Boom attachment for a prime mover

A boom attachment for a prime mover for lifting and setting trusses, walls, beams, and related structural components. The boom attachment for a prime mover includes a boom assembly including a prime-mover attachment assembly being adapted to mount to a prime mover, and also including a plurality of elongate support members, and further including transverse and cross members interconnecting the elongate support members; and also includes an extension assembly being movably and adjustably mounted to the boom assembly.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a boom attachment and more particularly pertains to a new boom attachment for a prime mover for lifting and setting trusses, walls, beams, and related structural components.

2. Description of the Prior Art

The use of a boom attachment is known in the prior art. More specifically, a boom attachment heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.

While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new boom attachment for a prime mover. The inventive device includes a boom assembly including a prime-mover attachment assembly being adapted to mount to a prime mover, and also including a plurality of elongate support members, and further including transverse and cross members interconnecting the elongate support members; and also includes an extension assembly being movably and adjustably mounted to the boom assembly.

In these respects, the boom attachment for a prime mover according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of lifting and setting trusses, walls, beams, and related structural components.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of boom attachment now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new boom attachment for a prime mover construction wherein the same can be utilized for lifting and setting trusses, walls, beams, and related structural components.

The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which has many of the advantages of the boom attachment mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new boom attachment for a prime mover which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art boom attachment, either alone or in any combination thereof.

To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a boom assembly including a prime-mover attachment assembly being adapted to mount to a prime mover, and also including a plurality of elongate support members, and further including transverse and cross members interconnecting the elongate support members; and also includes an extension assembly being movably and adjustably mounted to the boom assembly.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which has many of the advantages of the boom attachment mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new boom attachment for a prime mover which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art boom attachment, either alone or in any combination thereof.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which is of a durable and reliable construction.

An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such boom attachment for a prime mover economically available to the buying public.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover for lifting and setting trusses, walls, beams, and related structural components.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover which includes a boom assembly including a prime-mover attachment assembly being adapted to mount to a prime mover, and also including a plurality of elongate support members, and further including transverse and cross members interconnecting the elongate support members; and also includes an extension assembly being movably and adjustably mounted to the boom assembly.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover that is easy and convenient to attach to a prime mover such as a skid steer.

Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new boom attachment for a prime mover that is versatile and strong to withstand a lot of weight being put on the top transverse member.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to FIGS. 1 through 6 thereof, a new boom attachment for a prime mover embodying the principles and concepts of the present invention and generally designated by the reference numeral 10 will be described.

As best illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 6 , the boom attachment for a prime mover 10 generally comprises a boom assembly 11 including a prime-mover attachment assembly 24 being adapted to mount to a prime mover 35 , and also including a plurality of elongate support members 12 , and further including transverse 15 , 19 and cross members 16 interconnecting the elongate support members 12 . The transverse members 15 include base transverse members which are securely and conventionally attached at first ends 13 of the elongate support members 12 . The first ends 13 of the elongate support members 12 are spaced apart. The base transverse members 15 are arranged to form a base rectangular structure 17 with the first ends 13 of the elongate support members 12 being at corners of the base rectangular structure 17 . The transverse members 15 , 19 further includes a plurality of intermediate transverse members being arranged to form a plurality of intermediate rectangular structures 18 . The intermediate rectangular structures 18 are spaced apart with the elongate support members 12 being conventionally attached at corners of the intermediate rectangular structures 18 . The transverse members 15 , 19 also include a top transverse member 19 being securely attached to second ends 14 of the elongate support members 12 . The boom assembly 11 is tapered from the first ends 13 of the elongate support members 12 to the second ends 14 of the elongate support members 12 . Pairs of the elongate support members 12 are conventionally and securely attached to ends of the top transverse member 19 . The cross members 16 generally interconnect the intermediate rectangular structures 18 to further strengthen the boom assembly 11 . The boom assembly 11 further includes an extension support assembly 21 being securely and conventionally attached to one of the intermediate rectangular structures 18 . The extension support assembly 21 includes bracket members 22 which are conventionally attached to the intermediate rectangular structure 18 and also includes a tubular support member 23 being securely and conventionally attached to the bracket members 22 . The prime-mover attachment assembly 24 includes plate-like members 25 being securely and conventionally attached to the base rectangular structure 15 . The boom assembly 11 further includes a first clevis member 20 being securely and conventionally attached to the top transverse member 19 .

An extension assembly is movably and adjustably mounted to the boom assembly 11 . The extension assembly includes an elongate tubular member 26 having a first end 27 and a second end 28 and being extendable through the first clevis member 20 , and also includes a base support member 29 being securely and conventionally attached to the first end 27 of the elongate tubular member 26 and being supportable upon the tubular support member 23 of the boom assembly 11 , and further includes hook-like bracket members 33 being securely and conventionally attached to the elongate tubular member 26 and being adapted to hook upon the intermediate transverse members 15 , and also includes a second clevis member 34 which is securely and conventionally attached to the second end 28 of the elongate tubular member 26 . The base support member 29 is generally an angled plate-like member 30 having a first portion 31 which is securely and conventionally attached perpendicularly to the first end 27 of the elongate tubular member 26 and also having a second portion 32 which is angled approximately 90 degrees relative to the first portion 31 and which is removably mounted upon the extension support assembly 21 for holding the elongate support member 26 upon the boom assembly

In use, the user attaches the prime-mover attachment assembly 24 to the prime mover 35 and moves the boom assembly 11 upwardly to the desired location and uses the second clevis member 34 to hook onto trusses, beams and other structural components and moves such structural components to the desired locations.