Patent ID: 6089800
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: B23Q,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A protective cover for sliding guides of a mobile part on a machine tool, the cover comprising a set of rigid panels, said panels overlapping one another and being guided in such a way that they can slide relative to one another parallel with the length of the guides on the machine tool; panel pulling means, being designed so that when a first panel moves, driven by the mobile part on the machine tool, the subsequent panels in the set are pulled in succession; the cover being characterized in that the pulling means comprise at least one pulling element, this being attached to the first panel, said first panel being driven parallel with a direction transverse to the set of planes upon which the subsequent panels in the set lie; and pulling element contact faces, these being made on the subsequent panels in the set, and being opposite the pulling element and at different positions along its path, longitudinal to the guides, in such a way that each is intercepted by the pulling element at a different time as the pulling element moves, allowing all of the subsequent panels in the set to be moved by the pulling element.