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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1991
John Griffin, Monroe, NC (US);
Gill Industries, L.P., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
A conmbination scraper/loader for mounting on the three-point hitch of a tractor which includes a back wall having a forwardly facing scraper blade and a rearwardly facing scraper blade at its lower edge, and two side walls extending from the back wall in spaced parallel relation. A bottom wall is pivotally mounted to the side walls and is operable between a first position at which it closes the bottom face of the scraper/loader, and a second pivoted position at which it opens such bottom face to permit collected dirt to be dumped therefrom. The scraper/loader 10 has a forward set and a rearward set of pivot pins for connection to the tractor in two separate dispositions, and an operating lever for releasing the pivoted bottom wall is provided which can be reached by the operator of the tractor in either disposition of the scraper/loader 10 on the tractor. The pivoted bottom wall may also be entirely removed from the scraper/loader so that it can be used as a conventional box scraper.