Tooless concave fastener
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsSheila E. Moroney, Daniel M. Heim, Manish Singh, Jeffrey R. Walter
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AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsSheila E. Moroney, Daniel M. Heim, Manish Singh, Jeffrey R. Walter
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A latch assembly includes a carriage bolt including a threaded shaft having an enlarged head at one end with a non-circular shoulder adjacent the enlarged head. Each latch assembly further includes a thrust washer received about the carriage bolt, a nut threadedly received on the threaded shaft, and a cam lever pivotally attached to the nut. The cam lever pivots about a pivot axis perpendicular to a length of the threaded shaft, the cam lever including a cam surface configured to engage the thrust washer, the cam lever being pivotable from an unlatched position to a latched position such that engagement of the cam surface with the thrust washer during pivotal motion of the cam lever biases the thrust washer toward the enlarged head to thereby latch a mounting flange of a concave grate to a support flange of a support frame.
An agricultural harvester machine, comprising:
A method of mounting a concave grate on a support frame of a thresher housing of an agricultural harvester machine, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.