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Ford New Holland, Inc.

John L Lee

Donald L Sheesley

Edgar M Payne

An adaptor mechanism for use with a skid steer loader having an implement mounting plate configured in a first attachment configuration is disclosed wherein the adaptor mechanism permits the attachment of an implement configured in a second implement attachment configuration to the skid steer loader. The adaptor mechanism includes a movable locking mechanism having hook members protruding perpendicularly therefrom for engagement with the overcenter wedging mechanism in the implement mounting apparatus on the skid steer loader. A spring biases a locking mechanism toward a retracted position; however, engagement of the hook members by the skid steer loader overcenter wedging mechanism overcomes the biasing force exerted by the spring to force the locking mechanism into engagement with the implement being mounted thereto.

Skid steer loader adaptor

The invention relates to improvements to the starter flails and chain flails of a flail-type material spreader for making these flails more efficient particularly for spreading liquid or semi-liquid material. According to the invention the flails have cupped flail heads, respectively cupped starter elements on the starter flails for more aggressively attacking material reposing in the tank and for more efficiently ejecting said material through the discharge opening. According to another aspect, starter segments have been affixed to the starter impactors at an aggressive angle relative to the elongated axis of said impactors.

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Reamstown, PA, United States of America

John L Lee