•Order H&L's Heavy Duty Buckets featuring RHOM, or convert your existing bucket!
•Unique proprietary tip fit!
•Tested 30% to 80% stronger than comparable designs!
•Enhanced safety, greatly eases pin installation & removal
•H&L's superior alloy provides greater wear to life.
•More usable wear material, less throw away!
•Utilizes time tested, existing attachment hardware.

H&L Rhom System

With the development of larger engines, hydraulics, and increase breakout forces on construction equipment, there is a need in the industry for a stronger ground engaging tooth system. In the past., the solution was to increase the size of the tooth/adapter components to address this need, resulting in greater cost of G.E.T. acquisition.RHOM addresses the above dilemma by redirecting the adapter nose material to the vertical planes; resulting in greater strength in the direction in which the equipment excavates. This strengthening is accomplished without the use of additional material.Rhom achieves greater adapter nose and tooth pocket strength through it's unique design, and actually reduces tooth throwaway!
 

Safety First:

H&L Tooth recommends that you use a soft-faced hammer with suitable hand protection and OSHA approved safety glasses when installing or removing teeth!

Simplicity

Standard tooth-to-adapter connections are generally square with flat horizontal or vertical bearing pads (figure 1). These flat surface pads are constructed at 90-degree angles forming perpendicular corners. With conventional tip systems, two attachment options are generally offered, a vertically pinned installation or horizontally pinned system. Side installed pins produce a good retention system that is not affected by surface wear and places breakout loads into the adapter nose.

The vertically pinned attachment gives the end user easy removal and installation; it also removes any space requirement between adapter assemblies that would be necessary for pin installation or removal. By comparison, the Rhom creation uses a parallelogram cross-section to generate strength which allows the attachment hardware to assemble at a near 45-degree angle (figure 2). The Rhom series tooth and adapter brings to the table a system that is stronger in vertical load distribution, uses standard attachment hardware, and facilitates pin installation and removal.

As a result, gaps between adapter assemblies are now governed only by the tooth width. To summarize, the Rhom approach combines the convenience of a vertically pinned system, and security of a horizontally pinned system, all the while providing a much stronger adapter assembly.