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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1975
Leon Paul Erdman, Beaver Dam, WI (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A lawn and garden tractor is provided with a pair of laterally spaced mounting brackets formed to define a pair of forwardly opening receptacles located at the underside of the tractor between front wheels of the latter. Connected between the brackets and a mower located beneath the tractor is a draft frame including a transverse rod having opposite end portions respectively received in the pair of receptacles and prevented from rotating therein by a pair of spring loaded pins projecting through respective pairs of aligned apertures located in the pair of brackets and in a pair of circular plates fixed to the rod. A lever is fixed to one end of the rod to rotate the latter so as to properly dispose the circular plate for the insertion of the pins during attachment of the mower. The draft frame also includes a pair of draft arms respectively pivotally connected between the pair of plates and the mower.