Patent ID: 6839990
Filing Date: 2005-01-11
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
1. A mounting system for a digging tooth, said mounting system comprising: an adaptor nose including a spigot having upper and lower bearing surfaces tapering convergently towards a free end of said nose, said adaptor nose having a connector abutment located in an upper portion of said nose remote from said free end; and, a digging tooth having a convergently tapering socket to receivably locate said adaptor nose, said digging tooth having a rearwardly extending shroud with a tooth coupling adapted to cooperate with a screw-threaded connector extending between said coupling and said abutment in a direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of said digging tooth, said shroud extending over said tooth coupling and a free end of said screw-threaded connector, and shrouding at least portion of said nose rearwardly of said bearing surface, and further wherein said tooth coupling comprises a screw-threaded aperture in said tooth to receive a threaded end of a screw-threaded connector.