Stand for supporting a drilling tool
AssigneeHilti Aktiengesellschaft
InventorWolfgang Erdt
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Abstract
In a stand for supporting a drilling tool, a guide block is movably supported on a guide column. The drilling tool is attached to the guide block. Rollers are mounted in the guide block and contact the guide column for effecting rolling movement of the block along the column. Elastic members associated with the rollers assure contact between the rollers and the column.
Claims3
Stand for supporting a drilling tool comprising an elongated guide column, a guide block mounted on said guide column for movement in the elongated direction thereof, rollers rotatably supported in said guide block and in contact with said guide column for movably displacing said guide block along said guide column, means for elastically maintaining contact between said rollers and said guide column, said means for elastically maintaining contact comprises an elastic sleeve-like jacket laterally encircling and closely fitted on at least certain of said rollers so that said jacket bears in rotating contact with the surface of said guide column, thereby permitting a flexible adjustment of the rollers in said guide block to the surfaces of said guide column along which said rollers move.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.