Multipurpose bucket for heavy-duty construction equipment

Claim 1

A multipurpose bucket for loaders, being mounted on suitably actuated lift arms, abd neing tilted by pressure cylinders mounted to said arms and said bucket comprising: a bowl including a substantially U-shaped wall forming the lower ground-contacting side of said bucket and the rearward side of said bucket, and opposing sidewalls at each end of said bowl; a support means for accumulating and lifting, said support means being coextensive in width with and mounted for forward and rearward slideable movement in said bowl; and an actuator assembly including a selectively controllable pressure cylinder mounted to said bowl and a linkage means mounted to said cylinder and thRough said bowl to said support means, said linkage means is a bell crank upstandingly, pivotally mounted at its vertex to the rearwardmost terminal side of said rearward side portion of said U-shaped wall, said cylinder being mounted in alignment with said bell crank to said rearwardmost side of said U-shaped wall rearward side portion and having its piston portion pivotally fastened to one of the arm portions of said bell crank, the arm portion of said bell crank being pivotally secured to the rearwardmost end of said support means, said bell crank arm portion engaging said support means includes a slotted hole disposed rectilinearly in said arm portion engaging said support means in which a connector bar may travel.