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Disclosed is a locking differential (10) including an oil lubricated clutch assembly (18) having a plurality of interleaved friction discs (48, 50, 60, and 62) formed of steel and squeezed together to retard relative rotation of differential side gears (32 and 34). Adjacent friction discs have mutua

Disclosed is a locking differential (10) including an oil lubricated clutch assembly (18) having a plurality of interleaved friction discs (48, 50, 60, and 62) formed of steel and squeezed together to retard relative rotation of differential side gears (32 and 34). Adjacent friction discs have mutually facing friction surfaces. One of each mutually facing friction surface is defined by the metal forming the disc and the other surface is defined by a pyrolytic carbon composite friction material (78). In one form, the friction material includes a meshed cloth substrate formed of carbon fibers, which may be woven into a single layer of cloth, and a coating of carbon deposited on the fibers by chemical vapor deposition to a level forming a friction material having a relatively open mesh which is readily penetrated by an adhesive to improve bonding of the friction material to the discs.

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In a clutch or brake device including at least two members mounted for relative rotation, each member having a friction surface rotatable therewith and confronting each other, means to frictionally engage said confronting surfaces to retard said relative rotation, and a cooling liquid in contact wit

In a clutch or brake device including at least two members mounted for relative rotation, each member having a friction surface rotatable therewith and confronting each other, means to frictionally engage said confronting surfaces to retard said relative rotation, and a cooling liquid in contact with said confronting surfaces, the improvement comprising: a pyrolytic carbon composite friction material defining at least one of said confronting surfaces, said friction material including a meshed cloth substrate having a discernible surface texture formed of carbon fibers, and a coating of carbon deposited on said fibers by chemical vapor deposition to a level forming a friction material having a relatively open mesh with the surface texture of said substrate being substantially the same after said coating is applied. In a clutch or brake device including at least two members mounted for relative rotation, each member having a friction surface rotatable therewith and confronting each other, and means to frictionally engage said confronting surfaces to retard said relative rotation, the improvement comprising: a pyrolytic carbon composite friction material defining at least one of said confronting surfaces, said friction material including a meshed circuit substrate having a discernible surface texture formed of carbon fibers, and a coating of carbon deposited on said fibers by chemical vapor deposition to a level forming a friction material having a relatively open mesh with the surface texture of said substrate being substantially the same after said coating is applied.