Patent ID: 6564539
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: B21K,B21L,B62D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for mechanically connecting joints of an endless track chain for track-type machines to prevent end play in such joints, each joint including a track link and a cylindrical pin, each link having an inboard end collar with a first bore therethrough and an outboard end collar with a pin boss extending outwardly therefrom and a second bore therethrough, the boss having an outer side surface, the pin having an end portion being pressed and non-rotatably mounted into a respective second bore of the outboard end collar, the apparatus comprising:an annular frustoconical groove formed in the end portion of the pin, each frustoconical groove being disposed within the base at a location along the pin boss; a swage tool having a plurality of spaced swage segments contacting the outer side surface of the pin boss and being moveable in the axial direction to extrude a nodule from the side surface of the pin boss into the frustoconical groove, the nodule having a cross-sectional configuration conforming to the shape and cross-section of the frustoconical groove.