Patent ID: 7739815

Claim:
A ripper tooth for use on an excavation tool comprising a tool body mounted for rotation on an arm of an excavation machine, said ripper tooth being mountable to the tool body for ripping engagement with a substrate and comprising: a plurality of ripper tooth portions, each ripper tooth portion with a ripper tooth tip disposed at a forward end thereof for ripping engagement with the substrate; each ripper tooth tip being laterally spaced apart from the other ripper tooth tips of the plurality of ripper tooth portions in a general direction along the axis of rotation of said ripper excavation tool relative to the arm, each ripper tooth tip being angularly spaced apart from the other ripper tooth tips of the plurality of ripper tooth portions in a general direction of substrate ripping motion, and each ripper tooth portion being disposed on a axis different from all other ripper tooth portions of the ripper tooth.