Caterpillar Inc.

Kenneth Nebergall

Stephen C Garnett

Britta A Jost

Eric James Johannsen

Joseph F Carter

Christopher R Beasely

Jeffrey M Lakdawala

A debris shunting awning assembly, for an undercarriage in a ground engaging track system for a track-type machine includes an awning having a plurality of segmental plates with an assembly configuration at which the plates are coupled with the inboard side of a track roller frame and span a clearance between the track roller frame and a main frame of the track-type machine. The awning assembly is configured to direct debris through a debris path extending through a portion of a track system for the track-type machine.

Undercarriage system for track-type machine and debris shunting awning assembly

A ground engaging track for a track-type machine includes a set of identical standard track shoes each having a relatively narrow shoe footprint, and a sweeping track shoe having a relatively wide shoe footprint. The sweeping track shoe is connectable via track links with the standard track shoes in an endless chain configuration such that the sweeping track shoe juts outwardly of the standard track shoes, for sweeping debris from a clearance between the track and a main frame of the track-type machine. The sweeping track shoe includes bolting apertures formed therein and communicating between an upper shoe surface and a ground contacting shoe surface, the bolting apertures being arranged in a directional link bolting pattern. The directional link bolting pattern defines a minor shoe axis and a major shoe axis, and the sweeping shoe body may be configured such that an inboard sweeping edge is spaced further than an outboard edge from the minor shoe axis.

Sweeping track shoe for undercarriage system in a track-type machine

Track-type machine having undercarriage system with sweeping track shoe

Sweeping track shoe for a track-type machine

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Canton, IL, United States of America

Kenneth Nebergall