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AssigneeClark Equipment Company
InventorsCharles E. Deyo, Daniel T. Antrim, Jonathan C. Hollingsworth, Patrick K. Kuhn, Deborah N. Walock, Kenneth R. Weber, James W. Wolsky
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A bucket for a front end loader is formed with a minimum number of parts so that it can easily be assembled held in fixtures and welded with robot welders. The bucket includes a unitary panel that forms a bottom wall and a rear wall, with a curved junction wall between the bottom and rear walls. An integral top rail is formed at the upper edge of the rear wall for structural integrity. The formed top rail is made with a sloped top rail wall to increase the visibility of a load in the bucket to an operator in a cab of a skid steer loader. The bucket walls and parts which weld thereon have locating tabs and mating edges for locating the parts automatically, so that they can be welded into position. The bucket is made with brackets for mounting it onto a quick attachment plate of a skid steer loader.
A loader bucket having a continuous main bucket panel forming a bottom wall, and a rear wall, with an integral curved junction wall between the bottom wall and the rear wall, and an integrally formed top rail having a rounded corner forming an upper edge of the rear wall, a downwardly sloping, forwardly extending top wall, a front wall joining the forwardly and downwardly sloping top wall and extending substantially parallel to the rear wall, and an integral lower wall substantially perpendicular to the rear wall and extending to the rear wall.
A welded construction loader bucket providing accessible edges for welding comprising a continuous main panel forming a bottom wall, a rear wall, and an integrally curved junction wall between the bottom wall and the rear wall, the bottom and rear walls defining a bucket with a forward edge and a top edge, a pair of end walls welded to ends of the main panel, a top rail, integrally formed from the main panel at the top edge of the rear wall, the top rail having a downwardly sloping, forwardly extending rail top wall, a forward rail wall joining the forwardly and downwardly sloping rail top wall and extending substantially parallel to the rear wall, and an integral bottom rail wall substantially perpendicular to the rear wall having an edge welded to such rear wall, the edge of the bottom rail wall providing an edge for welding accessible for a robot welding head.
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