US Patent Issued to Caljan on Sept. 15 for "Brake shoe" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,265, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Caljan A/S (Hasselager, Denmark).

"Brake shoe" was invented by Karsten Beuchert (Hedensted, Denmark) and Anders Orgaard Kloster (Skodstrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake shoe is provided including two engagement bodies, where the engagement bodies are connected by a threaded axle, such that by rotating the threaded axle in a first direction around a rotation axis parallel to the axle, the engagement bodies are urged towards each other, and by rotating the axle in a second direction different from the first direction, the engagement bodies are urged away from each other, and w...