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2. GWR Toad - Wikipedia

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   3 "Toad" brake vans of the Great Western Railway The GWR Toad is a class of railway brake van, designed by and built for the Great Western Railway.Used by the GWR from 1894, and post-1947 by the Western Region of British Railways, its role was a safety brake on goods trains in the West of England, the Midlands and Wales.

3. Press brake - Wikipedia

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   A press brake bending a sheet of steel. A press brake is a type of brake, a machine used for bending sheet metal and metal plate. [1] It forms predetermined bends by clamping the workpiece between a matching top tool and bottom die. [2] Bending process A high-tonnage hydraulic press brake Liwei CNC 2000T 12M Heavy Duty model

4. Machine press - Wikipedia

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   A press brake is a special type of machine press that bends sheet metal into shape. A good example of the type of work a press brake can do is the back-plate of a computer case. Other examples include brackets, frame pieces and electronic enclosures. Some press brakes have CNC controls and can form parts with accuracy to a fraction of a ...

5. Air brake (road vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   Truck air-actuated disc brake. An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to both release the parking/emergency brakes in order to move the vehicle, and also to apply pressure to the brake pads or brake shoes to slow and stop the vehicle.

6. S-cam - Wikipedia

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   As the S-cam rotates, the two symmetrical brake pads are forced against the brake drum until the pressure is released and the brake pads return to their resting position. [ 3 ] The principle of the S-cam allows the brakes of big vehicles to be more compact and less moving parts, since it only relies on a rotating shaft.

7. Brake (sheet metal bending) - Wikipedia

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   Manually driven bending brake Cornice brake Hydraulic press - 400T. A brake is a metalworking machine that allows the bending of sheet metal.A cornice brake only allows for simple bends and creases, while a box-and-pan brake also allows one to form box and pan shapes.