Patent ID: 6877395

Claim:
A parking-brake mechanism ( 1 ) for braking vehicle wheels, including an actuating device, a control cable extending from the actuating device to the wheels to be braked, a brake lever connected to the actuating device, a cable-tensioning element in the form of a rotatably mounted cable windup disc structure arranged in a latchable lock-in connection with said brake lever, a control cable section connected to the cable windup disc structure and extending therefrom, said element cable windup disc structure being resiliently biased in a tensioning direction of the control cable and being connected to said cable wind-up disc structure ( 16 ) being held in position relative to the brake lever ( 15 ) by a locking member ( 30 ) in the form of a break element for securing the cable windup disc structure ( 16 ) in an installation position in which it does not tighten the control cable section ( 6 ) extending from the cable windup disc structure ( 16 ), said break element ( 30 ) being designed for a particular loading limit beyond which the break element ( 30 ) is split into separate parts ( 48 , 50 ), which, in the broken state of the break element ( 30 ), are held captivated in said brake lever ( 15 ) and said cable windup structure ( 16 ).