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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
John L Bender, East Peoria, IL (US);
Richard E Livesay, Peoria, IL (US);
Chris J Stickling, Dunlap, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
Replaceable wear members used in the past have usually includes shortcomings which have caused the product to be less than desirable. The present system for attaching a wear member to a parent member provides many advantages over the past configurations. For example, the unique configuration of the mounting base and wear member include cooperating slide and place engagement elements for mounting purposes. Also, a unique low profile retainer is used to retain the wear member, which allows for more use of the wear member before replacement is required, thus resulting is less throw-away material.