Patent ID: 6733409
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
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 nearly circular, but elongated, mounting hole adjacent one end of the guide body, the elongated mounting hole being elongated in the front to back direction of the shoe, and the reinforcing plate has a circular mounting hole, the elongated mounting hole overlapping the circular mounting hole, and an attachment means, inserted through said circular and elongated mounting holes, and supporting the guide on an inner wall of an engine.