Patent ID: 6896472

Claim:
A material handling apparatus comprising; a frame structure means having a support member extending in the general forward and backward directions, and an attachment means mounted to the general forward area of said support member; a generally upright bucket means pivotally mounted at its general bottom center to the general backward area of said support member of said frame structure means, such that the open end of said bucket means is pointing in the generally upward direction; a power transfer means comprising at least one conventional cylinder means having an accompanying piston means, said cylinder means mounted in a generally horizontal position to the general forward area of said frame structure means, such that said accompanying piston means may be moved in the general forward and backward directions; and a linkage means mounted at one end to said piston means and at its other end to said bucket means, such that said open end of said bucket means may be pivoted to point in the generally forward direction when the piston is retracted forward, and said open end of said bucket means may be pivoted to point in the generally backward direction when the piston is extended generally backward, with the pivot point of said linkage member with said bucket means creating a reciprocating arcuate path about the pivot point of said bucket means and said support member of said frame structure means, when the apparatus is in normal operation; whereby said apparatus may be attached to the rear lift of a tractor through said attachment means of said frame structure means, said tractor having a conventional hydraulic supply operatively connected to said cylinder means, said hydraulic supply used to move said piston in the general forward and backward directions, such that said open end of said bucket means may be pivoted to point in the forward and backward directions so that material may be loaded and unloaded into said open end while said apparatus is being moved in the respective forward and backward directions.