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US 12,723,380 B2Granted
Protection systems
Assignee2Mt Mining Products Pty Ltd
InventorMahinda Palitha Senanayake
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Abstract
A protection system includes a mount for attachment to a wear panel of equipment. The mount includes a first portion which engages the wear panel to be protected and a second portion extending from the first portion which engages an adjacent face to be protected. The second portion has a passage which allows sliding movement of a bolt along the passage. A wear part is releasably mounted to the mount and has a first portion that slidingly engages the first portion of the mount and a second portion that engages the second portion of the mount. The second portion of the wear part has a passage arranged to align with the passage through the second portion of the mount when the wear part and the mount are engaged. A bolt extends through the aligned passages to secure the wear part to the mount via a locking member.
Claims18
A protection system including:
- a mount adapted to be fixed to a wear panel of equipment or machinery, said mount including a first portion having a face adapted to rest against or engage a first face of the wear panel to be protected, said first portion including fixed engagement means adapted to slidingly engage with complementary fixed engagement means of a wear part, and a second portion of said mount extending from said first portion at or near one end thereof and adapted to engage an adjacent second face orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the first face of the wear panel, said second portion having one or more passages therethrough configured to allow entry of a respective head of one or more bolts in one direction and lateral sliding movement of the one or more bolts along the one or more passages in a direction orthogonal to said one direction to a predetermined position along said one or more passages, such that the one or more bolts extend outwardly from the second portion of the mount;
- said wear part adapted to be releasably mounted to said mount, said wear part having a first wear portion including first fixed engagement means adapted to slidingly engage the fixed engagement means of said first portion of said mount and secure said wear part to said mount against lift-off forces, and a second wear portion of said wear part positioned orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to said first wear portion and adapted to engage said second portion of said mount to secure the wear part to the mount against slide-off forces, said second portion of said wear part having one or more passages or recesses therein and arranged to at least partially align with respective ones of said one or more passages through said second portion of said mount when said wear part and said mount are in an engaged position;
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- wherein the one or more bolts are adapted to extend through said one or more passages in the second portion of said mount and said one or more passages in said second portion of said wear part to secure said wear part when in the engaged position to said mount against slide-off forces orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to lift-off forces.
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A mount for a protection system, said mount including:
- a first portion having a face adapted to rest against or engage a first face of a wear panel to be protected and a second portion extending from said first portion and adapted to engage an adjacent face of the wear panel orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the first face, said second portion having an elongated passage therethrough, the elongated passage having a narrow portion and a larger portion contiguous with said narrow portion and configured to allow entry of a respective head of one or more bolts therethrough in one direction and subsequent sliding movement of each of the one or more bolts therealong in an orthogonal direction and to a selected predetermined position along the narrow portion of said elongated passage;
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- wherein the respective head of each one or more bolts is insertable into elongated passage and slides laterally along the elongated passage in the orthogonal direction to the respective selected predetermined position, the narrow portion being adapted to engage the head of the one or more bolts to retain the one or more bolts in the selected predetermined position.
A wear part for a protection system, the wear part including:
- a first wear portion and a second wear portion extending from said first wear portion, said first wear portion being adapted to protect a first wear panel of equipment or machinery and said second wear portion being adapted to protect a second wear panel of the equipment or machinery adjacent and orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the first wear panel, the first wear portion having a first mounting face adapted to engage a first face of a mount secured to the first wear panel to be protected, and said second wear portion including a second mounting face orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the first mounting face of said first wear portion and adapted to engage a second face of said mount orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to said first face of said mount so as to rest against the second wear panel of the equipment to protect the second wear panel;
- said first wear portion having two spaced apart side portions defining said first mounting face therebetween, wherein one or more fixed protuberances extend inwardly from each of said side portions towards the opposite side portion and are spaced apart and extend over a portion of said first mounting face, said one or more fixed protuberances being adapted to engage complementary fixed engagement means of the mount to which the wear part is to be fixed and configured, such that the wear part can slide onto the mount from one end to locate the wear part on the mount with the one or more fixed protuberances of the first wear portion engaging the complementary fixed engagement means of the mount to secure the wear part against lift-off forces;
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- said second wear portion having one or more passages extending therethrough, the one or more passages being adapted to receive respective bolts for securing the wear part to the mount against slide-off forces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.