Patent ID: 7165660

Claim:
A parking brake assembly which includes a lever for operation of a brake shoe to provide a parking function, the lever carrying an automatic latching device for automatically latching to the lever an end fitting on an operating cable and a guide spring extending from an associated brake backplate into contact with the lever, the automatic latching device comprising a latching member mounted on the lever which is deflected aside by the end fitting as the cable is fed in a first direction towards the lever within the guide spring and which latches behind an abutment on the end fitting to latch the cable to the lever so that subsequent movement of the cable in a second direction opposite to the first direction moves the lever to operate the parking function, the end of the guide spring which contacts the lever being extended to hook onto a locating formation on the latching member to bias the latching member towards the position in which it latches behind the abutment on the end fitting and retains the spring in position on the lever.