Patent ID: 11952740
Assignee: AUSTIN ENGINEERING LIMITED
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 0:
1. A bucket for moving ground material, the bucket comprising:
a handling section that is separably coupled to a separate load section, the handling section and the load section forming a fixed mouth through which ground material is received into the load section and through which ground material is discharged, wherein:
the load section comprises a base, a wall extending up from the base, and an open side that defines the mouth;
the handling section comprises a mounting arrangement configured for coupling to a hydraulic bucket handling arrangement for pivoting the bucket between a loading position and a discharge position;
the handling section includes a mounting formation and the load section includes a further mounting formation that is complementary to said mounting formation, and the load and handling sections are connected together so that the load section is separable from the handling section and can be separated and replaced with another load section; and
the handling section comprises a mounting plate and a skirt extending away from the mounting plate, and the mounting formation comprises the skirt, and the mounting formation is configured to receive the further mounting formation therein with a surface of the mounting formation and a surface of the further mounting formation in abutment.