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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2023
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Kevin Hanks, Piedmont, SD (US);
Jim D. Angell, Naperville, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
Mobile equipment, such as landfill compactors, utilize wheels with wire guards to prevent wire, cable, or the like from entangling the mobile equipment. Traditional wire guards either do not satisfy life expectations or do not provide an edge that promotes chopping or cutting of refuse and/or traction. The disclosed wire guard comprises one or more chocky bars, extending between pairs of adjacent cleats on the peripheral edge of a circumferential surface of a wheel rim. This wire guard may improve the life of the wire guard system to match the life of the cleats, while also providing a serrated edge that improves chopping and cutting of refuse and provides traction on the varied and unpredictable terrain of a landfill.