Patent ID: 7739927

Claim:
An adjusting device for positioning a load, comprising: a spindle-type lifting gear having a spindle, a spindle nut arranged on the spindle, and a gear unit housing having first and second bearing bushes at opposite side surfaces; said spindle or the spindle nut and a driveshaft for driving the spindle or the spindle nut being rotatably supported in the gear unit housing; first and second bearing brackets, each with a stand and an arm which projects therefrom and which has, in an end portion adjoining its free end, a bearing pin that engages in a respective bearing bush of the gear unit housing for the swivelable bearing support of the gear unit housing of the spindle-type lifting gear; a driving motor with a motor shaft; a motor flange unit with a flange housing that is rigidly connected to the driving motor on one side and to the gear unit housing on the other side; and a coupling arranged in the flange housing for transmitting torque from the motor shaft to the driveshaft of the spindle-type lifting gear; said flange housing being secured to one of the side surfaces of the gear unit housing at which the bearing bushes of the gear unit housing are arranged; said driveshaft of the spindle-type lifting gear extending parallel to the swiveling axis around which the spindle-type lifting gear is swivelable; and said flange housing having, on the side facing the swiveling axis, a recess into which part of the end portion of the arm of the bearing bracket adjacent to the flange housing projects.