US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining on Sept. 1 for "Bearing assembly for driveshafts of draglines" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,365, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining LLC (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Bearing assembly for driveshafts of draglines" was invented by Philip Craig Smith (Beaconsfield, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly for a driveshaft that facilitates a swinging movement of a frame of a dragline with respect to a base of the dragline. The bearing assembly includes a housing, a spherical bearing, and a thrust bearing. The housing is fixedly engageable with the frame and defines a cavity to provide rotatable passage to the driveshaft therethrough. The spherical bearing is engageable with each of the housing a...