Rotating installation for an idler block
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsZachary T. Donlan, Benjamin I. Jones, Mircea Dumitru
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Abstract
A replacement kit includes a first coupler that includes a first inner axial end, a first outer axial end, and a first coupler attachment portion including a first forked oblong structure that defines a first minor axis with a first minor axis length, and a first major axis with a first major axis length that is greater than the first minor axis length, and including a first prong, a second prong disposed axially away from the first prong, and defining a first predetermined axial distance, and a first cam surface disposed between the first prong and the second prong.
Claims9
A rotating member attachment assembly comprising:
- a shaft including a cylindrical configuration defining a cylindrical axis, a circumferential direction, and a radial direction, the shaft further defining a first axial end and a second axial end along the cylindrical axis;
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- a first coupler defining a first hole that defines a first hole axis and that is configured to receive the shaft, the first coupler further including a first inner axial end, and a first outer axial end;
- wherein the first coupler further includes a first coupler attachment portion disposed adjacent to the first inner axial end including a first forked oblong structure that defines a first minor axis with a first minor axis length, and a first major axis with a first major axis length that is greater than the first minor axis length, the first forked oblong structure including a first prong disposed proximate to the first inner axial end of the first coupler and a second prong disposed axially away from the first prong a first predetermined axial distance toward the first outer axial end of the first coupler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.