Patent ID: 7635223

Claim:
A linear guide device, comprising a guide rail extending in a guidance direction; a guide carriage guided such that it is displaceable in said guided direction on said guide rail and having at least two rolling body circuits, each of said at least two rolling body circuits including a circulatory channel and a plurality of rolling elements which circulate in said circulatory channel, said circulatory channel including a running channel which is bounded by a rolling element track formed in said guide rail and by a load-bearing wall section of said guide carriage, said circulatory channel also including a return channel and two turnaround channels which connect said running channel with said return channel and in which said rolling elements are essentially load-free, said guide carriage including a base unit and at least two circulatory assemblies in each of which at least one of said at least two rolling body circuits is included, said two circulatory assemblies being configured to be separate and being interconnected only via said base unit, said guide carriage being provided with at least four recesses each having an end face which extends essentially orthogonally to said guidance direction and against which one of said circulatory assemblies bears in said guidance direction, said end faces of two of said recesses located on one side of said guide rail pointing in opposite directions.