Device for linearly guiding a machine element

US4030191A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SKF Industrial Trading & Development Company, B.V. · NL

Inventors

• Horst M. Ernst · Eltingshausen, DE
• Armin Olschewski · Schweinfurt, DE
• Manfred Brandenstein · Aschfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 1976
• Grant date: Jun 21, 1977
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2322/39
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A machine element is guided for linear movement along an I-beam by means of two endless rows of rolling elements on each side of the beam. The raceways for the roll bodies under load extend along the inner edges of the flanges of the beam, the raceways being positioned so that the force action lines on the roll bodies in the two raceways on each side of the beam converge in a direction away from the respective side of the beam.