Loader device for a tractor

In combination,

• a tractor having rearward and forward ends and opposite sides, a substantially horizontally disposed tubular member operatively secured to said tractor and extending laterally from each side of the tractor adjacent the forward end thereof,
• connector means secured to said tractor at each side thereof rearwardly of the forward end thereof,
• a loader device comprising a sub-frame means having spaced-apart and longitudinally extending side frame members having rearward and forward ends;
• a tower member operatively secured to each of said side frame members and extending upwardly therefrom;
• a boom means having rearward and forward ends and being pivotally secured at its rearward end to said tower members and being adapted to have a material handling implement connected to the forward end thereof;
• each of said side frame members having a forwardly extending slot formed therein having an open rearward end adapted to receive the laterally extending tubular members therein at times;
• said side frame members beng operatively connected to said connector means, a lock means pivotally secured to each of said side frame members and having first and second ends;
• each of said lock means being pivotally movable between first and second positions;
• said lock means, when in its first position, having one end thereof positioned rearwardly of the tubular member received in said slot so as to maintain said side frame member on said tubular member;
• each of said lock means being pivotally movable to said second position wherein the other end of said lock means is in communication with said slot spaced rearwardly from said tubular member so that said tubular member may move rearwardly in said slot to enable the loader device to be removed from the tractor and wherein the said rearward movement of said tubular member will cause said lock means to pivotally move from its said second position to its said first position for facilitating subsequent re-mounting of the loader on the tractor.