Four brakes system for the doors of excavator buckets

• US 9,988,785 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2016
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Minetec SA
• Original Assignee: Minetec SA
• Inventors: Zamorano Jones, Claudio, Vera Torres, Bernardo, Chocobar Chvez, Rubn Felipe
• Primary Examiner(s): Troutman, Matthew D.
• Application Number:
  US15/058,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20170009423A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 37445
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/4075 Dump doors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2203 Arrangements for controlling the attitude of actuators, e.g. speed, floating function
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 13/00 Units comprising springs of the non-fluid type as well as vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or fluid springs F16F5/00, F16F6/00, F16F9/003 take precedence

Abstract

A brake system for the doors of excavator buckets which increases the braking force of the doors, allowing the use of heavier caps with more shield, increasing the durability and reliability, cushioning the blows of the door against the frame of the bucket and decreasing the likelihood that the whole system is deregulated at the same time.

Claims

1. An excavator bucket comprising:

a bucket;

a door hingedly connected to the bucket; and

a braking system including;

a first pair of brakes affixed to the bucket, each of the first pair of brakes having a first trajectory angle;

a second pair of brakes affixed to the bucket and disposed between the first pair of brakes, each of the second pair of brakes having a second trajectory angle different than the first trajectory angle; and

a plurality of linking arms, each linking arm connected at a first end to one brake of either the first pair of brakes or the second pair of brakes and connected at a second end to the door.

2. The excavator bucket of claim 1, wherein the linking arms connected to each of the brakes of the first pair of brakes is connected at the second end to an extension arm of the door.

3. The excavator bucket of claim 1, wherein the linking arms connected to each of the brakes of the second pair of brakes is connected at the second end to an upper part of the door.

4. The excavator bucket of claim 1, wherein the brakes of the first pair of brakes are disposed along a first line on the bucket.

5. The excavator bucket of claim 4, wherein the brakes of the second pair of brakes are disposed along a second line on the bucket, the second line being offset from the first line.

6. The excavator bucket of claim 5, wherein the second line is disposed nearer the door than is the first line.

7. The excavator bucket of claim 1, wherein at least one of the brakes is a hydraulic brake.

8. The excavator bucket of claim 1, wherein at least one of the brakes is a mechanical brake.