Patent ID: 8342751

Claim:
A guide rail for a linear bearing, comprising: a guide rail body haying a first surface with a longitudinal groove formed in the first surface, the longitudinal groove having a base surface; and a plastically deformed cover strip, which substantially fills the longitudinal groove and bears flush against a plane of the first surface of the guide rail body, wherein a spacing between opposite groove wails of the longitudinal groove is smaller than a transverse width of the cover strip, which is fitted transversely into the longitudinal groove, wherein the groove walls each have an undercut in order to secure the cover strip on the guide rail, wherein the cover strip has retaining strips on both longitudinal sides of the cover strip, which engage in the undercuts of the groove wall, and wherein the cover strip is initially plastically curved about an axis which is parallel to the guide rail such that the transverse width of the cover strip with respect to the longitudinal groove is smaller than the spacing between the groove walls and a bottom surface of the cover strip, which is concave, faces the longitudinal groove, and subsequently the cover strip is plastically deformed such that the cover strip continuously the base surface of the longitudinal groove over a width of the cover strip and the retaining strips are displaced into the undercuts.