Patent ID: 7726910

Claim:
A guide assembly for a leg of an offshore jack-up rig, the leg having a plurality of leg chords each carrying rack teeth along a vertical face thereof, the guide assembly comprising: an edge guide means for contacting a vertical edge of the rack teeth, said edge guide means comprising a longitudinally elongate edge guide plate having a contact surface configured to contact the vertical edge of the rack teeth and a non-contact surface, said edge guide plate extending in a generally parallel relationship to a respective leg chord, and an elongate means for absorbing compressible loads acting on the rack teeth, said means for absorbing compressible loads comprising a load-absorbing member made of compressible resilient elastic material configured to absorb compressible loads; and a face guide means secured transversely to and in contact with, an inner surface of the edge guide means for reducing the build-up of horizontal moment acting on the leg.