Patent ID: 7431132

Claim:
Disc brake having a brake carrier, which is fastenable to the vehicle and has bolts at the leading side and at the trailing side of the brake, which during braking exert tensile forces and compressive forces upon at least one brake lining, wherein the brake lining has receivers for the bolts, so that the tensile forces and compressive forces are exerted at inner surfaces of the receivers, and wherein the relative dimensions and arrangements of the bolts and of the brake lining are such that, upon introduction of a first braking force only tensile forces act upon the brake lining, and upon introduction of a second braking force both tensile forces and considerable compressive forces act upon the brake lining, wherein centrelines of the bolts define a plane that has a smaller radial spacing from a disc axis than a centre of area of a friction lining of the brake lining, wherein the receivers are U-shaped recesses into which the bolts engage, and wherein the brake lining is configured to be mounted radially from above onto the bolts.