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US 8,573,024 B2Granted
Wedge drive
AssigneeVoestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH
InventorJochen Lanksweirt
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Abstract
The invention relates to a wedge drive for converting a vertical pressing force, including at least one slider bed, one slider wedge, and one driver; to provide a movable coupling of the slider wedge in the slider bed, at least one bearing lug is provided; the bearing lug reaches through at least one bearing opening in a side wall of the slider bed from the outside and engages in a recess in the slider wedge; the slider wedge is supported on the bearing lug and the bearing lug is supported on a wall delimiting the bearing opening.
Claims6
A wedge drive for converting a vertical pressing force, the wedge drive comprising:
- at least one slider bed;
- one slider wedge;
- one driver;
- and
- at least one bearing lug that provides a movable coupling of the slider wedge in the slider bed;
- wherein the at least one bearing lug reaches through at least one bearing opening in a side wall of the slider bed from outside the slider bed and engages in a recess in the slider wedge;
- the slider wedge is supported on the bearing lug and the bearing lug is supported on a wall delimiting the bearing opening.
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