Guide for flexible transmission member

A guide for a flexible transmission member, comprising a base having a support surface and a pair of lateral rims positioned on both sides of the support surface in a width direction, and a shoe having a running surface in sliding contact with a running flexible transmission member and a pair of lateral edges positioned on both sides of the running surface in the width direction, the base and the shoe being joined together by an interlock structure formed by a base-side mating part of the base and a shoe-side mating part of the shoe so that the support surface supports the shoe on a backside of the shoe, wherein

• the base-side mating part includes one or more base-side lateral mating parts provided in the lateral rims of the base, and a support-side mating part provided in the support surface,
• the shoe-side mating part includes one or more shoe-side lateral mating parts provided in the lateral edges of the shoe, and a backside mating part provided in the backside,
• the base-side lateral mating part and the shoe-side lateral mating part that mesh with each other form a lateral interlock structure,
• the support-side mating part and the backside mating part that mesh with each other form an opposite interlock structure,
• the lateral interlock structure in the meshed state restricts relative displacement between the base and the shoe at least in a longitudinal direction of the longitudinal direction and a height direction,
• the opposite interlock structure in the meshed state restricts relative displacement between the base and the shoe in the height direction,
• at least one of the base-side lateral mating part and the shoe-side lateral mating part and at least one of the support-side mating part and the backside mating part are elastic mating parts having one or more elastically deformable elastic mating elements, and
• the lateral interlock structure and the opposite interlock structure are a snap-fit joint in which the meshed state is achieved through elastic deformation of the elastic mating elements that occurs in a moving process during assembly in which the shoe moves relative to the base in the height direction to be attached to the base.