Frame for mounting on a boom mounted quick change bracket
AssigneeClark Equipment Company
InventorsWally L. Kaczmarski, Thomas M. Sagaser, Craig A. Berard, Henry J. Weber, Jason J. Asche
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Abstract
A quick attach accessory tool mounting frame is adapted to be mounted onto a quick attachment bracket and held in place. The adapter frame has spaced side plates that slide over a bracket and with a linear movement can be held in place on the bracket. The frame has an adapter plate that can be used with brackets to mount on a wide variety of auxiliary tools used with a backhoe or excavator.
Claims24
A frame for attachment to an attachment bracket on an implement arm, said frame including a pair of frame side plates and a cross plate joining said side plates and holding said side plates in spaced relationship, said side plates extending outwardly from the cross plate, said cross plate having a rim along one edge for fitting into a saddle of the bracket, said frame having walls forming a retainer slot at an end of the frame opposite from the rim, said walls being of size to receive an end portion of the bracket having the saddle when the rim is retained in the saddle the walls forming the slot restraining movement of the end portion of the bracket away from the cross plate.
A frame for attachment to a quick attachment bracket on an implement arm, said frame including a pair of frame side plates and a cross plate having a plane, and holding said side plates in spaced relationship, said side plates extending outwardly from the cross plate and extending from a first end to a second end of the cross plate, said cross plate having a rim with at least a base wall extending laterally in a first direction from the plane of the cross plate at the first end, said frame having walls forming a retainer slot between the side plates at the second end of the cross plate, said slot having an open end between the cross plates facing toward the rim and on an opposite side of the cross plate from the base wall of the rim.
A method of adapting a mounting frame for an attachment bracket to be used with a plurality of different tools comprising the steps of providing a mounting frame having a plate, the plate having a center plane, providing two spaced retainers supported on the plate for mounting to the bracket, with the spaced retainer on opposite sides of the plane of the plate, and providing adapter supports for selected tools secured to the plate at portions separated from the spaced retainers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.