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US 2015/0330049 A1Published application
Compactor wheel having multi-zone tip configuration
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsVinayak Ramanath UGRU, Thomas Marshall CONGDON, JR., Chad Edward SCHIELE, Mark Alan WELCH
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Abstract
A wheel is disclosed for use with a compactor machine. The wheel may have a rim with a first edge zone, a second edge zone, and a center zone located between the first and second edge zones. The wheel may also have a first plurality of plus tips protruding radially outward from the rim at the first edge zone, and a second plurality of paddle tips protruding radially outward from the center zone.
Claims25
A compactor wheel, comprising:
- a rim having a first edge zone, a second edge zone, and a center zone located between the first and second edge zones;
- a first plurality of plus tips protruding radially outward from the rim at the first edge zone;
- and
- a second plurality of paddle tips protruding radially outward from the center zone.
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A compactor wheel, comprising:
- a rim;
- a first plurality of tips protruding radially outward from the rim and configured to primarily provide circumferential traction to the rim;
- and
- a second plurality of tips protruding radially outward from the rim and configured to primarily provide lateral traction to the rim,
- wherein a number of the first plurality of tips is greater than a number of the second plurality of tips.
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A method of making a compactor wheel, comprising:
- joining a first plurality of paddle tips to a center zone of a rim;
- joining a second plurality of plus tips to a first edge of the rim;
- and
- joining a third plurality of plus tips to a second edge of the rim,
- wherein a number of the first plurality of paddle tips is more than a combined number of the second and third pluralities of plus tips.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.