Link-band cover

A link-band cover for guideways and moving parts of machine tools, and for other structural elements of the latter that could lead to accidents unless specifically protected against damage and destruction, said cover in combination comprising:

• individual rigid strips that are sequentially arranged in alignment with each other side-by-side in a plane;
• each of said strips having long sides, with adjacent long sides of adjacent ones of said strips each being provided with a respective slot that is open toward said adjacent strip and that has an undercut base;
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• hinge members in the form of hinge eyes introduced into each slot and disposed between each two adjacent strips to pivotably interconnect the latter, with each hinge eye being inserted and anchored in a spacing from each other, said hinge eyes being readily interchanged due to being replaceable and interchangeable in one of said slots of said strips;
• hinge eyes between two adjacent strips also being aligned on a pivot shaft for an axially aligned movement relative to each other with adjacent hinge eyes between two strips being anchored in said slots of different ones of said two strips in a manner protected against damage and destruction via hot chips encountered during machine tool operation, wherein each of said long sides of a given one of said strips is provided with a concave groove that conforms to the radius of said hinge eyes, with each of said slots opening into a respective one of said concave grooves, and wherein each of said hinge eyes has a longitudinal slot formed by two parallel legs, each leg having an end that is bent outwardly away from the other leg.