Patent ID: 8250785

Claim:
A dragline bucket comprising a bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls, and a rear wall that collectively define a cavity for gathering earthen material, and a lip fixed to a front end of the bottom wall, the sidewalls in at least the forward area laterally converging toward each other as they extend toward the bottom wall, each said sidewall being at an angle of about seven to twenty degrees to vertical, and the bucket having a length which is a horizontal distance between an average forward position of a leading edge of the lip and a rearmost position of the cavity, a height which is an average vertical distance between an inside surface of the bottom wall at the front end and the entire length of the top ends of the sidewalls excluding any cutback at the rear wall and upward extensions of arch supports or dump line supports, and a ratio of the height to the length of about 0.4 to 0.62.