Patent ID: 6460625
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
A slopeboard mounting structure for a bulldozer in combination with a primary push blade with a back, a long arm, and a slopeboard having a bottom inside edge as well as a front and a bottom, which comprises:an angled link having a longer arm attached at an acute angle to a shorter arm, said longer arm also having a free end and said angled link being, at a vertex formed by the longer arm and the shorter arm, rotatably attached to the primary push blade high on the back of the primary push blade; a fluid-powered cylinder having a closed end and an end from which a cylinder rod having a free end exits, the closed end of said cylinder being rotatably attached to the free end of the longer arm of said angled link and the free of the cylinder rod being adapted for rotatable connection to a slopeboard; a link arm having a first end and a second end with said first end being adapted for rotatable connection to a slopeboard and with said second end rotatably connected to the end of the shorter arm of said angled link that is away from the vertex of the angled link; and a support arm attached to the slopeboard and adapted for rotatable attachment to a long arm of the bulldozer.