Grapple assembly with individually mounted spring loaded teeth

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Conventional grappler assemblies for use with bulldozer blades, front end loader buckets and the like are either fixed immovably to the blade or bucket or they all move as one unit so that difficulty is encountered when an irregularly shaped load is grasped between the teeth and blade or bucket. The present device includes a plurality of individually mounted, spring-loaded teeth on a pivotal cross bar controlled hydraulically for rotation so that if a rock or root is engaged by one or more of the teeth during use, these teeth will yield individually due to the individual pivotal spring mounting of such teeth. When an irregularly shaped object such as a rock is grasped for picking up …