Patent ID: 7241048

Claim:
A linear guide device, comprising a guide rail extending in a guiding direction; a guide carriage guided on said guide rail by means of at least one roll body revolving means in said guiding direction, said at least one roll body revolving means including a revolving passage and a plurality of roll bodies which revolve in said revolving passage, said revolving passage including a running passage which is limited by a roll body running path formed on said guide rail and by a load-receiving wall portion of said guide carriage, a return passage, and two deviating passages which connect said running passage with said return passage and in which the roll bodies are substantially load free, said guide carriage having a base unit and at least one revolving component group, said revolving component group having at least one lower wall portion of a wall which limits said return passage and at least one lower wall portion of a wall which limits said deviating passages, said revolving component group also having a load-receiving wall portion of said running passage; and holding means which hold roll bodies arranged in a region of said running passage also on said guide carriage at a state of said guide carriage spaced from said guide rail, wherein only an upper wall portion of the wall portions limiting at least one of the deviating passages is formed in an end cap unit which is arranged in a longitudinal direction before or after said base unit of said guide carriage, wherein said revolving component group has at least one projecting pin with a deformable free end on which said end cap unit is fittable, wherein said end cap unit has at least one arresting element arrestable with an associated arresting counter element provided in an element selected from the group consisting of said base unit and said revolving component group.