Abstract: A brake adjuster providing compensation for brake wear. Fundamentally, the invention includes a casing attached to a brake housing and maintaining a spring follower therewithin. A shaft or pin is connected to the pressure plate of a brake assembly and is interconnected with a reshapable tube. The shaft and tube pass through a die which makes swaging engagement with the tube. As the brakes wear, the tube is drawn through the die and is progressively swaged along the length thereof. The spring follower acts against the die to urge the die, tube, and shaft to a return position following release of brake pressure. Such action releases the pressure plate from forceful engagement with the brake disk stack. In an alternative embodiment, the shaft can be eliminated and one end of the reshapable tube can be connected directly to the pressure plate or to a suitable connection member on the pressure plate.

Abstract: A toy karate device having a separable board made from two mating separable pieces held in end to end relationship. The board is provided with a support such as a block placed under each end. Each piece has an edge which mates with the edge of the other piece; each mating edge being irregular in the form of a series of longitudinally extending outwardly converging projections alternately defining therebetween inwardly converging depressions, the projections on one piece extending into the depressions of the opposite piece when the pieces are assembled together such that the projections of one piece overlaps the projections of the other piece, the configuration of the mated edges appearing as a broken board when the pieces are disassembled.