Patent ID: 8167492

Claim:
A lubricating device for a linear rolling bearing, which has a guide rail and a guide carriage that is displaceable longitudinally on the guide rail and supported on the guide rail via rolling bodies which are guided along the guide rail in longitudinal grooves of the guide rail, the lubricating device fastened to the guide carriage for lubricating the longitudinal grooves and the rolling bodies, the lubricating device comprising: a housing having lubricant supply ducts that supply a lubricant to the longitudinal grooves and have covering regions and, on an end face of the housing, in a region of the longitudinal grooves, outlet passages for transfer of the lubricant to the longitudinal grooves; and at least one absorbent repository element, wherein the lubricant supply ducts are covered laterally in the covering regions by the at least one absorbent repository element, which is designed and arranged to absorb the lubricant in the covering regions and conduct the lubricant, parallel to the lubricant supply ducts, to the longitudinal grooves.