Patent ID: 7207262

Claim:
A linear drive comprising a drive housing, in which drive means are located which are able to be driven to perform a linear movement and which are drivingly coupled with a linearly guided carriage or slide adapted to run externally on the drive housing, and stroke limiting means effective between the drive housing and the carriage, the limiting means including a first abutment arranged on the carriage and a first counter abutment, arranged on the housing, extending into the path of movement of the first abutment and overlapped by the carriage, wherein the carnage is so arranged that said carriage covers over an open longitudinal side of a channel-like housing recess, delimited by two opposite side walls, in the drive housing for a greater or smaller length dependent on the position, the first abutment being located within the housing recess and at least one of the side walls having at least one wall opening, into which the first counter abutment for cooperating with the first abutment may be so inserted from the outside that said first counter abutment extends laterally into the housing recess.