Patent ID: 6272775
Filing Date: 2001-08-14
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
An excavator bucket comprising a bucket body having sidewalls, and a floor, said sidewalls defining a front opening and a rear opening, a gate for closing the rear opening, and defining a gate plane, a draft member for moving the bucket to load material from a forward end of the bucket, and a hoist member for hoisting the bucket and connected to the bucket so that the bucket will dump rearwardly when loaded, a bellcrank arrangement mounting the gate to the sidewalls including a mounting pivot for the bellcrank relative to the sidewalls of the bucket, and a gate pivot on the bellcrank spaced from the mounting pivot and positioned so that when the bellcrank is rotated to move the gate pivot upwardly, the gate slides substantially along its plane, and a latch between the gate and the bucket releasable upon movement of said gate upwardly along said gate plane.