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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Caterpillar Global Mining Llc., South Milwaukee, WI (US);
Jonathan Vitas, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jeanne Yaunke, Delavan, WI (US);
Caterpillar Global Mining LLC, Oak Creek, WI (US);
Abstract
A slide shoe installs on an undercarriage frame assembly of an excavating machine to prevent contact by the lugs of track links when the track buckles. The slide shoe is connected at a top surface to a mounting bar extending between side plates of the frame assembly. The slide shoe may include a front bottom beveled surface extending forward from a bottom surface to a front surface and a rear bottom beveled surface extending rearward from the bottom surface, with the beveled surfaces oriented at upward angles with respect to a line parallel to the bottom surface. A rear upper beveled surface extends rearward from the top surface and is oriented at a downward angle with respect to a line parallel to the top surface and intersects the rear bottom beveled surface at a rear tip of the slide shoe.