Patent ID: 6877592

Claim:
A mechanical actuator for a drum brake, comprising: a parking brake actuating lever positioned between a back plate and a shoe web of a brake shoe, the brake lever being adjacent to and parallel to the shoe web and having a bending section extending toward the back plate around a free end of the brake lever; a through hole, enabling a cable end of a brake cable to pass therethrough, formed in the free end of the brake lever; and a slit, wider than a diameter of an inner cable of the brake cable but narrower than the cable end, extending from the through hole to the bending section, the inner cable capable of moving along the slit for the cable end to be hooked and rested on the bending section, wherein said through hole is positioned radially inwardly of said shoe web, and said shoe web overlaps an intermediate portion of said slit, thereby preventing the disengagement of said inner cable from said slit.