Patent ID: 7100315

Claim:
A wear assembly for an excavator having a digging edge, the wear assembly comprising an adapter fixed to the excavator, a wear member, and a lock to secure the wear member to the adapter, the adapter and wear member having a nose and the having a socket for receiving the nose, the nose and the wear member each having converging walls converging toward a front end, and opposite sidewalls, one of the socket or nose including at least one rail extending from a sidewall thereof and oriented at the same general inclination as the converging walls, and the including at least one groove into which the rail is received, wherein the socket is defined by opposed converging surfaces each extending at an inclination to the longitudinal axis of the socket and by side surfaces wherein at least one said side surface includes a lateral surface between the converging surfaces as a part of the at least one groove to engage the rail, and wherein each said lateral surface faces toward one of the converging surfaces and extends generally in the same inclined direction relative to the longitudinal axis as the converging surface the lateral surface faces.