Cnh Industrial America LLC

Richard Lee Niespodzany

Vikram Nair

Lonnie Lee McGee, Jr

Lonnie L Mcgee, Jr

Paul Wilhelm Rau

Work vehicles, such as construction vehicles, include an attachment tool to transport material. The attachment tool is coupled to a lift arm assembly of the construction vehicle via a coupling assembly. The coupling assembly is designed to be coupled to any one of a variety of attachment tools. However, coupling assemblies commonly utilize coupling pins to couple the attachment tool to the lift arm assembly. The coupling pins are onerous to insert/remove and prone to rusting. Furthermore, the coupling assemblies often have too much lateral tolerance. As such, the attachment tools are prone to lateral movement relative to the lift arm during operation. Therefore, an attachment tool coupling assembly for a construction vehicle is needed to easily couple and release the attachment tool from the lift arm assembly and prevent lateral movement of the attachment tool relative to the lift arm assembly.

Attachment tool coupling assembly for a construction vehicle

A wear pad system includes a wear pad having a contact surface that contacts a corresponding contact surface of a first object. The wear pad system further includes an adjustment cap having a threaded outer surface and a boss member, having a threaded inner surface, such that the boss member is positioned on a second object and configured to guide the wear pad along a path toward the corresponding contact surface of the first object. Furthermore, the second object moves relative to the first object, the threaded outer surface of the adjustment cap engages the threaded inner surface of the boss member, and the adjustment cap is urges the contact surface of the wear pad into contact with the corresponding contact surface of the first object in response to rotation of the adjustment cap relative to the boss member.

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Richard Lee Niespodzany