BRAKE LEVERAGE OF RAILWAY FREIGHT CAR TROLLEY Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B61H13/20 B61H15/00 B61H1/00 

FIELD: transportation.

SUBSTANCE: brake leverage contains vertical levers, the lower ends of which are pivotally connected to the tightening, and one of the levers is pivotally connected by its upper end to the link pivotally connected to the bracket of the dead point of the brake leverage. On the vertical lever, which is not attached to the dead point link, there is a pointer on the outside, oriented along the lever axis drawn from the centres of the upper and the middle openings on the lever. Into the upper opening of the vertical lever a roller is mounted, on which a pendulum located on the outside of the vertical lever is mounted, having a through window in which the index bar is visible.

EFFECT: making it possible to visually determine the critical wear of brake pads without additional measuring instruments.

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