Motorgrader implement mounting arrangement
AssigneeCaterpillar Tractor Co.
InventorGene B. Easterling
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An implement mounting arrangement is disclosed which is operatively associated with a longitudinally oriented main frame of a vehicle such as a motor grader. The implement mounting arrangement includes a base frame assembly having an inner end and an outer end and universally secured at its inner end to the main frame, a pair of actuators interconnected between the main frame and the outer end of the base frame assembly for suspended raising, lowering and tilting thereof, an implement support assembly hingedly mounted on the outer end of the base frame assembly, and a pair of actuators interconnected between the base frame assembly and the implement support assembly for angling it relative to the direction of travel of the vehicle.
Claims8
An implement mounting arrangement, operatively associated with a longitudinally oriented main frame of a vehicle, comprising:
- a base frame assembly having an inner end and an outer end and being universally secured at said inner end to said main frame;
- first actuator means interconnected between said main frame and said outer end of said base frame assembly for suspended raising, lowering and tilting thereof;
- an implement support assembly hingedly mounted on said outer end of said base frame assembly;
- angling means interconnected between said base frame assembly and said implement support assembly for angling it relative to the direction of travel of the vehicle;
- and
- second actuator means interconnected between said main frame and said outer end of said base frame assembly for stabilizing and side shifting said base frame assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.