Coupling system for coupling a wear element to an adapter for excavators and similar machinery and components thereof

• US 8,800,178 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2010
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Metalogenia, S.A.
• Original Assignee: Metalogenia, S.A.
• Inventors: Rol Corredor, Javier, Thomson, Andrew James, Perez Soria, Francisco, Triginer Boixeda, Jorge, Jimenez Garcia, Javier, Tuto, Joan, Alonso Frigola, Ester
• Primary Examiner(s): PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC
• Application Number:
  US13/148,184
• Publication Number:
  US 20120017474A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,649 Days
• Field of Search: 374/66, 37452-460, 172/701.1, 172/701.3, 403/374.1, 403/374.3, 403/374.4, 403/379.3, 403/379.4
• US Class Current: 37/456
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2825 using adapters
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2841 resilient
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2858 characterised by shape

Abstract

A coupling system for coupling a wear element to an adapter for excavators and similar machinery and the components thereof. The coupling system is formed by a wear element, preferably a tooth though possibly a bucket protection element, a tooth bar or adaptor element and a securing system for securing the two elements, formed mainly by a pin. In addition, the securing system can include a retaining element with resilient properties, associated with the pin.

Claims

1. A coupling system for coupling a male element to a female element of the type used in excavators, said male element and female element detachably coupled to one another with a securing system fixing the coupling position between said male element and female element, wherein:

the female element comprises a cavity for coupling with the male element, said cavity having a first projection extending towards an inside of the cavity, said first projection having a convex surface;

the male element comprises a nose for coupling with the female element, said nose having at least one concave recess in at least one surface of the nose and facing the first projection of the female element, a space remaining between the convex surface of the first projection of the female element and the concave recess of the male element; and

the securing system comprises at least one body or pin with a concave top surface and a convex bottom surface complementary to the concave recess of the male element, the body or pin configured to be housed in the space between the male element and the female element when the body or pin is inserted in a coupling direction, a first locking area being created between the convex surface of the female element and the concave top surface of the pin or body of the securing system.

2. The coupling system according to claim 1, wherein the female element has a second projection extending towards the inside of the cavity and provided with a second convex surface, and the male element has a second concave recess facing said second projection of the female element, where the second convex surface of the second projection is complementary to the second concave recess of the male element, a second locking area being created between the male element and the female element.

3. The coupling system according to claim 1, wherein the female element has an opening connecting an outside of the female element with said cavity, said opening being connected with the space between the male element and the female element.

4. The coupling system according to claim 1, wherein the body or pin of the securing system is associated with a retaining element.

5. The coupling system according to claim 4, comprising a second cavity in at least one of the male element or the female element in an inner surface to receive the retaining element.

6. The system according to claim 4, comprising a third cavity in the body or pin of the securing system for receiving with the retaining element.

7. The system according to claim 4, wherein the body or pin has a first end with the shape and dimensions of the opening of the female element, such that once the body or pin is introduced in the space between the male element and the female element, the opening is blocked and the body or pin is retained without the possibility of traversing the hole, the retaining element being an element with resilient properties.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein the third cavity is in a top surface of the body or pin for housing the retaining element, such that a projection thereof emerges from the top surface of the body or pin for being housed in a groove of the female element or of the male element in the assembly position.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein the body or pin has the third cavity in a bottom surface of the body or pin for housing the retaining element, such that a projection of the retaining element emerges from the bottom surface of the body or pin for being housed in a groove of the male element in the assembly position.

10. The system according to claim 6, wherein the body or pin has the third cavity in a surface of the body or pin for housing the retaining element, such that a projection of the retaining element emerges from the top surface of the body or pin for contacting with an end of the cavity of the female element or for being housed in a groove of the female element in the assembly position.

11. The coupling system according to claim 3, wherein the male element has a partition in the concave recess crossing said concave recess and dividing said concave recess into two.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the body or pin has, between a first end and a second end, opposite the first end, of the body or pin coupling means for coupling with a first end of the retaining element, a second end of the retaining element opposite the first end of the retaining element being coupled to the partition.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the partition has a groove perpendicular to an edge thereof for coupling the second end of the retaining element.

14. The system according to claim 8, wherein the retaining element is housed in the third cavity arranged in the top surface of the body or pin and open on one of the side surfaces for housing an L-shaped retaining element which determines the projection emerging from the pin for being housed in a groove or cavity of the female element or of the male element in its the assembly position, and having a resilient element located between the retaining element and the body or pin.

15. The system according to claim 9, wherein the retaining element is a strip with two curvatures at ends of the retaining element configured to be fixed at one end to the third cavity in the bottom surface of the body or pin and at the opposite end to the partition arranged in the male element.

16. The system according to claim 10, wherein the retaining element is an L-shaped curved strip and a retaining end is fixed to a grooved cavity arranged in the top surface of the body or pin, the body or pin having a ramp at a second end to allow the movement of the strip during the assembly and disassembly, such that once assembled, the retaining end of the strip is in contact with the end of the cavity of the female element or is housed in the cavity of the female element.

17. The system according to claim 13, wherein the retaining element is a spring coupled at the first end of the retaining element to the second end of the body or pin, and coupled through the second end to the groove arranged in the partition of the male element.

18. The system according to claim 12, wherein the retaining element is a planar strip with at least one corrugation between the two ends of the retaining element, said two ends of the retaining element curved for being coupled at one end to a cavity arranged in the second end of the body or pin and at the opposite end for being coupled to the partition of the male element.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the strip has at least two corrugations between two ends of the strip.

20. The system according to claim 1, wherein the body or pin is a double pin and is formed by two curved bodies integrally attached at one end.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein the female element is a tooth or a tooth bar.

22. The system according to claim 1, wherein the male element is a tooth or a tooth bar.