Patent ID: 8261890

Claim:
A brake assembly of the type having a brake shoe with a generally cylindrically curved platform, and one or more brake plates mounted on the platform, both the platform and the brake plate or plates having generally cylindrically curved front and rear edges, the brake plate or plates each including a brake lining and a backing plate, with the backing plate having an outer surface secured to the lining and having an inner surface attachable to an outer surface of the brake shoe platform, wherein: said brake shoe platform has a circumferentially spaced series of apertures each adjacent to and spaced inwardly of said rear edge of said platform, and has a series of circumferentially spaced recesses communicating with said front edge of said platform, and in that each said backing plate has: a) two rear flanges adjacent said rear edge thereof, each rear flange being L-shaped and having an inner portion depending from the inner surface of said backing plate and a rearwardly projecting outer tongue portion generally parallel to an adjacent area of the backing plate, both said outer tongue portions being sized to pass through said apertures in the brake shoe platform; and b) two front flanges adjacent the front edge thereof, each front flange having an inner portion depending from the inner surface of the backing plate and an outer tongue portion generally parallel to an adjacent area of the backing plate; whereby said brake plate can be assembled to the brake shoe platform by passing said rear flanges through the said apertures in the brake shoe platform and sliding said brake plate rearwardly until said rear flange outer tongue portions underlie portions of the platform adjacent said rear edge while said front flange inner portions enter said recesses and the front flange outer tongue portions slide under portions of the brake shoe platform adjacent said front edge.