System for connecting implement to mobile machinery

Apparatus for connecting an implement to a three-point hitch of mobile machinery for controllable side-shifting movement of the connected implement, the three point hitch comprising an upper attachment point and two lower attachment points, the apparatus comprising:

• a) a first framework having a height, a length, and a depth, and comprising at least two parallel, vertically spaced apart, laterally extending rails, an upper cross beam, a lower cross beam, and at least two upwardly extending, laterally spaced apart studs attached to the cross beams and the rails, wherein the rails and the studs are coplanar in a first framework plane, the first framework plane extending along the height and the length of the first framework;
• b) three attachments attached to the first framework for attachment to the three-point hitch, the attachments comprising an upper attachment attached to the upper cross beam for attachment to the upper attachment point of the three-point hitch and two lower attachments attached to the lower cross beam for attachment to the lower attachment points of the three-point hitch;
• c) a slidable second framework comprising at least two upwardly extending, laterally spaced apart posts and at least two sleeves attached to the posts, the posts and the sleeves being coplanar in the first framework plane, and wherein each sleeve is a surrounding sleeve mounted around one of the rails so that the slidable second framework can slide laterally back and forth along the rails;
• d) three connectors supported by the slidable second framework for connecting the slidable second framework to the implement for movement of the implement by the mobile machinery and the slidable second framework;
• e) at least one driver connected to the first framework and connected to the slidable second framework for driving the slidable second framework laterally back and forth along the rails;
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• f) a guidance system for controlling the driver.

Apparatus for connecting an implement to a three-point hitch of mobile machinery for controllable side-shifting movement of the connected implement, the three point hitch comprising an upper attachment point and two lower attachment points, the apparatus comprising:

• a) a first framework having a height, a length, and a depth, and comprising at least two parallel, vertically spaced apart, laterally extending rails, an upper cross beam, a lower cross beam, and at least two upwardly extending, laterally spaced apart studs attached to the rails, wherein the rails are in a first framework plane, the first framework plane extending along the height and the length of the first framework;
• b) three attachments attached to the first framework for attachment to the three-point hitch, the attachments comprising an upper attachment attached to the upper cross beam for attachment to the upper attachment point of the three-point hitch and two lower attachments attached to the lower cross beam for attachment to the lower attachment points of the three-point hitch;
• c) a slidable second framework comprising at least two sleeves, the sleeves and the second framework being in the first framework plane, and wherein each sleeve is a surrounding sleeve mounted around one of the rails so that the slidable second framework can slide laterally back and forth along the rails;
• d) three connectors supported by the slidable second framework for connecting the slidable second framework to the implement for movement of the implement by the mobile machinery and the slidable second framework;
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• e) at least one driver connected to the first framework and connected to the slidable second framework for driving the slidable second framework laterally back and forth along the rails.