Patent ID: 6845853

Claim:
A wheel brake device for a motor vehicle, having a wheel brake lining that for generating a braking moment can be pressed against a brake body connected to a vehicle wheel in a manner fixed against relative rotation, the wheel brake device ( 10 ) comprising a pivotable lever ( 22 ), with which the wheel brake lining ( 18 ) can be pressed against the brake body ( 14 ) by pivoting of the lever ( 22 ); an energy-storing spring element ( 26 ), which at a point spaced apart from the wheel brake lining ( 18 ) engaging and urging the lever ( 22 ) in the direction of pressing the wheel brake lining ( 18 ) against the brake body ( 14 ); the lever ( 22 ) including a nonrectilinear sliding guide ( 30 , 32 ) pivotally supporting the lever ( 22 ) on a support means ( 32 , 34 ), the support means ( 32 , 34 ) being displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the lever ( 22 ) and providing a fulcrum about which the lever ( 22 ) pivots; and a course of the sliding guide ( 30 , 32 ) of the lever ( 22 ) being selected such that as the support means ( 32 , 34 ) is displaced along the longitudinal direction of the lever ( 22 ), the course of the sliding guide ( 30 , 32 ) extends at least approximately parallel to a displacement direction of the support means ( 32 , 34 ).