Patent ID: 9528242
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: E02F

Claim Text:
1. A front loader, comprising: a fixed bracket mountable to a vehicle body; a boom mounted to the fixed bracket so as to be vertically swingable about a first horizontal pivot; an implement mounted to a free-end part of the boom so as to be swingable about a second horizontal pivot; and a mechanical posture maintaining mechanism for substantially maintaining a posture of the implement one of: wherein: the boom has a curved shape in which a longitudinal central side of the boom is located above a center-to-center straight line extending between a center of the first pivot and a center of the second pivot; the posture maintaining mechanism includes: the swing link member is configured so that one of the free-end parts serves as an inner free-end part located inward in a boom bending direction from an upper surface of the boom, and the other free-end part serves as an outer free-end part located outward in the boom bending direction from the upper surface of the boom, and the boom includes: