Hose support bracket for backhoe swing frame
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorJesse L. Schupback
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Abstract
A backhoe swing frame is connected to a support frame by means of a vertical pivot assembly. A hose support bracket is mounted on the swing frame and supports a plurality of hoses extending across the vertical pivot assembly from the support frame for conveying hydraulic fluid to and from a plurality of hydraulic actuators of the backhoe. The hose support bracket comprises a base plate to which the lower end of an upright plate is fixed, the upright plate being inclined away from the pivot assembly. A plurality of vertically oriented tabs are fixed to opposite ends of the upright plate and are each provided with a horizontally opening notch, the tabs being dimensioned and located such that the notches are spaced vertically and fore-and-aft from each other.
Claims9
In a hydraulically controlled apparatus including first and second members interconnected by a pivot assembly defining a pivot axis extending in a first direction and about which the first member is pivotable in opposite second and third directions from a centered position, at least three hydraulic hoses extending generally through the pivot axis and having first ends supported on the first member and second ends connected to a hose support structure mounted on the second member and projecting therefrom in the first direction, an improved hose support structure comprising:
- a base portion secured to the second member, a support portion fixed to the base in a generally perpendicular relationship to the plane of the base portion;
- mounting portion means integral with the support portion and defining at least three notches with first and second ones of the three notches being located at opposite sides of a plane containing the pivot axis and including the support portion and a third one of the notches being located away from the base a distance in the direction of a support portion axis which is different than the distance at which the first and second notches are spaced from the base;
- said support portion including said support portion axis and a bulkhead hose fitting releasably fixed in each of the notches and each of the hoses having a fitting at its second end connected to one of the bulkhead hose fittings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.