Bucket (machine part)

July 10th, 2008

A bucket (also called a scoop to qualify shallower designs of tools) is a specialized container attached to a machine, to the difference of a domesic bucket adapted to the physionomy of a human being. It is a bulk material handling component.

The bucket has an inner volume to the difference of other types of machine attachments like blades or shovels.

The bucket could be attached to the lifting hook of a crane, at the end of the arm of an excavating machine, to a the wires of a dragline excavator, to the arms of a power shovel or a tractor equipped with a backhoe loader or to a loader, or to a dredge.

The name bucket can have been coined from buckets used in water wheels, then in used in water turbines or in similar-looking devices.

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