Guide Rail and Method for Manufacturing Same
AssigneePacific Bearing Company
InventorRobert Schroeder
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Abstract
A guide rail that includes a base rail having a channel therein and at least one finger extending from a portion of the channel. The guide rail further includes a race insert mounted against the at least one finger. In an embodiment of the invention, the race insert has a first and second raceway associated with the at least one finger extending from a portion of the channel. Further, the first and second raceways have different load transmission directions, wherein the load transmission directions of both the first and second raceways are oblique to the direction that the at least one finger extends from a portion of the channel.
Claims12
A method of forming a guide rail comprising the steps of:
- forming a channel within a base rail, wherein the channel includes one or more fingers extending towards an opening of the channel;
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- fixedly mounting a race insert, having two raceways angled with respect to each other, within the channel such that the race insert is pressed into contact with each of the one or more fingers;
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- wherein mounting the race insert includes deforming each of the one or more fingers in the channel such that each of the one or more fingers is biased against the race insert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.