Patent ID: 9488223
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: F16C

Claim Text:
1. A guide carriage for use with an elongated guide rail, comprising: a main body having a longitudinal end face; a separate end cap bearing at least indirectly against the longitudinal end face of the main body, the end cap having at least one fastening bore through which a corresponding fastening screw passes, the fastening screw being screwed into the main body; at least one row of rolling bodies accommodated in an assigned continuous bypass channel, the continuous bypass channel having a supporting portion and a return channel that are connected to one another at respective opposite ends via a curved bypass channel, the supporting portion being delimited by a carriage track extending in a longitudinal direction on the guide carriage and a rail track on the guide rail, the curved bypass channel being arranged within the end cap; and at least one lubricant flow path arranged in the end cap, the lubricant flow path extending from a lubrication port to one of the at least one row of rolling bodies, wherein a first cavity is arranged at least between one of the at least one fastening bore and the corresponding fastening screw, the cavity being configured to form a component of one of the at least one lubricant flow path, and wherein a lubrication bore passes through the end cap and extends in the longitudinal direction from an outer longitudinal end face, facing away from the main body, of the end cap, the lubrication bore being arranged on a rolling body side of the first cavity in the corresponding lubricant flow path.