Patent ID: 9534516
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: F01L,F01M,F16H

Claim:
1. A guide shoe having a shoe surface for slidably guiding a running chain, comprising: an oil guide part having a pair of guide walls on the shoe surface, the pair of guide walls each being formed such as to face a rear side in a chain running direction and converge to each other toward a front side in the chain running direction, wherein the oil guide part is formed in plurality both in the chain running direction and in a shoe width direction on the shoe surface, each of the oil guide parts has a wall-pair converging portion where the pair of guide walls converge to each other, and a distance between the plurality of wall-pair converging portions in the shoe width direction as viewed in the chain running direction is set to or smaller than a plate thickness of link plates of the chain.