Attachment for utility tractors and skid steer vehicles

• US 20060289180A1
• Filed: 08/27/2004
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DW Attachments, LLC
• Original Assignee: DW Attachments, LLC
• Inventors: Wentling, Donovan L.
• Application Number:
  US10/570,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20060289180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 172/817
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 31/00 Drags graders for field cultivators graders in general E02F
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 87/122 for bales on the ground vehicles for loading A01D90/08
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/065 non-masted mobile jacks of the garage type mounted on wheels or rollers B66F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/627 Devices to connect beams or arms to tractors or similar self-propelled machines, e.g. drives therefor connection of beams or booms or arms to the frame per se E02F3/382; connection of scraper bowls to the vehicle main body E02F3/653; connecting devices for agriculture tractors A01B59/06
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/76 Graders, bulldozers, or the like with scraper plates or ploughshare-like elements soil-working A01B; Levelling scarifying devices street cleaning E01H; construction of roads E01C19/00, E01C23/00

Abstract

An attachment for treating soil-like material and for attachment to a tractor or skid steer vehicle having a frame with inwardly inclined transporting elements for distributing the material being treated.

Claims

1. An attachment for treating soil-like material and for attachment to a tractor or skid steer vehicle including:

a frame having a front rail, a rear rail, spaced apart side rails interconnecting the front and rear rails;

transporting bars attached to the side members of said frame in spaced apart relation to one another and angled in respect of the front and rear rails of said frame, the transporting bars operative to direct the material being treated to travel toward or away from the side rails of said frame dependent upon the direction of travel of said frame; and

means for disengagably connecting said frame to a tractor or skid steer vehicle.

2. An attachment for treating soil-like material and for attachment to a tractor or skid steer vehicle wherein the tractor or skid steer vehicle includes an main body, a lift mechanism connected to the front end of the main body, and coupling means extending from the lift mechanism, said attachment comprising:

a frame having a front rail, a rear rail, spaced apart side rails interconnecting the front and rear rails;

transporting bars attached to the side rails of said frame in spaced apart relation to one another and angled in respect of the front and rear rails of said frame, the transporting bars operative to direct the material being treated to travel toward or away from the side rails of said frame dependent upon the direction of travel of said frame; and

means for disengagably connecting said frame to the coupling means extending from the lift mechanism.

3. The invention defined in claim 2 wherein said means for disengagably connecting said frame includes at least one upstanding mounting plate affixed to said frame.

4. The invention defined in claim 3 wherein said means for disengagably connecting said frame includes a pair of spaced apart upstanding mounting plates.

5. The invention defined in claim 4 wherein said means for disengagably connecting said frames further includes a bracket affixed to each of the mounting plates for connection to the coupling means extending from the lift mechanism.

6. The invention defined in claim 2 wherein said transporting bars extend inwardly from the side rails of said frame at an angle of approximately from about 24°

to about 12°

from the front rail of said frame.