Apparatus facilitating connection of trailer implement to tractor three-point hitch system
OwnerWilliam Wardinventor
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Abstract
Presented is an apparatus that includes a unitary frame configured to present three mounting portions spacially separated from one another in a triangular pattern and lying in a common plane to be pivotally connected to and supported by the hitch members of a three-point hitch system mounted on the rear of a tractor and actuable hydraulically to alter the elevation of the three-point hitch system and therefore the unitary frame of the apparatus. The apparatus facilitates connecting different types of agricultural and other trailer-type implements to the tractor and for selectively varying the size of the apparatus to accommodate three-point hitch systems of different sizes.
Claims12
Apparatus facilitating connection of a three-point hitch system adjustably mounted on a tractor to an implement adapted to trail the tractor, said apparatus comprising:
- a) unitary frame means configured to present three mounting portions spacially separated from one another in generally an isosceles triangular pattern and lying in a common plane;
- b) connection means mounted on each said mounting portion of said unitary frame means and lying in said common plane for selective pivotal connection to said three-point hitch system for complementary adjustment of said unitary frame means corresponding to the adjustment of said three-point hitch system in relation to said tractor;
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- c) means mounted on said unitary frame means spaced rearwardly from said common plane and generally coincident with a plane perpendicular to said common plane and including two of said spacially separated mounting portions for operatively engaging said implement to be trailed behind said tractor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.