Hand truck for moving 3 point hitch equipment
OwnerJames S. Simpsoninventor
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Abstract
A wheeled hand truck adapted to carry lightweight three-point tractor hitch equipment. The hand truck has a frame made from two vertical rails, a handle, and some transverse ribs. An axle and a pair of wheels serve as the pivot point of the frame when the device is lifting objects. An extensible, upper support arm has a near end that is pivotally mounted to an upper rib. The support arm pivots up and down along a vertical plane, and has an apertured far end for attaching to the upper point of a three-point hitch connection. The hand truck also has a pair of lower lift arms that pivot from side to side along a substantially horizontal plane so as to be adjustably connectable to the lower two points of a three-point hitch connection.
Claims3
A hand truck apparatus adapted for carrying an implement equipped with a three-point hitch, comprising:
- two substantially vertical, parallel rails, each of said rails having a top end, a bottom end, a forward side, and a back side;
- a handle connecting said rails at said top end;
- a two-wheeled axle attached to said rails proximate said bottom end;
- a plurality of ribs transverse to and connecting said rails, said plurality of ribs disposed in parallel succession between said bottom end and said top end;
- an elongated upper support arm having a tubular, internally threaded first section pivotally attached about a horizontal axis to one of said plurality of ribs, and having a second section including an externally threaded rod extendable from the first section and a ring at an end of the rod adapted for attachment to a center link of the three-point hitch;
- a pair of elongated lower lift arms, each of said lower lift arms having:
- a sleeve rotatably disposed about a vertical axis on the bottom end of said rails;
- an elongated, internally threaded tube extending transversely from said sleeve;
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- a threaded rod extensible from said internally threaded tube, the rod having a ring adapted for attachment to an end link of the three-point hitch;
- wherein said support arm is rotatable up to 180 degrees in a vertical plane extending from said forward side, and wherein said lift arms are rotatable up to 180 degrees in a substantially horizontal plane extending from said forward side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.