provides an abutment for adjacent ends of springs 92, 94 and washers 102, 194 abut their other ends. A rod 66 extends through screw member 38 and cam plates 44, 46 and a preloaded spring 80 biases the actuating mechanism 42 to a brake released position. If during a brake actuation rotation of the cam plate 44 is in excess of the angle 7, a brake adjustment is necessitated and the end walls of the slots 90 with abut the nibs 88 to rotate the sleeve 86. In this direction of rotation the frictional torque between the heavy spring 92 (whose coils are tending to decrease in diameter) and the sleeves 86, 84 is less than the frictional torque between the lighter spring 94 (whose coils are tending to increase in diameter) and the sleeve 84 and bore wall 96 so that sufficient torque is transmitted to the screw member 38 to rotate it relative to the piston 32 to make an adjustment but allowing the heavy spring 92 to slip in the sleeve 86 when the torque acting on the threads 40 opposing rotation of the screw member 38 reaches a predetermined valuethus, for example, the relatively high forces developed during a panic stop brake application cannot cause adjustment. When the actuating force on the cam plate 44 is removed, after an adjustment in which clockwise rotation of the screw member 38 has occurred, the sleeve 86 is now rotated by the cam plate 44 and the sleeve 84 by the spring 92 (whose coils are now tending to increase in diameter) and the spring 94 slips relative to the screw member 38.  The threads 40 may be equipped with a drag spring 116 the combined resistance of the friction in the threads 40 and the drag spring 116 to rotation of the screw member 38 must be greater than the torque developed in the spring 94 so that this will slip during brake release.