Loader support stand
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsCharles H. Kaufman, Daniel G. McCombs, John R. McMillan
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Abstract
A parking stand for an agricultural loader particularly well suited for use with tractors having mid-mounted mowers or similar tools carried beneath the tractor. The stand includes a pair of legs for each mast, the legs being adapted to fold between a stored position adjacent the mast and a supporting position extending laterally from the mast.
Claims6
In a power loader adapted to be removably mounted on a vehicle such as a tractor, said vehicle having loader support means carried on each side thereof, the improvement residing in a loader support stand carried by the mast of the loader and foldable between a first stored position adjacent the mast and a second operative position extending from and below the mast to support the mast above the ground when the loader is removed from the vehicle, the improved stand comprising:
- a first leg pivotally coupled with the loader mast;
- a second leg pivotally coupled to one end of the first leg;
- latch means between the first leg and mast for securing the first leg in a first position adjacent to the mast or alternatively a second position extending laterally from the mast;
- stop means carried adjacent to the pivotal connection between the first and second legs,
- effective to limit pivotal movement of the second leg relative to the first leg so that when the first leg is in its second position, the second leg projects generally vertically, and
- when the first leg is in its first position, the second leg may be moved to a folded position alongside the first leg.
Mast support means for an agricultural loader having at least one mast adapted to, rest upon a laterally extending support carried by a vehicle, said means comprising:
- fore-and-aft extending pivot structure carried by the mast;
- an arm swingably mounted at an intermediate portion by the pivot structure;
- leg structure pivotally connected to one end of the arm;
- stop means between the leg structure and one end of the arm wherein swinging pivotal movement is permitted between the structure and arm and between the arm and the mast between a first folded position adjacent the mast and a second unfolded position where the arm extends outwardly from the mast and the leg structure extends downwardly from the arm and whereby the stop means limits the pivoting of the leg structure in the unfolded position so that the leg structure extends downwardly from the arm;
- latch means between the mast and arm for securing the arm in either its folded or unfolded position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.