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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
May. 26, 2023
Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment Llc, Denison, TX (US);
Vaitheeswaran Ponnuchamy, Chennai, IN;
Daniel Raymond Hettinger, Monticello, IL (US);
Christopher Lynn Wylin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC, Denison, TX (US);
Abstract
A dump body configured to be retrofitted with a front wall exhaust heating system, the dump body having a first horizontally extending heating conduit on the front face of a front wall; one or more longitudinal body support members extending along a bottom face of a bottom floor and across a transition from the bottom floor to a front wall. Each of the one or more longitudinal body support members having an opening extending through the longitudinal body support member to provide for the fitting of horizontal channel sections for a second horizontally extending heating conduit of a front wall exhaust heating system. The dump body also including a first vertically extending heating conduit having a first channel member at a junction of an interior face of the front wall and an interior face of a first one of the pair of opposing side walls; and a second vertically extending heating conduit having a second channel member at a junction of an interior face of the front wall an interior face of a second one of the pair of opposing side walls. The second vertically extending heating conduit being in fluid communication with the first horizontally extending heating conduit via an opening in the front wall.