Abstract: A handbrake arrangement for a single cylinder, truck-mounted, railway car brake assembly comprising a lever system mounted on the body of the single brake cylinder, which is, in turn, mounted on one of a pair of truck brake beams. The lever system is connected to the handbrake chain, so that operation of the handwheel effects relative movement between the brake cylinder body and brake cylinder push rod. This results in the truck brake beams being spread apart into braking position in the same manner as occurs during a pneumatic brake application, via the respective brake beam, transfer levers and force-transmitting connecting rods that extend between the brake beams.

Abstract: This invention relates to a braking apparatus wherein the heat absorbing mass of a rotating braked element, such as a vehicle wheel, is increased by securing to such as each wheel of a vehicle, a brake drum, the peripheries of the wheels and drums constituting braking surfaces against which a plurality of brake shoes are pressed during a brake application by a movable member between which and each pair of the plurality of brake shoes there is interposed an equalizer lever that is pivoted intermediate its ends on the movable member, each equalizer lever being thereby rockable relative to the movable member to enable each one of the corresponding pair of brake shoes to transmit substantially the same braking force to the braking surface braked thereby notwithstanding the rate of wear of either one of any pair of brake shoes exceeding that of the other brake shoes.