Excavating – Ditch filler
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-17
2007-04-17
Beach, Thomas A (Department: 3671)
Excavating
Ditch filler
C037S379000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11006234
ABSTRACT:
A sizing bucket for use in excavation and particularly trench padding. Embodiments of the invention include an angled sizing member extending between a base plate and a back plate of the sizing bucket. An aperture extends through the base plate beneath the sizing member. The bucket further includes an extended scoop portion to assist in transporting material to be sized and a pre-sized material portion behind the sizing member for transporting pre-sized material. A particular embodiment of the invention includes a sizing member with graded mesh sizes. The sizing bucket of embodiments of the invention allow an excavator operator to lower and tie-in pipe in a trench, transport material to the trench, size the material, pad the trench, backfill the trench and clean-up the area around the trench without the need to change buckets or excavating equipment.
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Beach Thomas A
Schmeiser Olsen & Watts LLP
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