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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1976
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Pierre J Leyrat, Trilport, FR;
Assignee:
Societe Anonyme: Poclain, Le-Plessis-Belleville, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
37 87 ; 37 90 ; 3719 / ; 371175 ;
Abstract
An excavator comprising a plurality of buckets mounted on an endless chain on a jib, and a bottomless scoop at the working end of the jib through which the buckets pass in use. The scoop is power operated to break up the soil being excavated, and as each bucket passes through the scoop it co-operates with the scoop to form a complete digging bucket.