Wear member for excavating equipment
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1. A wear member for use in excavating comprising:
- a body having a front end, a rear end, a top wall, a bottom wall, side walls interconnecting the top and bottom walls, and a rearwardly opening socket for receiving a nose which is fixed to excavating equipment, wherein the top and bottom walls converge toward front end, and the socket is defined by interior surfaces of the upper, lower and side walls; and
at least one ear extending from one of the side walls rearward of the body, the ear having a tapered slot with an inlet end for receiving a lock by which the wear member is retained to the nose, wherein the slot tapers away from the inlet end.
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Abstract
A wear assembly provided with a tapered opening and a complementary tapered lock wherein the lock can be pried into and from the opening to thereby eliminate the need for hammering. The lock is formed with a body and a latch that is movable between a hold position where the latch is engageable with a stop in the opening to releaseably retain the lock in the opening and a release position where the latch disengages the stop.
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1. A wear member for use in excavating comprising:
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a body having a front end, a rear end, a top wall, a bottom wall, side walls interconnecting the top and bottom walls, and a rearwardly opening socket for receiving a nose which is fixed to excavating equipment, wherein the top and bottom walls converge toward front end, and the socket is defined by interior surfaces of the upper, lower and side walls; and at least one ear extending from one of the side walls rearward of the body, the ear having a tapered slot with an inlet end for receiving a lock by which the wear member is retained to the nose, wherein the slot tapers away from the inlet end. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A wear member for use in excavating comprising:
- a wear surface;
a support cavity for recieving a support structure secured to excavating equipment; and an opening by an interior wall having a front wall surface and a rear wall surface, the opening having an inlet end for receving a lock to retain the wear member to the support structure and a stop formed along the front wall surface for releasbly retaining the lock in the opening and the opening norrowing along at least part of the length of the the opening as the opening extends away from the inlet end and the stop. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
- a wear surface;
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28. A wear member for use in excavating comprising:
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a wear surface; a support cavity adapted to receive a support structure secured to excavating equipment, the support cavity having a rearwardly extending longitudinal axis; and an opening for receiving a lock to hold the wear member to the support structure, the opening having an open inlet end by which the lock is received, a forward end, a rearward end, a length generally in the direction the lock is inserted into the opening, a thickness generally in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the support cavity, and a width generally perpendicular to the length and the thickness, wherein the opening tapers in both the width and the thickness as the opening extends away from the inlet end. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A wear member for use in excavating comprising:
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a wear surface; a rearwardly opening socket for receiving a nose fixed to excavating equipment, the socket having interior upper, lower and side surfaces, and a rearwardly extending longitudinal axis; and an opening for receiving a lock, the opening being laterally offset from the longitudinal axis and having an inlet end for receiving a lock in a direction generally transverse to the longitudinal axis to hold the wear member to the nose, the opening tapering in a direction away from the inlet end. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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