High strength earth working penetration tooth

• US 3,959,901 A
• Filed: 06/30/1975
• Issued: 06/01/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Caterpillar Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Caterpillar Americas Company (Caterpillar Incorporated)
• Inventors: Klett, Gene Ralph
• Primary Examiner(s): Eickholt, E. H.
• Application Number:
  US05/591,593
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• Field of Search: 37/141 R, 37/141 T, 37/142 R, 37/142 A, 172/699, 172/713, 172/762
• US Class Current: 37/452
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2833 Retaining means, e.g. pins
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2841 resilient

Abstract

The invention is concerned with a unitary high strength earth working tooth useful with excavator buckets, scrapers, rippers and the like. The tooth is integrally formed and includes a proximal end for attachment to an earth working machine and a distal end for penetrating soil. The proximal end includes a generally isosceles trapezoidal upper portion, a generally isosceles trapezoidal lower portion, and a pair of generally isosceles trapezoidal sides, each side extending from an edge of said upper portion to an edge to said lower portion, a closure interconnecting the shorter bases of said upper portion, said lower portion and said two sides, and a pair of aligned holes, one through each of said sides generally on the bisecting axis thereof. The distal end includes a generally flat isosceles trapezoidal member extending at an obtuse angle from said lower portion with the larger base of said member coextensive with the shorter base of said lower portion, said member extending generally parallel to a plane defined by the bisecting axes of said sides. The tooth, when viewed from the side, includes a generally right triangularly shaped ridge upraised perpendicularly from the bisecting axis of said trapezoidal member and terminating at an acute angle short of the shorter base thereof, which shorter base comprises a soil penetrating portion of said distal end, the hypotenuse of said ridge extending from said acute angle towards and terminating at a point adjacent said closure, said ridge supportedly extending from said closure.

Claims

1. A unitary high strength earth working tooth, comprising, integrally formed, a proximal end for attachment to an earth working machine and a distal end for penetrating soil;

said proximal end including a generally isosceles trapezoidal lower portion, and a pair of generally isosceles trapezoidal sides, each side extending from an edge of said upper portion to an edge of said lower portion, a closure interconnecting the shorter bases of said upper portion, said lower portion and said two sides, and a pair of aligned holes, one through each of said sides generally on the bisecting axis thereof;

said distal end including a generally flat isosceles trapezoidal member extending at an obtuse angle from said lower portion with the longer base of said member coextensive with the shorter base of said lower portion, said member extending generally parallel to a plane defined by the bisecting axes of said sides;

said tooth including a generally right triangularly shaped ridge upraised perpendicularly from the bisecting axis of said trapezoidal member and terminating at an acute angle short of the shorter base thereof, which shorter base comprises a soil penetrating portion of said distal end, the hypotenuse of said ridge extending from said acute angle towards and terminating at a point adjacent said closure, said ridge supportedly extending from said closure.

2. A tooth as in claim 1, including a ramp extending from said acute angle to the shorter base of said trapezoidal member, said ramp being coplanar with said hypotenuse.

3. A tooth as in claim 2, wherein an extension of the outer surface of said upper portion and an extension of the outer surface of said lower portion meet in a line which is intermediate said shorter base of said trapezoidal member and said termination point of said hypotenuse.

4. A tooth as in claim 3, wherein said line is nearer to said shorter base of said trapezoidal than to said termination point of said hypotenuse.

5. A tooth as in claim 4, wherein said ridge is generally rectangular in cross section and is no more than about two thirds in width of the width of the shorter base of said trapezoidal member.

6. A tooth as in claim 5, wherein said ridge extends supportedly from said closure via a curved reinforcing brace having a width at least about as wide as the width of the top of said trapezoidal member.