Patent ID: 6249995
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: E02F,Y10T

Abstract:
An excavator bucket and bucket linkage connection for mounting an excavator bucket on a rotation linkage and a dipper stick linkage of a hydraulic excavator, said linkage connection comprising a first linkage opening provided in the excavator bucket; a second linkage opening provided in the excavator bucket in vertically spaced-apart relationship to said first linkage opening; a first pin plate disposed in said first linkage opening for engaging the dipper stick linkage of the hydraulic excavator; and a second pin plate disposed in said second linkage opening for engaging the rotation linkage of the hydraulic excavator, wherein said first pin plate has a diameter smaller than a diameter of said first linkage opening, said second pin plate has a diameter smaller than a diameter of said second linkage opening, said dipper stick linkage is spaced from said first pin plate and said rotation linkage is spaced from said second pin plate, whereby the excavator bucket is capable of substantially universal pivoting, tilting and shifting movements on the hydraulic excavator.