258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-188.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 188 Brakes. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:03 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120037580/description.html

Application Number:  20120037580

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  KIM, DOWAN

Provided is a financial device, which comprises a medium cassette, a cassette box, and a shock prevention apparatus. The medium cassette accommodates a medium. The medium cassette is installed on the cassette box. The shock prevention apparatus is disposed between a portion of the medium cassette and a portion of the cassette box facing the portion of the medium cassette. The shock prevention apparatus prevents a shock from being applied to the medium cassette while the medium cassette is ...
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Application Number:  20120037470

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Mahoudeaux, Roger; Laurencin, Xavier

The cartridge (22) comprises a body (24), a rotary control plate (28) driving a push plate (30) in a translational movement, elastic means (38) of compressing the push plate (30) towards the control plate (28), and a cage (40) for holding the elastic means (38). The body (24) comprises a projection (42) for attaching the cage (40), collaborating with an attachment orifice (46) formed in an axial tab ...
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Application Number:  20120037469

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  JUAN, Teng-Yi

An air pressure buffer stick comprises a pressure cylinder, a piston including an air through hole, and a moving rod having a first end connected to the piston. The first end of the moving rod is disposed in the pressure cylinder. A second end of the moving rod extends out of an open end of the pressure cylinder, and an end of the pressure cylinder opposite the open end is closed. The moving rod connected with the piston is allowed to move to and fro in the pressure cylinder. By such ...
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Application Number:  20120037468

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  CHEN, SONG-YA

A shock absorber includes a cylinder, at least two magnetic blocks, and a connection rod. The cylinder includes a first end, an opposite second end defining a slide hole, and absorption particles are filled in the slide hole. The at least two magnetic blocks are fit in the slide hole and the proximate end surfaces of two adjacent magnetic block have the same magnetism. The connection rod includes a flange portion and a rod portion. The flange portion defines a receiving hole for receiving one ...
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Application Number:  20120037467

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KOKOTT, Kordian; Nillert, Tabea; Kuhn, Ulrich

A brake disc pot for a motor vehicle disc brake having one or two brake discs includes a device for the centered attachment of the brake disc and a device for guiding cooling air in the radial direction toward the brake disc. The brake disc pot has recesses on its ...
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Application Number:  20120037466

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Lee, Jae Young; Kim, Seong Jin; Han, Jai Min; Kim, Yoon Cheol; Kim, Shin Gyu

A method of manufacturing a brake drum for a vehicle is provided, which comprises: bonding at a temperature of 500° C. or higher a braking surface of a brake drum which is made of a gray cast iron material with a housing which is to accommodate the braking surface and is made of an aluminum alloy material; and removing residual stress that remains in the gray cast iron material by heating the braking surface at a temperature of about 600° C. The brake drum can improve fuel efficiency of a ...
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Application Number:  20120037465

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Isono, Hiroshi; Denou, Yoshitomo; Abe, Kenji

A braking device is provided with a pad having hard particles on a wavelike friction surface, and a disc having a hard layer on a wavelike friction surface which slides on the wavelike friction surface. The wavelike friction surface has a groove portion in a direction in which the wavelike friction surfaces slide on each other, and the wavelike friction surface has a protruding portion which abuts on the groove. Therefore, the actual contact area between the friction surfaces having the hard ...
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Application Number:  20120037464

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Stocker, Werner

A disk brake for a railway vehicle is provided. The disk brake includes a brake disk, a brake caliper encompassing the brake disk, the brake caliper pressing a brake lining disposed on a brake lining retainer against the brake disk in case of actuation via a brake lever. The brake lever and the brake lining retainer are connected to each other by a hinged connection, wherein the brake lever and the brake lining retainer are electrically insulated from each ...
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Application Number:  20120037463

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Baumgartner, Johann; Pericevic, Aleksandar; Gruber, Robert; Geissler, Steffen

A wet-running multi-disc brake includes stator discs, which are arranged in parallel to and at a distance from each other in a rotationally fixed manner, and a rotatable rotor disc positioned in each case between the stator discs. The radially extending stator discs and rotor discs can be pressed against one another during braking by way of a brake application device while overcoming a clearance. The wet-running multi-disc brake is designed such that the brake application device can be ...
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Application Number:  20120037033

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Reese, Nathan; Monaco, Jay; Halford, Joseph; Compton, Doug

A brake beam wear liner for receiving a brake beam assembly includes a base wall extending between a rear end and front end. The base wall has opposite side edges. The base wall has a tapered thickness between the rear end and the front end with the base wall being thicker proximate to the rear end and being narrower proximate to the front end. The brake beam wear liner also includes side walls extending from the opposite side edges and flanges extending outward from the side walls generally ...
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Application Number:  20120037032

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Monaco, Jay; Halford, Joseph; Becker, Stephen W.

A brake beam wear liner for receiving a brake beam assembly of a railway car truck includes a base wall having an inner surface and an outer surface extending between opposite side edges, and having a base wall thickness between the inner surface and the outer surface thereof. The brake beam wear liner also includes sidewalls extending from the opposite side edges. The sidewalls have inner surfaces and outer surfaces, and have a sidewall thickness between the inner surface and the outer surface ...
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Application Number:  20120032500

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  TAMURA, Hiroshi

The present invention provides a hydraulic brake apparatus of a motorcycle, including a main frame having a pair of right and left frame members extending rearward from a head pipe, and equipment arranged in a space between the right and left frame members, the hydraulic brake apparatus further including at least one brake fluid pipe, wherein the at least one brake fluid pipe is arranged so as to extend rearward from near the head pipe along an upper surface at least one of the frame ...
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Application Number:  20120032410

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Liu, Julian

There is provided a walker apparatus having a frame, a wheel pivotally connected to the frame, and a brake pad assembly. The assembly has a brake housing configured to partially cover the wheel. The assembly has a brake pad mechanism including a brake pad lever pivotally mounted to the housing. The brake pad lever is actuated via a first end and has a second end spaced-apart therefrom. The brake pad mechanism has a brake pad connected to the brake pad lever adjacent to the second end of the ...
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Application Number:  20120031720

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Goscinski, Brian

A modified mono-tube shock is a lighter shock with less rod pressure, less seal drag, a greater range of valving, and faster heat dissipation. The shock includes an outer body, a shaft piston, a plurality of deflective discs, and a divider piston, wherein the divider piston is installed at a particular location inside the shock to create a gas ...
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Application Number:  20120031719

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  LIAO, Wei Hsin; CHEN, Chao

Disclosed is a self-powered and self-sensing MR damping device, comprising: an MR damper part having a damper piston assembly and a damper cylinder, the damper piston assembly being movable relative to the damper cylinder under an external excitation; a power generator configured to generate electrical power according to the relative movement between the damper piston and the cylinder assembly; and an electrical circuit configured to estimate said relative movement to output a damper driving ...
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Application Number:  20120031718

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Arbesman, Ray; Pham, Nghi; Kahan, Stewart

A modular brake pad is provided. The pad is made up of a brake backing plate and at least one pre-molded friction element. The friction element is releasably attached to the backing plate using an arrangement of guide rails. The friction element may also be locked to the plate by means of a releasable locking pin that extends through the plate into the friction element. An optional intermediary shim portion can also be provided on the friction ...
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Application Number:  20120031717

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Shaw, Edward Gilbert; Potter, Laurence John; Prescott, Robert David

A brake actuator (10) having a housing (12) in which is provided a movable brake actuating assembly (18, 30), the brake actuating assembly (18, 30) being movable between a brake apply position which, in use results in the application of a brake to which the actuator (10) connected, and a brake release position which, in use, results in the release of the brake, the brake actuator (10) further including a lock (34) which is operable to prevent ...
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Application Number:  20120031716

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Banks, Daniel E.; Chamberlin, Michael A.; Runels, Thomas L.; Clark, James R.; Flodin, Troy A.

An anchor assembly is provided that permits adjustment of the brake shoes in a drum brake to account for wear. The assembly includes first and second adjuster shafts each having a plurality of threads and first and second pilot connectors. The pilot connectors each have a plurality of threads in engagement with the threads of a corresponding adjuster shaft. The pilot connectors each engage one end of a corresponding brake shoe. Rotation of each adjuster shaft causes longitudinal movement of a ...
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Application Number:  20120031715

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  CONWAY, EDWARD R.

The present invention provides industrial spring applied caliper braking systems which include a friction disc, a spring applied thruster and a caliper base comprising a friction facing. The caliper base is selectively activated by the spring applied thruster to apply said friction facing to the friction disc, and deactivated upon the application of a minimum pressure to release said friction facing from said friction disc. The braking system further includes a roller guide assembly including a ...
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Application Number:  20120031714

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Chen, Ruibin; Cui, Zong-Wang

A brake mechanism for a stroller includes an axle, a wheel and at least one brake fixing seat disposed at an inner side of the wheel. The brake fixing seat includes a brake assembly and a fixing seat. The brake assembly includes a pedal assembly and a brake member. The brake member has at least one abutting portion and at least one brake arm. The brake assembly includes a pushing member for pushing the abutting portion. A brake hub is disposed at the inner side of the wheel. A plurality of ...
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Application Number:  20120031713

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Zimmer, Günther; Zimmer, Martin

In a frictional engagement arrangement for a carriage supported on, and guided by, at least one guide track and provided with a friction engagement mechanism actuated by a slide wedge drive which includes a pressure member which is engageable with the guide track, the slide wedge drive includes an operating mechanism which is arranged in a multistep through bore extending in parallel with the longitudinal extent of the guide track with the pressure member and a slide wedge cage movably disposed ...
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Application Number:  20120031701

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Jones, Karl

A speed responsive engagement device for use in a fall arrest system has a ratchet wheel having outwardly projecting spaced apart teeth and a pawl arranged for pivotal movement to engage the ratchet wheel teeth. The pawl and the ratchet wheel are rotatable relative to one another such that when relative rotation occurs between the ratchet wheel and the pawl in a first direction the pawl contacts the ratchet wheel, generating an oscillating movement of the pawl with an amplitude dependent on the ...
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Application Number:  20120031516

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Yori, III, Richard B.; Lioi, Paul

A system and method for the manufacture of aircraft landing gear axle equipment is provided of two primary steps: hot pierce and tube solid billet stock; and flow form process. The hot pierce and tube process converts a standard solid round billet by heating it well beyond its annealing temperature. The billet is then pierced with a lance and hot rolled into a seamless tube. The tube is then precision flow formed as an incremental metal forming technique in which a tube of metal is formed over ...
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Application Number:  20120024648

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  YANG, HSIN-YUNG; LIN, CHING-MIN; LIU, TZU-YUAN

A portable device includes a curved base housing a motion sensor, a pendulum, and a motor. The pendulum slides inside the curved base in response to the tilting of the portable device to prevent the portable device from falling over. The motor may generate a torque to tilt the portable device. The motion sensor may detect a tilt angle of the portable ...
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Application Number:  20120024647

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  NISHIMURA, Makoto

The present invention provides a cylinder apparatus processing method capable of preventing a base shell from bending which otherwise would be caused due to a residual stress generated when the base shell is processed. The cylinder apparatus processing method comprises securely holding an outer diameter of the base shell 1 with a mandrel 5 inserted therethrough with use of a holder die 4, and forming a recess 2 on the base shell 1 by locally applying crush ...
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Application Number:  20120024646

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Tsugihashi, Kazuki; Yamaguchi, Zenzo; Sugimoto, Akio; Masuda, Kyoko; Yano, Yoshio

The present invention provides a damping structure capable of obtaining a sufficient damping effect even against vibrations with small amplitudes, by promoting movements of powder/particle materials in a hollow body. In the damping structure of the invention, a damping member 2 is provided on a structure 1 to be damped. The damping member 2 is composed of a hollow body 5, a powder/particle material 3 which is filled in the hollow body 5 with partially ...
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Application Number:  20120024645

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Tsugihashi, Kazuki; Yamaguchi, Zenzo; Sugimoto, Akio; Masuda, Kyoko; Yano, Yoshio

According to the invention, there is provided a damping structure capable of obtaining a sufficient damping effect even against vibrations of small amplitudes, by promoting movements of powder/particle materials inside a hollow body. In the damping structure of the invention, a damping member 2 is provided on a structure 1 to be damped. The damping member 2 includes a hollow body 5 which is filled with powder/particle materials 3, partially leaving a space ...
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Application Number:  20120024644

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  TATSUDA, Yoshinori

A main shaft drive includes a supply groove that opens to a friction surface, that extends so as to surround a main shaft within a contact range where the friction surface and a pressing surface oppose each other, and that includes an intersecting groove and a discharge opening. The intersecting groove extends in a direction of intersection with a circumference in which a rotational center of the main shaft is a center. The discharge opening is connected to a location that is outside the ...
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Application Number:  20120024643

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Crippa, Cristian; Tupputi, Antonio

A pad (20) for disc brakes comprises a plate (22) acting as the support for a friction material layer (24). The plate (22) extends past the friction material layer (24) at least at a radially outer portion (E) of the pad. At least one load (30a, 30b) is applied to the plate (22) and fixed thereto by means of clinching. This load changes the mass of at least one portion of the plate such as to obtain an inertia of the pad ...
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Application Number:  20120024642

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Shaw, Edward Gilbert; Potter, Laurence John; Prescott, Robert David

A brake actuator and control valve assembly, the brake actuator (10) having a housing (12) in which is provided a movable assembly (18, 20, 30) including: a brake actuating element (20) which is adapted, in use to be connected to a vehicle brake, the movable assembly (18, 20, 30) being movable from a brake apply position which, in use, results in the application of the brake, and a brake release position which, in use, results in the release of the brake, the ...
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Application Number:  20120024641

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Ito, Takahiro; Iida, Takao

An object is to stably exhibit a two-stage spring characteristic of a plate spring for restraining the generation of a clonk noise in a disc brake apparatus for use in a vehicle. A plate spring 90 for restraining the generation of a clonk noise has a fixture portion 91 having a shape resembling the squarish letter U and elastically fixed to a back plate 61, and an extension portion 92 extending continuously from the fixture portion 91. The extension portion ...
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Application Number:  20120024640

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  ARGOUD, Rodolphe

An energy absorbing device including a casing, fastening means for fastening the casing to a fixed point, a first cable portion wound inside the casing, connection means attached to the first cable portion and designed to be connected to a lifeline, a friction ring mounted on the first cable portion so as to exert a clamping force on the latter, and stop means against which the friction ring is designed to bear, where the clamping force exerted by the friction ring on the first cable portion is ...
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Application Number:  20120024639

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Castro, Ursi

An electronic brake device for use with a wheel of a bicycle provides, among other features, wireless, remote disengagement of a wheel brake. A brake coupled to a housing is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The housing includes a receiver configured to receive a command signal, and a processor operative to identify the received command signal. If the command signal is identified as a first command signal, the processor outputs a first control signal. An electric ...
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Application Number:  20120019050

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Feusse, Craig

A braking mechanism is provided for a hydraulic motor driven wheel utilizing a two-piece design of a hub that rotates by means of a drive shaft. A hydraulic chamber is created on the hub in which a piston resides. The piston is grounded (i.e., non-rotatable relative to the motor housing) in the sealed chamber. The piston face inside of the chamber has a radial set of face teeth. These face teeth are similar to the face teeth inside of the hydraulic chamber. When the chamber is pressurized, the ...
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Application Number:  20120018967

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Chen, Wang-Chuan

A scooter includes a board for supporting the user thereof, at least one wheel assembly mounted on the board for facilitating movement and transportation of the board, and a braking system operable in a first mode that engages with and imparts a braking force to the at least one wheel assembly for stopping the scooter, and in a second mode that is subject to a force and is caused to disengage from the at least one wheel assembly for allowing the scooter to be moved without being subject to any ...
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Application Number:  20120018265

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Lampman, Brian; Becker, William M.

A bicycle fork includes a pair of fork leg assemblies, each of the leg assemblies having an upper leg telescopingly engaged with a lower leg. A damping assembly is provided in at least one of the legs. The damping assembly includes lock-out and blow-off compression circuits. These compression circuits are externally adjustable without tools. Furthermore, these two compression circuits may be adjusted independently of each ...
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Application Number:  20120018264

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  King, Lance

In one embodiment, an internal bypass shock absorber is disclosed whose compression and rebound resistance can be independently adjusted and is position dependent. The shock absorber features a fluid flow regulator coupled to a hollow chamber opening of a partially hollow piston rod. The fluid flow regulator may also feature a plurality of compression orifices and rebound orifices, and a compression valve stack and rebound valve stack each having one or more deflection discs. The number, ...
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Application Number:  20120018263

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Marking, John

A vehicle damper comprising a cylinder and a piston; a working fluid within the cylinder; a reservoir in fluid communication with the working fluid to receive working fluid from the cylinder in a compression stroke; and a remotely-operable valve, the valve operable to permit and restrict flow of the working fluid between the cylinder and the ...
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Application Number:  20120018262

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Winkler, Thomas

A combined electromechanical vehicle brake has a hydraulically activated operating brake and an electromechanically activated parking brake apparatus. A hydraulic operating pressure chamber in a brake housing is delimited by a brake piston that can be loaded by hydraulic pressure to carry out operating braking actions. The brake piston can be activated along a longitudinal piston axis to achieve a braking effect. The parking brake apparatus acts upon the brake piston by a gear unit because the ...
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Application Number:  20120018261

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  KWON, Byoung Soo; SON, Dai Seung

A fixing structure of an auxiliary braking device for a utility vehicle is provided, which includes a brake disc mounted on a driving shaft at which an output of a transmission is received; a brake pad mounted at a vehicle body in such a manner as to compress the brake disc by the cooperative operation with the manipulation of a brake lever mounted at a driver seat and to perform a braking operation; and a spline coupling part mounted at one end of the driving shaft in such a manner as to be ...
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Application Number:  20120018260

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Nock, Marco

A brake system of a rail vehicle, having at least one brake actuator with at least one brake disk and at least one brake lining, which interacts with the brake disk, for generating a braking force. Also disclosed is a sensor device to measure the time profile of at least one variable, representing fluctuations in the friction conditions between the wheel or wheel set assigned to the brake actuator and the rail and/or between the brake disk assigned to the brake actuator and the at least one ...
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Application Number:  20120018259

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Prix, Daniel

The present invention relates to a blocking mechanism for the rotationally fixed locking of a shaft, in particular to a parking lock for a shaft of a motor vehicle. The blocking mechanism includes a pawl which is pivotable about a pivot axis and which, in a blocked position, engages into at least one latch cut-out of a ratchet wheel connected to the shaft. The blocking mechanism furthermore includes an actuating mechanism which has an actuating device for moving an actuation slider. The pawl is ...
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Application Number:  20120018258

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  PORTELANCE, Martin; AUGER, Erick; BLAIS, Martin

A rim brake of the side-pull caliper type having two arms pivotally mounted about a common pivoting axis which is laterally offset from the wheel reference ...
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