Patent ID: 8235018

Claim:
Cam-following or eccentric-following tappet for an internal combustion engine, comprising an essentially cylindrical housing having a driven side that is adapted to contact of a tappet-following part formed by a bottom side of a bridge piece that extends across an inner casing of the housing, an anti-rotation locking device in a form at least similar to a cylinder projects past an outer casing of the housing and includes a first cylinder section that is located in a window of the housing, tab projections project into the window and the anti-rotation locking device, standing “loose” relative to and in the window, is snapped behind the projections, and a second cylinder section of the anti-rotation locking device extends behind the inner casing of the housing and wherein the bridge piece, extending on an axial section of the anti-rotation locking device, has in a peripheral section thereof a recess in its outer surface, with the second cylinder section of the anti-rotation locking device being supported against the recess.