US 6,837,649 B2 · Compactor tooth

Abstract

A compactor tooth has a replaceable wear tip mounted to a mounting block carried on the cylindrical exterior surface of a landfill-compactor wheel of a compactor machine. The mounting block has an external surface formed to engage a complementary internal cavity of the wear tip and includes a pair of circumferentially spaced sides oriented not more than 5 degrees from perpendicular to the cylindrical exterior surface of the wheel. The replaceable tip has a body with an exterior ground-engaging surface, a mounting end and a mounting-base receiving cavity opening through the mounting end. The cavity is configured to receive the mounting block thereinto and has a pair of circumferentially spaced side surfaces configured to be in close abutting relationship to a respective one of the circumferentially spaced sides of said mounting block.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A retainer for detachably retaining a tip onto a mounting block on a compactor wheel, comprising:

a cylindrical barrel member of a predetermined diameter, said barrel member being disposed about a central axis and having opposite ends with a first end having a threaded bore therein and a second end having a pair of spaced side surfaces, said spaced side surfaces disposed in abutting relationship to the tip;
and
a separate fastening member having a cylindrical head portion and a threaded stud portion, said stud portion being adapted for threaded engagement with said threaded bore of said barrel member for detachably mounting said fastener member to said barrel member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Compactor tooth

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Abstract

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