Invention Application
- Patent Title: Retainer System for Ground-Engaging Tool
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Application No.: US15179251Application Date: 2016-06-10
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Publication No.: US20170356166A1Publication Date: 2017-12-14
- Inventor: Doug Serrurier , Eric Sinn , Jason Jura , Mihai Balan , Scott A. Schick
- Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IL Peoria
- Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
- Current Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Peoria
- Main IPC: E02F9/28
- IPC: E02F9/28

Abstract:
A ground-engaging tool system includes an adapter attachable to a work implement and a ground-engaging tip that is releasably connectable to the adapter. To releasably mate the adapter and the tip, the adapter may include a projecting lug post that locks and unlocks with a rotatable, latch-like retainer in the tip. The lug post may be a frustum or frustoconical structure having a truncated flat and an exterior side surface that intersect at a peripheral edge. The shape of the truncated flat, peripheral edge, and exterior side surface may further be delineated by a first radius and a second radius of different dimensions, or by radii having first and second centers that are not coincident in location on the truncated flat.
Public/Granted literature
- US10053839B2 Retainer system for ground-engaging tool Public/Granted day:2018-08-21
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