Caterpillar Tractor Co.

Donald A Piepho

Donald E Clemens

Czeslaw J May

Stephen W Reiss

Frederick L Knop, Jr

A valve includes a pair of valving spools reciprocally disposed within a bore, with one valving spool movable to cut off application of fluid pressure from a pump to a steering yoke piston, and the other valving spool being movable to a position to relieve fluid pressure provided by the pump.

Bypass valve

A hinge pin construction including a pin adapted to journal an arm or the like, an annular wedge member associated with one end of the pin, a collet receivable on the wedge member, a bolt extending through the collet to be threadably received in a bore in a pin, the bolt also being threadably received in the collet. The threads in the collet have a lesser pitch than the threads in the bore so as to provide a differential action to properly seat the collet on the wedge member with a minimum of friction.

Hinge pin construction

A track-type vehicle, such as a crawler tractor, comprises a pair of endless tracks mounted on either side thereof. Each of the tracks is entrained over a drive sprocket at its rearward end and over an idler at its forward end. The idler comprises a hub having a plurality of arcuate rim segments releasably attached on an annular flange thereof to define annular, track-engaging bearing surfaces. Each of the segments may be attached to the idler at a circumferentially disposed tongue and groove arrangement and an elastomeric cushioning and noise damping means may be disposed between each segment and the flange. One or more of the segments may be replaced in situ by merely moving the vehicle to expose the same.

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Aurora, IL, United States of America

Donald A Piepho