Transfer station wheels
AssigneeCaron Compactor Company
InventorsJames O. Caron, Scott F. P. Caron
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Abstract
A wheel for a powered vehicle operating along a hard brittle surface is equipped with cleats 21 having non-metallic wear tips 31 mounted upon a metallic base 36 welded to the wheel circumference 10. The material forming the wear tips 31 has density and hardness insufficient to chip or erode the brittle work surface but of sufficient toughness for demolition of solid wastes. An elongate bracket in a medial portion 26 of the wear tip and base have complimentary portions for attachment of tip to base in a twist resisting connection. An adhesive bond unites the tip and base in one embodiment, FIGS. 4-7, and mechanical couplings unite the parts in others, FIGS. 7-13. Certain embodiments, FIGS. 8-13, have provisions for readily releasable locking of the parts for field replacement of worn cleats.
Claims11
An improved transfer station wheel for mounting on a powered vehicle which operates along a hard brittle surface such as concrete to provide reduction of the waste volume through demolition of solid waste at transfer station sites, the combination comprising:
- a rigid cylindrical body supported for rotation from such vehicle's chassis and having cleat assemblies carried by the body,
- the cleat assemblies being elongate and arranged end to end in a segmented array disposed in a chevron configuration along said cylindrical body,
- each cleat assembly having a hollow metallic base portion welded to said cylindrical body and a hard, durable, long wearing non-metallic wear tip fixedly secured to said base portion, said wear tip being formed from a material having a hardness and density insufficient to chip or erode the concrete floor surfaces of such transfer station and sufficiently hard for demolition of solid wastes,
- said non-metallic wear tip protruding generally radially outwardly from said base portion, a compaction face substantially narrower than said base portion on the outer distal surface of the non-metallic wear tip, each cleat assembly including sloping upwardly converging outer side walls extending radially outwardly from the cylindrical body sufficiently in a given direction to join with said compaction face,
- transverse end walls extending between the ends of said side walls,
- and means disposed in a medial portion of said base portion extending between said end walls serving to engage a complimentary shaped portion of said wear tip for securing said wear tip to said base portion and serving to resist twisting forces imparted to said wear tip.
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