Spindle drive unit
AssigneeDeutsche Star GmbH
InventorsRoland Greubel, Joachim Kunkel
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Abstract
A spindle drive unit includes a spindle having a spindle axis and an external circumferential surface and a nut embracing the spindle and being in threaded engagement with the spindle. In an axial end portion of the nut a wiper assembly is removably fixed to the nut. The wiper assembly has at least one sealing ring in wiping engagement with the external circumferential surface of the spindle. The wiper assembly is removably connected to an adapter in a rotationally fixed manner, the adapter in turn being directly and removably connected to the nut in an axially and rotationally fixed manner. The use of the adapter enables the wiper assemblies of various constructions or with different numbers of sealing rings to be attached to a conventional nut.
Claims51
A spindle drive unit, comprising
- a spindle having a spindle axis and an external circumferential surface,
- a nut embracing said spindle and being in threaded engagement with said spindle,
- at least one wiper assembly comprising at least one wiper member in wiping engagement with said external circumferential surface of said spindle, and
- an adapter being arranged axially between said nut and said wiper assembly,
- said nut, said wiper assembly and said adapter being formed independently from each other,
- said adapter being an annular ring member and being directly and removably fastenable to said nut at an axial end portion thereof in an axially and rotationally fixed manner,
- said nut having an internal circumferential surface at said axial end portion serving as a support seat for said adapter, said adapter having an axially projecting annular rib serving as a support projection engageable with the support seat, and said adapter having a radially and axially extending slot and a bore orthogonal to and opening to the slot, and said adapter being fastenable to said nut by an expander associated with the bore and the slot for widening the slot to expand the adapter radially outwardly go as to engage the support projection on the adapter with the support seat on the nut, whereby the adapter is frictionally retained on the nut,
- said wiper assembly being directly and removably fastenable to said adapter in an axially and rotationally fixed manner, said wiper assembly thus being indirectly and removably fastenable to said nut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.