System for securing guide rails in machine stand
AssigneeHydrel AG
InventorsWerner Dur, Rene Forster
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Abstract
A machine stand having a planar surface is formed with a groove of predetermined width. A precision guide rail slightly narrower than the groove is received in this groove and has an edge confronting and spaced from one of the flanks of the groove. A corrugated spring steel holding element is compressed between the edge of the rail and the flank of the groove and has corrugations extending transverse to the plane of the machine stand.
Claims4
An assembly comprising a machine stand having an elongated body formed with a shallow groove opening at a planar surface, said groove extending along said body and having a pair of longitudinally extending flanks;
- a precision guide rail of a thickness equal to the depth of said groove and received therein, said guide rail extending substantially over the length of said groove and having a face flush with said surface, said guide rail having a width less than the distance between said flanks and having a side defining with one of said flanks a longitudinally extending space while bearing on the other of said flanks;
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- an elongated spring-steel strip received in said space and compressed against said one of said flanks and said side of said rail, said strip having a width equal to that of said side and further having a succession of parallel corrugations whose trough and crest axes extend transversely to said surface and said face, said troughs alternately and directly engaging said one of said flanks and said side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.