Abstract: Braking unit for vehicle, of the type comprising an axial actuating helical spring maintained in release position, against its elastic reaction force, through a screw-nut system rotatively driven by an electric motor, the spring acting upon the brake through the intermediary of a hydraulic master cylinder of which the piston is axially connected to an abutment ring of the spring also mechanically connected, via a screw-nut system to the rotor of an electric motor, such an unit being applied to a spring braking system for a vehicle possibly with a built-in park brake.

Abstract: Disc brake for rail vehicles having a brake clamp (7) located in one plane and having two brake levers (4) having their central portions connected by a pull rod (5). The latter is formed with a rotatable threaded spindle (9) as a stay, which spindle is rotatable from the brake cylinder (15) by means of a turning lever having a play adjustment device. The axle (16) of the brake cylinder (15) extends perpendicularly to the plane (8) of the brake clamp (7) between the two brake levers (4) and between the pull rod (5) and a bearing block (6) for the brake lever ends, at a distance from the brake disc. The brake cylinder (15) carries the bearing block for the brake lever ends and a carrier arm (22) for the pendulum suspensions (24) of the brake shoes (2).

Abstract: A spot type brake having a disc or preferably ring brake member comprises a pair of brake pads on opposite sides of the brake member and a caliper with a hydraulic actuating unit for clamping the brake pads into engagement the brake member along a braking axis. The piston of the hydraulic actuating unit cooperates with a first brake pad and a bearing surface on the caliper cooperates with a second brake pad. The center or area of the bearing surface is circumferentially offset upstream or behind the braking axis relative to the direction of rotation of the brake member but the actuating unit is centered with respect to the first brake pad.

Abstract: A railway truck has a pair of radial axles with journal bearings at their ends and an adaptor mounted on each journal bearing and arranged to support the truck framing for steering movements of the respective axles with respect thereto, rigid links connecting the diagonally opposite axle bearing adaptors via bifurcated yokes to accommodate horizontal turning movements in opposite senses of the respective axles, the adaptors being mounted on the axle bearings to permit limited relative movement of the axle bearings and of the respective axles transversely of the truck with respect to the adaptors, whereby to permit the respective axles, while held in parallelism by the diagonal links, to move transversely of the truck with respect to each other sufficiently to follow transverse offsets in the track rails such as may occur at turnouts and the like without placing excessive strains on the bearing adaptors and linkages.

Abstract: A radial axle railway truck is provided with a disc brake system compatible with the radial axles comprising a single disc at the center of each axle adapted to be frictionally engaged by opposing shoes of a disc brake mechanism, the disc brake mechanism associated with each axle being supported by a yoke anti-rotatably mounted solely on truck framing supporting adaptors mounted on the axle bearings to take braking torque while accommodating free pivoting movement of the brake mechanism in the horizontal plane in accordance with movements of the axles from their tangent track positions to their curved track radial positions, such that no forces are applied by the disc brake mechanisms to the respective axles in opposition to the steering forces acting on the respective axles.