Patent ID: 7730651
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
1. A wear member for excavating equipment comprising a front end and a rear end, the front end to contact materials to be excavated during digging by the excavating equipment, the rear end defining a rearwardly-opening socket to receive a supporting nose on the excavating equipment and being free of rearward projections to be received into the nose, the socket being defined by a top wall, a bottom wall and side walls and having a longitudinal axis, at least one of the top and bottom walls including a stabilizing projection extending into the socket along at least a central portion thereof, each said stabilizing projection having bearing surfaces facing generally away from each other to bear against opposite sides of a recess in the nose, each said bearing surface having a transverse inclination so as to resist loads applied in a vertical direction, and each said bearing surface axially extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis, each of the side walls including a side stabilizing projection for receipt within a recess in the nose, each said side stabilizing projection having side bearing surfaces facing generally away from each other to bear against opposite sides of a recess in the nose, each said side bearing surface having a transverse inclination to resist loads applied in a vertical direction, and each said side bearing surface axially extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis.