Tensioning device for chains
AssigneeIna Walzlager Schaeffler oHG
InventorThomas Ullein
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Abstract
A tensioning device for a chain (1) comprising a housing (3), said housing (3) carries a first sliding shoe (6) for contact with a first side (7) of the chain (1) with the tensioning device further comprising a tensioning piston (5,23) that is guided on the housing (3) and comprises a second sliding shoe (8,24) for contact with a second side (9) of the chain (1) whereby in an economic and simple-to-manufacture tensioning device, the housing (3) and the first sliding shoe (6) are made in one piece with each other.
Claims21
A chain tensioning device comprising a housing carrying a first sliding shoe for contact with a first side of a chain and a tensioning piston guided on the housing, said tensioning piston comprising a second sliding shoe for contact with a second side of the chain, the housing and the first guiding shoe being made in one piece with each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.