Class 188 :: BRAKES

Definition

Subclasses List

• 1.11R • WITH CONDITION INDICATOR
• 1.11W • Wear
• 1.11L • Electrical
• 1.11E • Electrical
• 1.12 • TO RETARD ROLLING OF CASTER
• 2R • VEHICLE
• 3R • Train
• 3H • Fluid pressure vehicle
• 4R • Wheel and ground
• 4B • Rotary brake member
• 5 • Ground-engaging
• 6 • Sprag
• 7 • Anchors
• 8 • Sled
• 9 • Wagon
• 10 • Four-wheel
• 11 • Divided beam
• 12 • Running gear support
• 13 • Divided beam
• 14 • Hayrack type
• 15 • Retreating shoe
• 16 • Independent wheel
• 17 • Hub or disk
• 18R • Motor vehicle
• 18A • Disc brakes
• 19 • Cart
• 21 • Truck
• 22 • Two-wheel
• 23 • Ground-engaging
• 24.11 • Velocipede (e.g., bicycle, etc.)
• 24.12 • Including mechanism for opposed gripping of wheel rim or tire
• 24.13 • Wheel rim configured to cooperate with components
• 24.14 • Having means to increase braking force (e.g., self-energizing brake, etc.)
• 24.15 • Variable leverage actuator
• 24.16 • Plural brakes having common actuator
• 24.17 • Actuation controlled by back-pedalling
• 24.18 • With means to lock brake in actuated position
• 24.19 • Having means to adjust spacing between brake component and wheel rim or tire
• 24.21 • Having center-pull, cable-type actuator for mechanism
• 24.22 • Specific actuator element structure
• 25 • Roller
• 26 • Hub or disk
• 27 • Pivoted wheel
• 28 • Clasp
• 29 • Top shoes
• 30 • One-way
• 31 • Positive lock
• 32 • On ground
• 33 • Railway
• 34 • Train
• 35 • Wheel and rail
• 36 • Chock
• 37 • Roller shoe
• 38 • Track
• 38.5 • Plural abutments selectively engageable by vehicle-carried means, e.g., car spotter
• 39 • Rotary shoe
• 40 • Slot
• 41 • Rail
• 42 • Carrier type
• 43 • Grippers
• 44 • Automatic
• 45 • Wheel clamps
• 46 • Equalizing series
• 47 • Connected trucks
• 48 • Maximum traction type
• 49 • Four wheel opposing
• 50 • Open center
• 51 • Divided beam
• 52 • Four wheel spreading
• 53 • Divided beam
• 54 • Locomotive type
• 55 • Mine car type
• 56 • Clasp
• 57 • Top shoes
• 58 • Disk on axle
• 59 • Side shoes
• 60 • Positive lock
• 61 • One-way
• 62 • On track
• 63 • Catchers
• 2A • Braking torque regulators
• 2D • Bowdin wire-operated
• 2F • Wheelchair brakes
• 64 • WHEEL AND STRAND
• 65.1 • STRAND
• 65.2 • With attaching means
• 65.3 • Plural brakes
• 65.4 • Tortuous grip
• 65.5 • Adjustable
• 67 • ROD
• WHEEL
• 68 • Frictional and positive
• 69 • Positive lock
• 70R • Axially and transversely movable
• 70B • Self-energizing
• 71.1 • Axially movable brake element or housing therefor
• 71.2 • With clutch between load and brake assemblage
• 71.3 • Antipodal, relatively separable brake elements
• 71.4 • Annular elements
• 71.5 • Plural rotating elements (e.g., "multidisc")
• 71.6 • With means for cooling brake
• 71.7 • With means to adjust for wear of brake
• 71.8 • Self-adjusting means
• 71.9 • Including unidirectionally rotating screw
• 72.1 • With means for actuating brake element
• 72.2 • Self-force-increasing means
• 72.3 • And means for retracting brake element
• 72.4 • By fluid pressure piston
• 72.5 • Piston for each of plural elements
• 72.6 • And/or mechanical linkage
• 72.7 • By inclined surface (e.g., wedge, cam or screw)
• 72.8 • Screw or helical cam
• 72.9 • By pivoted lever
• 73.1 • Structure of brake element
• 73.2 • Circumferential or circumferentially spaced
• 73.31 • Retainer for brake element
• 73.32 • Having means to facilitate changing brake element
• 73.33 • By manipulation of brake actuator
• 73.34 • Pivotable actuator
• 73.35 • Having actuator and means to prevent vibration thereof
• 73.36 • Including means to prevent vibration of brake element
• 73.37 • Having means to prevent vibration of brake element
• 73.38 • Spring
• 73.39 • Including torque member supporting brake element
• 73.41 • Including actuator pivotable in plane parallel to axis of rotation of wheel
• 73.42 • And slidable in that plane
• 73.43 • Including actuator slidable in plane parallel to axis of rotation of wheel
• 73.44 • On axially extending pin
• 73.45 • Plural pins
• 73.46 • Including actuator fixed on torque member
• 73.47 • Having closed loop type housing
• 74 • Transversely movable
• 75 • Opposing
• 76 • Rim grip
• 77R • Strap
• 77W • Wrap band type
• 78 • Expanding
• 79 • Multiple sets
• 323 • Three shoes
• 324 • Rotary cam operatively abutting shoe ends
• 325 • Two shoes
• 326 • Operators at both ends of each shoe
• 327 • Anchors adjacent unoperated ends
• 328 • Common anchor pivot or abutment
• 329 • Rotary cam abutting shoe ends
• 330 • Rotary cam abutting shoe ends
• 331 • Adjacent ends operatively connected and not anchored to support
• 332 • Rotary cam abutting shoe ends
• 333 • One end anchored
• 334 • Anchors at alternate ends
• 335 • Radially guided shoe
• 336 • Continuous split band
• 337 • Anchored intermediate ends
• 338 • Rotary cam operatively abutting band ends
• 339 • Rotary cam operatively abutting band ends
• 340 • Lateral guide for shoe
• 341 • Anchor
• 342 • Self-energizing
• 343 • Wedge operator
• 79.51 • Having wear take up or compensating structure
• 79.52 • Temperature responsive
• 79.53 • Feeler actuated
• 79.54 • Actuated in conjunction with other braking element
• 79.55 • Actuated by brake operating lever
• 79.56 • Having separate adjustment actuator mechanism
• 79.57 • Manually operated
• 79.58 • Brake operator length adjusted
• 79.59 • Mounted between shoe and a support member
• 79.61 • Causes direct, simultaneous adjustment of plural shoes
• 79.62 • Located on or in an operator
• 79.63 • Mounted between shoe and a support member
• 79.64 • Between plural supporting shoes
• 80 • Rotary shoes
• 82.1 • One-way brakes
• 82.2 • Reversible
• 82.3 • With disabler
• 82.34 • Integral with engager
• 82.4 • With hold out
• 82.5 • Combined or plural diverse types
• 82.6 • Biased flexible band
• 82.7 • Pivoting or flexing detent (e.g., pawl)
• 82.74 • Axially moving
• 82.77 • On rotating member
• 82.8 • Dragged wedging member
• 82.84 • Rolling
• 82.9 • Axially moving
• 83 • Continuous
• 84 • Fixed brake
• 85 • Intermittent
• 371 • PLASTIC DEFORMATION OR BREAKAGE OF RETARDER ELEMENT (E.G., IMPACT ABSORBER)
• 372 • And subsequent reverse deformation
• 373 • Element twisted
• 374 • Element extruded through or around tool
• 375 • Element severed by cutting tool
• 376 • Frangible element
• 377 • Crushable element
• 378 • INERTIA OF DAMPING MASS DISSIPATES MOTION (E.G., VIBRATION DAMPER)
• 379 • Resiliently supported damping mass
• 380 • Supported by mechanical spring
• 266 • INTERNAL-RESISTANCE MOTION RETARDER
• 267 • Using magnetic flux
• 267.1 • Electroviscous or electrorheological fluid
• 267.2 • Magnetic fluid or material (e.g., powder)
• 266.1 • Motion damped from condition (e.g., bump, speed change) detected outside of retarder
• 266.2 • Condition actuates valve or regulator
• 266.3 • Of the rotary type
• 266.4 • Having plural openings
• 266.5 • Of the pulsating or reciprocating type
• 266.6 • Side mounted
• 266.7 • Piezoelectric
• 266.8 • With failure or malfunction detection
• 268 • Using yieldable or fluent solid or semisolid
• 269 • Using diverse fluids
• 270 • Operating against ambient atmosphere
• 271 • Combined with surface-friction brake
• 272 • Combined with mechanism retarded by brake
• 273 • Restricting exhaust from engine
• 274 • With heat exchanger
• 275 • With fluid regulated in response to inertia of valve member
• 276 • With means compensating for change in temperature or viscosity
• 277 • Thermostatic valve type
• 278 • Manually adjustable
• 280 • Relative speed of thrust member or fluid flow
• 281 • Resistance alters relative to direction of thrust member (e.g., high resistance in one direction, low in the other)
• 282.1 • Via valved orifice in thrust member
• 282.2 • Valve actuated by electrical system
• 282.3 • System initiated by a pressure change or feedback
• 282.4 • System having distinct selections (e.g., hard, medium, soft)
• 282.5 • Flexible flap-type valve (e.g., compression washers)
• 282.6 • Having flow passage, cutout, aperture, slot, etc.
• 282.7 • Ball-type valve
• 282.8 • Spring-loaded valve
• 282.9 • Adjusting the tension via (a) compressing or expanding or (b) different strength springs
• 283 • Piston having a restrictable opening (e.g., apertured plate) in a fixed volume chamber
• 283.1 • Vortex flow passages
• 284 • Position of thrust member relative to chamber
• 285 • Having a fluid flow passage adjusted manually (e.g., threaded plug, threaded rod, gearing)
• 286 • Having aperture in chamber wall
• 287 • Plural, successively encountered apertures
• 288 • Having varying area of chamber passageway for thrust member
• 289 • Having varying area of metering rod extending through orifice in thrust member
• 290 • Using a rotary-type fluid damper
• 291 • Including clutch
• 292 • Gear pump
• 293 • Driving relatively moving element which causes flow of brake fluid
• 294 • With means for regulating movement of element
• 295 • Comprising rectilinearly reciprocating piston
• 296 • Driving radial vanes which cause toroidal flow of brake fluid
• 297 • Having a thrust member with a variable volume chamber (e.g., coaxial or telescoping tubes, compensating reservoir)
• 298 • Forming flexible wall enclosure for fluid
• 301 • Causing air suction in chamber
• 302 • Rectilinear reciprocation of piston caused by arcuately oscillating frame, shaft, arm, axle, etc.
• 303 • Pistons reciprocating oppositely in nonaligned cylinders
• 304 • Dual pistons
• 305 • Piston reciprocating along axis of oscillation
• 306 • Arcuately oscillating thrust member
• 307 • Resilient or radially urged vane
• 308 • Causing fluid flow through hub of thrust
• 309 • With manually adjusted valve in hub
• 310 • With means for manually adjusting fluid flow
• 312 • Having piston rod extending through ends of chamber
• 313 • With valve controlling fluid flow between chambers or compartments of the chamber
• 314 • With reservoir for fluid
• 315 • Annular reservoir
• 316 • Fluid through or around piston within chamber
• 317 • Via fixed or variable orifice in piston
• 318 • And passage venting fluid external to chamber
• 319.1 • Having an orifice adjustment for both jounce or bound (compression) and rebound
• 319.2 • Orifice size varied using a hand or hand tool
• 320 • Tortuous path orifice
• 322.13 • Valve structure or location
• 322.14 • Foot valve
• 322.15 • Piston valve detail (e.g., seat design, structural arrangement, metering element)
• 322.16 • Including seal or guide
• 322.17 • Between piston rod and cylinder
• 322.18 • Between piston and cylinder
• 322.19 • Cylinder structure
• 322.2 • Having connection for side-mounted valve type
• 322.21 • Having means for filling or recharging
• 322.22 • Thrust member or piston structure
• 322.12 • Including protective shield for retarder
• 321.11 • Including means connecting thrust member to load
• 299.1 • Controlled by an operator (e.g., vehicle driver) remote from retarder
• 300 • With means for locking parts together temporarily
• 322.5 • Using viscosity of fluid medium
• 381 • FRICTIONAL VIBRATION DAMPER
• OPERATORS
• 105 • Multiple
• 106R • Vehicle
• 107 • Railway
• 106F • Fluid and mechanical
• 106A • Inside wheel
• 106P • Plural systems
• 108 • Vehicle step
• 109 • Seat
• 110 • Automatic
• Vehicle
• 111 • Trips
• 112R • Train
• 112A • Anti-sway control
• 113 • Four-wheel
• 114 • Hub
• Auxiliary mechanism on tongue
• 115 • Rear wheel
• 116 • Divided beam
• 117 • Front wheel
• 118 • Divided beam
• Movable tongue
• 119 • Rising and falling
• 120 • Rear wheel
• 121 • Divided beam
• 122 • Front wheel
• 123 • Divided beam
• Railway
• 124 • Train
• 125 • Drawbar
• 126 • Speed-responsive
• 127 • Strain release
• 128 • Sled
• 129 • Rise and fall
• 130 • Rotary
• 131 • Turning
• 132 • Horse pull
• 134 • Differential movement
• 135 • Momentum
• 136 • Wedging shoe
• 137 • Electric control
• 138 • Vehicle
• 139 • Gravity control
• 140R • Vehicle
• 141 • Fluid-pressure control
• 142 • Draft control
• 143 • Wheel and ground
• 144 • Railway
• 145 • Winding
• 146 • Axle
• 147 • Train
• 148 • Push rod
• 149 • Drawbar
• 150 • Speed-responsive
• 140A • Servo brake
• 151R • Fluid pressure
• 152 • Road vehicle
• 344 • Velocipede
• 345 • With multiple master cylinders
• 346 • With friction drag response
• 347 • With hydraulic quick-slack-take-up pulsator
• 348 • With power quick-slack-take-up
• 349 • With front rear brake apportioner
• 350 • With steering gear control
• 351 • With hydraulic automatic slack adjuster
• 352 • With bleeding or filling device
• 353 • With hydraulic lock
• 354 • With independent wheel control
• 355 • With nonmanual fluid-power source
• 356 • Vacuum power
• 357 • And manual
• 358 • Liquid power
• 359 • And manual
• 360 • And manual
• 361 • Wheel brake operating assembly
• 362 • With transversely movable internal brake
• 363 • Motor between shoe ends
• 364 • Dual opposed piston motor
• 365 • Radially acting motor
• 366 • Arcuate or annular motor
• 367 • Axially acting
• 368 • Axially acting motor
• 369 • With axially movable brake member
• 370 • Spot type
• 153R • Rail vehicle
• 153D • Diaphragm
• 153A • Rim grip type
• 154 • Exhaust of propelling motor
• 151A • Safety devices
• 155 • Fluid current
• 156 • Electric and mechanical
• 157 • Electric motor on staff
• 158 • Electric
• 159 • Dynamic
• 160 • Additional current
• 161 • Electromagnet
• 162 • Rotary motor
• 163 • Solenoid
• 164 • Magnetic circuit
• 165 • Rail-engaging
• 166 • Spring
• 167 • Vehicle
• 168 • Draft release
• 169 • Wagon
• 170 • Fluid-pressure release
• 171 • Electric release
• 173 • Vehicle
• 174 • Weight
• 175 • Draft control
• 176 • Vehicle body
• 177 • Inclined
• 178 • Longitudinally movable
• 179 • Float
• Speed-responsive
• 180 • Regulators
• 181R • Vehicle
• 181A • Acceleration responsive
• 181C • Comparative
• 181T • Torque-responsive
• 182 • Fluid and electric control
• 184 • Transversely expanding
• 185 • Radial
• 186 • Transversely contracting
• 187 • Axially moving
• 188 • Strand-engaging
• 189 • Stops
• POSITION ADJUSTERS
• 190 • Vehicle body movement
• 191 • Radius rod
• 192 • Turning
• 193 • Railway
• 194 • Pivoted wheel
• 195 • Load
• 196R • Slack
• 197 • Railway car
• 198 • Automatic
• 199 • Friction clutch
• 200 • Ratchet bar
• 201 • Shims
• 202 • Screw
• 203 • Fluid-operated
• 196A • Fluid
• 196C • Combined
• 196F • Torsional spring
• 196M • Manual
• 196P • Friction
• 196B • Ratchet
• 196BA • Rotatable
• 196D • Frictional rotation
• 196V • Screw, shim or cam
• 204R • Equalizers
• 204A • For strap brakes
• 205R • Supports
• 206R • Brake element
• 207 • Beam
• 208 • Road vehicle
• 209 • Brackets
• 210 • Safety
• 211 • Locks
• 212 • Parallel motion
• 213 • Multiple-point support
• 214 • Wear compensation
• 215 • Brake shoes
• 206A • Anchor
• 205A • Antirattler
• 216 • Release mechanism
• 217 • Brake-thrust distributors
• 218 • ELEMENTS
• 218R • Brake wheels
• 218XL • Disk type
• 218A • Dust guard
• 219.1 • Beams or beam assemblies
• 219.6 • With movable, reversible or adjustable heads
• 220.1 • Pivoted head
• 220.6 • Lockingly adjustable
• 221.1 • Yieldably readjustable
• 222.1 • With fixed head or thrust block
• 222.6 • Integral head and beam
• 223.1 • Trussed beam
• 223.6 • Head or block held by tension element
• 224.1 • Tension adjusted by terminal nut
• 225.6 • Trussed beam
• 226.1 • Integral tension and compression member
• 228.1 • Tubular compression member
• 228.6 • H, I, L, T, U, V, or X cross section compression member
• 229.1 • With strut-type fulcrum
• 229.6 • Reversible
• 231 • With fulcrum
• 232 • Reversible
• 233 • Spaced
• 233.3 • With guides and/or guards
• 233.7 • H, I, L, T, U, V, or X cross section beam
• 234 • Shoe fasteners
• 235 • Locomotive type
• 236 • Heads
• 237 • Combined wheel guards
• 238 • Multiple shoes
• 239 • Superposed
• 240 • Linear arrangement
• 241 • Frangible connection
• 242 • Interlocking heads and shoes
• 243 • Longitudinal key
• 244 • Longitudinal insertion
• 245 • Side insertion
• 246 • Clamps
• 247 • Shoe-back lugs
• 248 • Cast in
• 249 • Flexible shoes
• 250R • Shoes
• 251R • Composite
• 252 • Flanged
• 253 • Recessed
• 254 • Shells
• 255 • Cast metal matrix
• 256 • Nonmetallic inserts
• 257 • Faces
• 258 • Backs
• 259 • Flexible
• 251A • Materials
• 251M • Metallic surfaces
• 260 • Chills
• 261 • Recessed
• 262 • Rotary
• 250A • Transversely expandable
• 250H • One-piece
• 250C • Multiple web
• 250D • Web and flange connections
• 250E • Slotted shoes and vibration dampers
• 250F • Anchor and operator fittings
• 250G • Surfaces and fasteners
• 250B • Shoe construction
• 264R • Cooling and lubricating
• 264A • Air-cooled, axially engaging
• 264AA • Auto wheel type
• 264B • Lubrication
• 264D • Liquid cool
• 264E • Wet friction surface and internal resistance
• 264F • Operating fluid cooling
• 264CC • Contained coolant
• 264G • Insulators
• 264P • With pump
• 264W • External wheel covers
• 265 • Locks
• 382 • MISCELLANEOUS
• DIG.001 • 1 PANIC BRAKING
• DIG.002 • 2 HILL HOLDER
• DIG.003 • 3 PROGRESSIVE BRAKING