Title: Device for braking a vehicle wheel

Abstract: This device, which is intended to brake a wheel of a vehicle rotated by a ive shaft carrying at its free end an epicyclic train reducer housed in a casing, is characterized in that it is fixed on the outer face of the bottom of the casing and comprises a watertight case enclosing at least one friction disc interlocked in rotation with the sun wheel of the reducer, as well as an annular plate for moving the disc axially and applying it against at least one internal friction surface, this plate being itself axially movable towards the disc under the action of control means situated inside the casing.

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Inventors: Servanton, Georges (L'Etrat, FR)
Garnier, Michel C. (Brunoy, FR)

Application Number: 953102
Filing Date: 1978-10-20
Publication_date: 1980-09-23
Assignee: S.O.M.A.-Europe Transmissions Societe Nouvelle Mecanique et Automobile (Saint Etienne, FR)
Primary Class(es): 192/221.1 188/72.6
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US Patent Ref:

4010830	Mar, 1977	Logus et al.	192/4.
4037694	Jul, 1977	Keese	192/4.
4114479	Sep, 1978	Ashfield	192/4.
4142615	Mar, 1979	Sidle, Jr. et al.	192/4.
4160497	Jul, 1979	Galicher	192/4.

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Primary Examiner: Husar, C. J.
Assistant Examiner: Berman, Conrad
Attorney: Oblon, Fisher, Spivak, McClelland & Maier