Apparatus for temporarily covering a large land area

Apparatus for suspending a flexible cover a spaced distance from a front loader bucket of an earth-moving vehicle, comprising:

• a cross member having opposed free ends and an intermediate portion;
• a pair of spaced apart rearwardly extending extension arms joined at one end to the intermediate portion of the cross member and having second, opposed free ends;
• a lateral member extending between the extension arms adjacent the free ends thereof;
• upstanding reinforcing spines upwardly extending from the extension arms and having free ends spaced from the free ends of the extension arms;
• means for releasably supporting the flexible cover at a series of spaced locations along said cross member;
• a pair of spaced apart generally parallel tubular enclosures for attachment to the bucket, having forward arm-receiving openings and a spine-receiving slot so as to receive the free ends of the reinforcing spines;
• a pair of ears upstanding from forward ends of the enclosures defining a spine-receiving aperture;
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• the free ends of said extension arms dimensioned for reception in the enclosures with the spines received in the ears and the enclosure slots so that the support arms receive cantilever support from the enclosures and the ears as the bucket is raised and lowered.

Apparatus for suspending a flexible cover from a bucket mounted at the end of a pivotable arm of an earth-moving vehicle, the bucket having opposed sides, the apparatus comprising:

• a cross member having opposed free ends and an intermediate portion;
• a pair of spaced apart mounting plates at the intermediate portion of the cross member and upstanding thereabove to receive a portion of the bucket with the mounting plates overlying opposed sides of the bucket, said mounting plates each defining a plurality of apertures therein for receiving locking pins extending to the bucket sides;
• locking pins extending through the mounting plate apertures to the bucket sides for mounting the cross member to the bucket so as to maintain the cross member generally parallel to the ground as the pivotable arm is pivoted toward and away from the ground;
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• a plurality of swingably mounted hook means carried by the cross member for releasably supporting the flexible cover at a series of spaced locations along an edge of the flexible cover, whereby the hook means adjust for different spacings along the flexible cover edge and provide continuous lifting support for the flexible cover edge as the flexible cover is raised and lowered by said cross member as the pivotable arm is pivoted toward and away from the ground.

Apparatus for suspending of flexible cover a spaced distance from a front loader bucket of an earth-moving vehicle comprising:

• a cross member having opposed free ends and an intermediate portion;
• a pair of spaced apart rearwardly extending extension arms joined at one end to the intermediate portion of the cross member and having second, opposed free ends;
• a lateral member extending between the extension arms adjacent the free ends thereof;
• upstanding reinforcing spines upwardly extending from the extension arms and having free ends spaced from the free ends of the extension arms;
• a pair of spaced apart generally parallel tubular enclosures for attachment to the bucket having forward arm-receiving openings;
• a pair of ears upstanding from forward ends of the enclosures defining a spine-receiving aperture;
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• the free ends of said extension arms dimensioned for reception in the enclosures with the spines received in the ears so that the support arms receive cantilever support from the enclosure and the ears as the bucket is raised and lowered;
• means for releasably supporting the flexible cover at a series of spaced locations along said cross member.
• a pair of spaced apart generally parallel tubular enclosures for attachment to the bucket having forward arm-receiving openings;
• a pair of ears upstanding from forward ends of the enclosures defining a spine-receiving aperture;
• and
• the free ends of said extension arms dimensioned for reception in the enclosures with the spines received in the ears so that the support arms receive cantilever support from the enclosure and the ears as the bucket is raised and lowered.

Apparatus for suspending of flexible cover a spaced distance from a front loader bucket of an earth-moving vehicle, comprising:

• a cross member having opposed free ends and an intermediate portion;
• a pair of spaced apart rearwardly extending extension arms joined at one end to the intermediate portion of the cross member and having second, opposed free ends;
• a lateral member extending between the extension arms adjacent the free ends thereof;
• upstanding reinforcing spines upwardly extending from the extension arms and having free ends spaced from the free ends of the extension arms;
• means for releasably supporting the flexible cover at a series of spaced locations along said cross member;
• a pair of spaced aprat generally parallel tubular enclosures for attachment to the bucket, having forward arm-receiving openings and spine-receiving slots in upper wall portions of the enclosure;
• a pair of generally tubular reinforcing enclosures mounted atop the arm-receiving enclosures and having slot means at a lower portion thereof communicating with the slot means of the arm-receiving enclosures so as to form a common spine-receiving passageway therewith;
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• the free ends of said extension arms dimensioned so that the spines thereof are received in the spine-receiving enclosures and the arms thereof are received in the arm-receiving enclosures so as to receive support therefrom as the bucket is raised and lowered.