US 7,513,341 B2
Combined service brake and spring-loaded brake cylinder with internal ventilation
Jakob Lachermeier, Freising (Germany)
Assigned to Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, Munich (Germany)
Filed on Apr. 04, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/98,107.
Application 12/098107 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2006/009090, filed on Oct. 05, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 047 872 (DE), filed on Oct. 06, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2008/0284241 A1, Nov. 20, 2008
Int. Cl. F01B 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 188—170  [188/153 D; 92/63; 92/82] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A combined service brake and spring-loaded brake cylinder, comprising:
a) a pressure-loaded diaphragm, which is arranged in a housing of a service brake cylinder and which delimits, on one side, a service brake chamber acted upon with service brake pressure and, on the other side, a chamber which holds a restoring spring;
b) a spring brake piston, which is arranged in a housing of the spring-loaded brake cylinder and which is actuatable by a preloaded spring and which delimits, on one side, a spring brake chamber and, on the other side, a spring chamber which holds a preloaded spring and which has a piston rod;
c) an air-bleed valve, carried in the piston rod, which air-bleed valve produces or blocks a flow connection between the spring chamber and the service brake chamber;
wherein the air-bleed valve comprises:
(1) a piston which carries a valve body, which piston is guided in an axially movable manner in a cylinder, with at least one first pressure spring supported on the piston loading the valve body against a first valve seat on the piston;
(2) the piston is loaded by at least one second pressure spring, which is supported against the piston rod, such that the valve body is forced in a direction of a second valve seat on the piston rod and away from the first valve seat;
(3) a first piston face of the piston is loaded by pressure in the spring chamber in a direction which lifts the valve body from the second valve seat, and a second piston face is loaded by pressure in the service brake chamber in a direction which forces the valve body against the second valve seat and lifts said valve body up from the first valve seat; and
(4) a flow connection between the service brake chamber and the spring chamber is produced when the valve body is lifted up from the first valve seat and/or when the valve body is lifted up from the second valve seat.