brake shoe

See also: brakeshoe

English

Alternative forms

• brakeshoe

Noun

brake shoe (plural brake shoes)

1. (mechanical engineering) An element of a drum brake into which the friction-producing brake lining is attached.

   Coordinate term: brake pad

   • 2014, Tom Denton, Automotive Technician Training: Entry Level 3: Introduction to Light Vehicle Technology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 224:

     The rotating action of the brake drum tends to pull one brake shoe harder into contact. This is known as self-servo action. It occurs on the brake shoe, which is after the wheel cylinder, in the direction of wheel rotation.

2. (rail transport) A hard friction-producing element which is pressed against the tread of a wheel to provide braking.
3. (cycling) A brake lining unit in a coaster brake on a bike.

Translations

element of a drum brake

• Catalan: patí de fre m
• Dutch: remschoen (nl) m
• Estonian: piduriklots
• Finnish: jarrukenkä (fi)
• German: Hemmschuh (de) m, Bremsschuh m, Bremsbacke f
• Hungarian: fékpofa (hu), féksaru (hu), féktuskó (hu)
• Irish: crú coscáin m
• Italian: ganascia (it) f
• Spanish: zapata (es) f
• Swedish: bromssko c
• Welsh: gwadn brêc m

Further reading

• brake shoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia