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A scraping apparatus is provided for a track-type vehicle which has a track with a chain and shoes. The scraping apparatus has first and second scraping elements each having first and second opposed cutting edges. The first scraping element removes foreign material from the chain and the second scra

A scraping apparatus is provided for a track-type vehicle which has a track with a chain and shoes. The scraping apparatus has first and second scraping elements each having first and second opposed cutting edges. The first scraping element removes foreign material from the chain and the second scraping element removes foreign material from the shoes. The scraping apparatus removes foreign material during forward and rearward movement of the track.

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A scraping apparatus for a track-type vehicle having a frame, a wheel having a vertical diameter and a horizontal diameter and an endless track having a chain and shoes, said endless track being entrained about the wheel with a portion of the track tangent to the wheel at the horizontal diameter bei

A scraping apparatus for a track-type vehicle having a frame, a wheel having a vertical diameter and a horizontal diameter and an endless track having a chain and shoes, said endless track being entrained about the wheel with a portion of the track tangent to the wheel at the horizontal diameter being horizontally displaced from a portion of the track aligned with the vertical diameter, comprising: a first generally planar scraping element having first and second opposed cutting edges, and a curved edge extending between the first and second cutting edges, said first cutting edge lying above a horizontal plane containing the horizontal diameter, said second cutting edge lying below the horizontal plane, said first scraping element being positioned substantially vertically parallel to the portion of the track chain which is tangent to the wheel at the horizontal diameter, said curved edge curving from its center toward the vertical diameter; and a second scraping element having first and second cutting edges which form a general “C”configuration and being connected to the first scraping element, said first cutting edge having one end connected to the first scraping element adjacent the curved edge above the horizontal plane, said second cutting edge having one end connected to the first cutting element adjacent the curved edge below the horizontal plane, said cutting edges having their other ends connected substantially at the horizontal plane.