Finely adjustable adjusting screw arrangement with arresting means and plain bearing with bearing play adjustment
AssigneeIgus GmbH
InventorHorst Moshammer
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Abstract
An adjusting screw arrangement comprising an adjusting screw (8) and a screwthread receiving means in which the adjusting screw (8) is displaceable in the axial direction by rotation, for providing a self-arresting action and for avoiding a lock nut and an anti-slackening securing means, has a toothed ring (10) connected to the adjusting screw (8) on the same axis, and a coil spring (11) which is arranged substantially perpendicularly to the axis of the adjusting screw, wherein at least one end of the coil spring (11) is fixed so that the turns thereof mesh with the teeth of the toothed ring (10).
Claims6
An adjusting screw arrangement comprising an adjusting screw and a screwthread receiving means in which the adjusting screw is displaceable in the axial direction by rotation, characterized by a toothed ring connected to the adjusting screw on the same axis, and a coil spring which is arranged substantially perpendicularly to the axis of the adjusting screw, and wherein at least one end of the coil spring is fixed so that the turns thereof mesh with the teeth of the toothed ring.
A plain bearing arrangement which has at least one guide rail, with a slide housing, whose surface that is towards the guide rail has a housing bearing with a bearing block, and an adjusting screw acting on the bearing block for adjustment of the bearing play, characterized in that the adjusting screw has a toothed ring non-rotatably connected to the adjusting screw on the same axis and in addition a coil spring is arranged in the slide housing substantially perpendicularly to the axis of the adjusting screw, wherein at least one end of the coil spring is fixed so that the turns thereof mesh with the teeth of the toothed ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.