ADAPTER APPARATUS FOR TRACTOR

• US 3,834,567 A
• Filed: 08/08/1972
• Issued: 09/10/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph Miller
• Original Assignee: Joseph Miller
• Inventors: Miller, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheridan, Robert G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mannix, John
• Application Number:
  US05/278,709
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• Field of Search: 214/145,750,620,131A
• US Class Current: 414/724
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 87/0053 Tractor-mounted loaders buck-rakes, transporting rakes A01D87/08; manure loaders A01C3/04; fork loaders, fork lifts B66F; earth-moving machines E02F
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/401 Buckets or forks comprising, for example, shock absorbers, supports or load striking scrapers to prevent overload

Abstract

An adapter apparatus for the conventional bucket of a tractor or high lift which converts the conventional bucket thereof to a special purpose bucket having a plurality of prongs which handle loose barnyard fertilizer or hay.

Claims

1. An adapter apparatus for use with a conventional bucket having side walls, back wall and a bottom wall presenting an open end bucket;

comprising an elongated thin support member with spaced end portions and a longitudinally extending edge portion with said edge portion being positioned for abutting contact to the front edge of the bottom wall of a bucket;

a plurality of prong members secured to said support member and extending outwardly away from the bottom wall;

said prong members lying in spaced parallel relationship with the respective outermost prong members lying at the respective end portions of said support member and having their rEarwardly disposed side portions in abutting contact with said side walls of the bucket;

certain ones of said prong members extending rearwardly from said support member and having portions that lie in abutting contact with the bottom wall of said bucket;

the remaining ones of said prong members having their rearwardlymost portion secure to said elongated support member; and

means for connecting said certain ones of said prong members to the bottom wall of a bucket.

2. An adapter apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said rearwardly extending portions of said certain ones of said prongs are bifurcated for contacting the upper and lower surfaces of the bottom wall.

3. An adapter apparatus for use with the conventional bucket of a tractor comprising an elongated narrow support member having a longitudinally extending planar surface for abutting contact to the edge of the bucket, said support member having a plurality of prongs extending at right angles outwardly therefrom, said outwardly extending prongs being elongated members tapering to a point, certain ones of said prongs having bifurcated portions extending rearwardly from said support member in a direction opposite to said outwardly extending direction, and connecting means on said rearwardly extending bifurcated portions of said certain ones of said prongs for interconnecting said certain prongs to the bucket.