Earth scraper
OwnerIan DAVIESinventor
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Abstract
Described is an earth scraper including multiple buckets to receive earth scraped by a scraper blade. A lifter mechanism is provided to move one of the buckets between elevated and lowered positions.
Claims24
A scraper comprising a container, a lifter and a blade, the container having a lower floor and an upper floor, the scraper being formed such that:
- the blade is arranged to scrape earth from the ground so the earth moves into the container and onto the upper floor;
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- wherein the lifter is configured to move the upper floor upwardly and rearwardly to create a space between the two floors such that further earth scraped by the scraper enters and is retained in that space.
A scraper according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising a structural frame supporting the container.
A scraper according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising an accumulator that stores energy from the tractor unit and uses that energy to at least assist in raising the/an upper floor of the container when laden with scraped earth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.