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Class 37/409 - Multicomponent tool (e.g., scoop or bucket) convertible by relative movement of tool parts


Subclass of Class 37 - Excavating
Definition: Apparatus wherein two or more implements movably cooperate
No. of patents: 41
Last issue date: 01/19/2010


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7647713Bucket or scoop with adjustable capacity
A bucket or scoop with adjustable capacity has a fixed structure which forms an external rigid element and also has one or several mobile elements, complementary to the fixed structure, which slide inside the same by means of special devices. The special devices are...
01/19/2010
7506462Excavation bucket assembly
An excavation bucket assembly (10) is mounted to a tractor. A soil gathering trenching blade (48) is supported by an upwardly extending rear wall (18) and is movable down through a soil receiving opening (32) to scoop soil from beneath th...
03/24/2009
7356949Scraping device and a system and a method for collecting materials
A scraping device, a system and a method for collecting a material are provided. The scraping device may have a bowl having a first end and a second end. A lip may be positioned at the first end and may cover an opening at the first end. In an embodiment, direct mou...
04/15/2008
7284345Milling device for floors, rock, excavated material or other material
The milling apparatus (1) has a bucket with a receiving chamber and has a milling unit with a milling rotor (14). The receiving chamber has a receiving opening (4) and is embodied as a bucket (2). On the bottom of the bucket (2), a...
10/23/2007
7249429Quick-release bucket adapter
A manipulator assembly for attachment to a bucket of a construction vehicle is disclosed. The manipulator assembly includes a universal attachment apparatus for attaching a utility tool to the bucket. The universal attachment apparatus includes a housing adapted to ...
07/31/2007
7066275Rock separator with beveled tines and removable grates
An implement for removing rocks and preparing soil for landscaping or seeding includes a bucket attached to the lift arm of a skidsteer loader by an appropriate hitch mechanism. The bucket includes a frame mounted on the outer end thereof which supports removable an...
06/27/2006
6996925Combination plow and claw assembly
A combination plow and claw assembly is provided which is attached to a vehicle. The assembly is used for plowing a surface and/or for clawing a surface wherein the function of the combination plow and claw assembly can be easily changed by an operator of the vehicl...
02/14/2006
6910289Scraping device and a system and a method for collecting materials
A scraping device, a system and a method for collecting a material are provided. The scraping device may have a bowl having a first end and a second end. A lip may be positioned at the first end and may cover an opening at the first end. In an embodiment, direct mou...
06/28/2005
6892482Combination plow and claw assembly
A combination plow and claw assembly is provided which is attached to a vehicle. The assembly is used for plowing a surface and/or for clawing a surface wherein the function of the combination plow and claw assembly can be easily changed by an operator of the vehicl...
05/17/2005
6877259Pin assembly and implements connecting apparatus
The invention provides a pin assembly and Implements connecting apparatus which can replace a working device such as a bucket or the like easily and for a short time. A first member (20) having a pair of brackets (18, 19) is connected to a second membe...
04/12/2005
6860044Quick attachable blade
A blade attachment that can be attached to an excavator or backhoe in 10 seconds and removed in 3 seconds from the operator's seat without the need for tools, nuts, bolts, pins, chains, hoses or additional personnel. The blade attachment is secured to the bucket wit...
03/01/2005
6612051Hydraulic collection tool
A tool assembly using a fluid-powered actuator and including first and second tool members. The first tool member is pivotably connectable to a boom arm of a vehicle or stationary support platform for rotation about a first axis. The first tool member is ...
09/02/2003
6408551Bucket
Bucket (1) intended to be carried by means of an arm or the like for manoeuvring and comprising a bottom and back part and opposing side parts (4), which parts together from a load space (5) with an opening (6) having an edge part (8) connected to the bot...
06/25/2002
6370801Hydraulic collection tool
A tool assembly using a fluid-powered actuator and including first and second tool members. The first tool member is pivotably connectable to a boom arm of a vehicle or stationary support platform for rotation about a first axis. The first tool member is ...
04/16/2002
6269560Sweeping assembly for excavating machines and the like
A sweeping assembly for a machine having a handle generally comprising a first implement pivotally connectable to the handle; a strut assembly including a first arm member operatively connectable to the handle, a second arm member and a spring device oper...
08/07/2001
6202331Arm with simplified attachment removable unit for construction equipment
In an arm with an attachment removable unit, a reinforcing plate 14 is provided in a space between a pair of bracket portions 12, 12 which are formed by extending the opposite side walls of an arm so as to protrude from the upper and lower walls thereof. ...
03/20/2001
6098321Bucket converter for an excavation bucket
A bucket converter for providing improved excavation versatility that couples with and attaches to an excavation. The bucket converter comprises a volume increasing frame coupled and semi-fixedly attached to an excavation bucket for increasing the volumet...
08/08/2000
5988948Underwater plough and method for varying ploughing depth
An underwater plough for ploughing an underwater bed, the plough comprising a first share (10) and a second share (21) which is movable with respect to the first share whereby the depth of the ploughing profile presented by the plough can be varied....
11/23/1999
5964050Screening device
A screening device, intended to be detachably fastened on a bucket of a digging machine, which in a suitable way includes a hydraulically operable arm, which is arranged to be detachably fastened on the bucket. The outer portion of the arm including a pla...
10/12/1999
5940996Material ejecting loader bucket
The present invention is directed toward a loader bucket which has a back bucket assembly, a front bucket assembly that pivotably mounts to the back bucket assembly forming an extension thereof in the closed position and an actuator for pivoting the front...
08/24/1999
5729920Attachment for a grab implement
A grab implement comprising a fixed part (31) and a movable part (30) pivotally coupled thereto to form a grab, the fixed part (31) having a continuous rear wall member (2) and a continuous floor member (4) projecting forwardly therefrom, the floor member...
03/24/1998
5715614Transplant apparatus
A transplant machine including a bucket for digging a plant such as trees and shrubs from the ground, a main frame for pivotably supporting the bucket, an arm for lifting the main frame, a shaft extending from the main frame at right angles and an interme...
02/10/1998
5592761Backhoe scarifying apparatus
A scarifying assembly mounted in a backhoe bucket is disclosed herein having a toothed roller operably carried between spaced-apart support arms which include bearings and a chain or geared drive coupled to a hydraulic power source. The attachments for as...
01/14/1997
5555944Twin-scrape dozer
A twin-scrape dozer, capable of maintaining a satisfactory balance during earth loading, of loading a larger quantity of earth, of efficiently conveying earth even over a soft ground, and of adjusting the rate at which earth is scattered, has a crawler ty...
09/17/1996
5438772Tool for implements
A tool for mounting on an implement, in the case of which different functional working ranges are provided with which respectively separate operations are able to be performed. In order to create a multi-purpose tool of this type which at the same time ha...
08/08/1995
5375349Wing assembly for moldboards of graders and other material moving equipment
A side wing attachment assembly for moldboards includes hydraulically actuated, spaced wing plate members capable of being placed predetermined distances from one another, forming with the moldboard material moving surface a containment pocket for materia...
12/27/1994
5337834Disk excavating and grading attachment
An earth moving machine attachment is disclosed comprising a plurality of disk units mounted to a disk unit mounting beam which is fixed to a beam pushing frame for pivotally coupling to a dozer or tractor C frame. The beam pushing frame is angled obtusel...
08/16/1994
5311684Scooping apparatus, vehicle and coupling plate therefore
A scooping apparatus is disclosed having a carrying frame coupled with a vehicle. A cage having two cage parts, namely a scooping part and a lid are carried by the frame. The rotation axis of the lid part relative to the scooping part extending on a radia...
05/17/1994
5297351Blades for snow-removal vehicles and vehicles therewith
Blades are used in association with snow buckets articulated from snow-removing vehicles. In a preferred embodiment, the snow bucket comprises rotatably mounted about its lateral sides, a floating snow blade outwardly projectable substantially horizontall...
03/29/1994
5165191Front end loader attachment convertible between loading bucket and side-shift-angle dozer configurations
A quick-convert bucket attachment for front end loaders has hydraulically positioned, interlocking bucket components that may be manipulated by controls at the tractor seat or other convenient location for rapid conversion of the attachment from a general...
11/24/1992
4974350Blade/scoop unit for bulldozer
A dozer blade/scoop unit comprising a dozer blade, a mounting mechanism on the blade adapted to affix the same to the elevator arms of a dozer, a scoop having a floor and side walls, cooperating hinge mechanisms on the blade and on the scoop pivotally con...
12/04/1990
4928410Reversible clam shell bucket
A material handling apparatus connected to a prime mover having first and second jaws, the first jaw connected and configured to approximate a grading blade for a bulldozer, and the second jaw connected to the first jaw in one of two orientations, 180 deg...
05/29/1990
4890400Bucket attachment for tractor blade
An attachment adapted to cooperate with a snow blade or the like of a tractor to provide a dump bucket at the front end thereof is disclosed. The attachment enhances the materials moving capability of the tractor by enabling the tractor to pick up materia...
01/02/1990
4566844Bucket for material
In a loader bucket having a back member pivotable on a boom assembly which is pivotable on a tractor and a front member pivotable on the back member, power-operated means for effecting relative pivoting of the members have comprised two hydraulic piston-a...
01/28/1986
4524532Box blade with movable closure blade
A box blade assembly for attachment to earth moving vehicles has a rotatable semi-cylindrical closure blade. The box blade includes a pair of spaced parallel side walls, an open front, top, and bottom, and a rear wall having a depending scraper blade atta...
06/25/1985
4407080Pivotally mounted ripping teeth assembly on dozer blade
This invention is an attachment to heavy equipment blades and has a set of ripping teeth projecting downwardly from a pivoting support frame. The frame ordinarily extends downwardly from the pivotal hanger along the front of the blade, with the teeth proj...
10/04/1983
4372063Brush clearing apparatus for a bulldozer blade
A brush clearing apparatus for a bulldozer blade having a rake pivotally mounted on the blade for movement about an axis along the upper edge of the blade between an operational position in which the rake engages the bulldozing face of the blade and a ret...
02/08/1983
4241525Swing-away bulldozer teeth assembly
A set of ripping teeth secured to a bulldozer blade in either a deployed or undeployed position. The teeth project from a pair of integrally formed support frames with the upper edge of each frame terminating in respective tubular mounting sleeves. Mounti...
12/30/1980
4117610Combination bulldozer blade and bucket assembly for earth working equipment
A combination bulldozer blade and materials handling bucket is mounted on the front end of an earth working machine. The bulldozer blade portion of the combination device is generally constructed and arranged to function in a substantially conventional ma...
10/03/1978
4051614High capacity loader blade
A dozer blade with loading capabilities includes a curved plate or blade for cutting into the soil and to which is secured a pair of laterally spaced arms pivotally supporting a rotatable assembly comprising a load plate extending generally radially from ...
10/04/1977
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