Patent ID: 7261189

Claim:
A brake system of a rail vehicle, comprising: a parking brake device having a gearing which converts a rotating movement initiated by rotation-actuating devices into an application movement of at least one pressure-medium-operated cylinder piston drive; at least one universal-joint shaft connecting the rotation-actuating devices with a gearing input of the gearing; the gearing input being disposed in the direct vicinity of the at least one pressure-medium-operated cylinder piston drive and connected to a nut screw drive converting a rotating movement at a gearing output of the gearing to a linear movement of a piston of the at least one pressure-medium-operated cylinder piston drive; wherein the at least one universal-joint shaft includes two universal joint shafts, and the rotation-actuating devices include rotatably disposed hand wheels at two rail vehicle sides, the rotation-actuating devices having an axis of rotation essentially perpendicular with respect to a longitudinal dimension of the rail vehicle, and which rotation-actuating devices are each non-rotatably connected with one of the universal-joint shafts; and wherein an intermediate gearing converting the rotating movements of the hand wheels caused by the at least one universal-joint shafts to a rotating movement of at least one additional universal-joint shaft connected with a gearing input of the gearing is arranged between the gearing and the hand wheels.