Patent ID: 8899119

Claim:
A device for pressing a rack onto a pinion engaged with the rack comprising a pressure piece which can be loaded in a direction of the rack and is displaceably guided in a housing, and comprising an automatic adjusting device for compensating play that occurs in the steering system, wherein the adjusting device comprises two disks, which bear against one another at contact surfaces, wherein the contact surfaces have at least two slanting surface segments, and wherein the two disks are rotatable relative to one another by way of a torsion spring further comprising an adjusting screw, wherein a spring washer is disposed between the adjusting screw and the adjusting device, and the adjusting device has a shoulder and the adjusting screw has a recess, or the adjusting device has the recess and the adjusting screw has the shoulder, wherein the shoulder can move resiliently into the spring washer, and wherein the size of the shoulder defines the play of the pressure piece.