Caterpillar Tractor Co.

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Kenneth E Vaughn

Roger L Boggs

James Richard Shuler

Danny J Becker

Richard K Gerlach

A telephone loop monitoring and isolation device which can be connected to a wireless telephone subscriber unit providing an interface between an analog or digital central station network and the internal telephone wiring of a subscribers premises. The device is also operable with a cable telephone subscriber unit. The device provides passive real time loop status information as well as loop isolation if the voltage across the loop falls below a predetermined level. When normal loop impedance conditions are restored, the subscriber loop is automatically reconnected to the subscriber telephone unit. The device is effective for examining open circuit and abnormal impedance conditions and provides loop status information to the telephone subscriber. The system of the invention also has an alarm enhancement in that it will provide an alarm status indication to a monitoring center, such as a police department or the like, while still maintaining communication capabilities, even during an existing active telephone communication.

Telephone loop monitoring and isolation system

A track-type vehicle comprises a plurality of articulated track shoes each comprising a pair of downwardly converging sidewalls terminating at a grouser extending the full width thereof. The sidewalls define a V-shaped trough-like configuration and a track link is releasably attached thereto. A pair of parallel lugs are formed on the upper ends of the sidewalls.

Low ground pressure track shoe

A track-type vehicle comprises a plurality of articulated track shoes each comprising a pair of downwardly converging sidewalls terminating at the grouser extending the full width thereof. The sidewalls define a V-shaped trough-like configuration and a track link is releasably attached thereto. A pair of parallel lugs are formed on the upper ends of the sidewalls.

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Creve Coeur, IL, United States of America

Kenneth E Vaughn