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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2023
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Craig T. Hedstrom, Mounds View, MN (US);
Nicholas B. Johnson, Dayton, MN (US);
Ryan Hutar, Plymouth, MN (US);
Eric S. Engelmann, Delano, MN (US);
Mario Persano, Poggio Renatico, IT;
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Abstract
A milling machine can include a frame, a milling assembly including a cutting rotor and a rotor housing coupled to the frame, the cutting rotor including a rotor shell positioned around a spindle, and a first axial alignment feature on one of the rotor shell or the spindle, the first axial alignment feature including a physical feature on a surface of the rotor shell or the spindle, the physical feature being positioned and configured to contact an opposing flat surface of the opposing rotor shell or spindle so as to guide the rotor shell and the spindle into a co-axial alignment as the rotor shell is loaded axially onto the spindle.