Patent ID: 8764128

Claim:
A ground engaging track having track shoes with inboard and outboard edges connectable via track links in an endless chain configuration about a drive sprocket and an idler in a track-type machine, the ground engaging track comprising: a set of identical standard track shoes each including a standard shoe body having bolting apertures formed therein and communicating between an upper shoe surface and a ground contacting shoe surface, and an outer perimeter defining a first shoe footprint; a sweeping track shoe, for sweeping debris from a clearance between the track and a main frame of the track-type machine, including a sweeping shoe body having bolting apertures formed therein and communicating between an upper shoe surface and a ground contacting shoe surface, and an outer perimeter defining a second shoe footprint which is wider than the first shoe footprint; a ground contacting footprint of the track being a composite of the first and second shoe footprints of the standard and sweeping track shoes; the bolting apertures in each of the standard track shoes and the sweeping track shoe being arranged in an identical link bolting pattern, such that the sweeping track shoe juts in an inboard direction outwardly of the standard track shoes in the endless chain configuration, and the ground contacting footprint juts in coincidence with the sweeping track shoe.