Patent ID: 6832966
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: F16H

Abstract:
A guide for a flexible traveling power transmission medium comprising an elongated guide body composed of an elongated shoe having a front surface for sliding contact with the power transmission medium and a back side, and a plate-receiving portion extending longitudinally along the back side of said shoe and having a longitudinally extending slot open in a direction opposite to the direction in which said front surface of the shoe faces, the shoe and plate-receiving portion being integrally molded as a unit from a synthetic resin, and a reinforcing plate fitting into said slot,wherein the guide body has a mounting hole adjacent one end of the guide body, and the reinforcing plate has a through hole adjacent one end of the reinforcing plate, the elongated mounting hole and the through hole being substantially coaxial with each other whereby an attachment means, inserted through said mounting and through holes can support the guide body and reinforcing plate on a frame of an engine, and wherein the diameter of said through hole is greater than the diameter of said mounting hole.