Patent ID: 7131528

Claim:
A chain guide for a continuous running transport chain on a machine for continuous processing of workpieces, the transport chain having track rollers ( 8 ) and guide rollers ( 11 ) located at chain links ( 5 ) and with at least one guide rail ( 1 ) located at the machine frame along at least one section of the rotation path of the transport chain, where said guide rail exhibits two tracks ( 9 ) for the track rollers ( 8 ) of the chain links ( 5 ) with said tracks being at a distance from one another and in between a groove profile ( 4 ) into which reach the guide rollers ( 11 ) of the chain links ( 5 ), which are supported by axle bolts ( 10 ) that protrude through the guide rollers ( 11 ), characterized in that magnets ( 15 ) are located at the bottom of the groove profile ( 4 ) of the guide rail ( 1 ) with a magnetic circuit closing across the free ends ( 13 ) of the axle bolts ( 10 ) at the chain links ( 5 ) across an air gap ( 17 ).