Hand brake

When hand brakes braking systems are referred to, which are operated by muscle power by hand.

In most cases, brake pads or brake shoes by a hand lever or a crank gear against the tread, the wheel or the brake disc of the vehicle wheels to be pressed and reduced by the frictional rotation thereof. The levers and cranks can press the brake pads directly or through other rods or cables. For rail vehicles, the mechanical brake was originally designed as a hand brake.

In automotive engineering, the most hand-operated parking brake is also known as handbrake. For people with physical disabilities who can not use or restricted the standard pedal of your vehicle, it commonly takes a change of the service brake on a manual operation. This is also referred to in this context area as a " parking brake ", regardless of the possibility of confusion with the parking brake. In some vehicles (mainly Mercedes) the parking brake is actuated by a pedal.

Modern bicycles have at least one hand brake; see bicycle brake.

For railways the handbrake both for securing vehicles against elopement and for regulating the speed for certain shunting and stopping of trains with disturbed air brake is used. It is operated from the vehicle, is usually performed as a spindle brake and acts directly ( mechanically ) on the pads of the vehicle. See also section Mechanical brake in Article Brake ( railway)

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