Integral Head And Beam Patents (Class 188/222.6)
  • Pneumatic brake device
    Patent number: 8251187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic brake device having a spindle movable in the axial direction and a yoke, on which the spindle is supported such that a rotation of the spindle is prevented. According to the invention, a first and a second yoke toothed ring having sets of teeth (8; 10) directed toward each other are connected to the yoke in a rotationally fixed manner. Furthermore, a spindle toothed ring with sets of teeth on both sides is rigidly connected to the spindle between the two yoke toothed rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Fuderer, Andre Stegmann
  • Block brake device of a bogie of a rail vehicle
    Patent number: 7165659
    Abstract: A block brake device of a bogie of a rail vehicle containing two wheel sets with two wheels respectively as well as two brake beams each assigned to a wheel axle and extending parallel to the latter, which brake beams carry brake blocks and are mutually connected by way of pressing rods which can be actuated by at least one pressure-medium operated cylinder piston drive for the braking engagement of the brake blocks with assigned braking areas of the wheels. At least a portion of a brake beam forms the cylinder of the cylinder piston drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Staltmeir, Erich Fuderer, Peter Wolfsteiner, Heinrich Ernstberger, Marc-Gregory Elstorpff