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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
May. 17, 1995
Samuel S Pratt, Bedford, PA (US);
Dan Shaffer, Duncansville, PA (US);
Tim A Davis, Berlin, PA (US);
Ashley Heiple, Alum Bank, PA (US);
Peter N Lalos, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Rockland, Inc., Bedford, PA (US);
Abstract
An assembly for coupling an implement to an operating arm of a machine generally consisting of a first coupling component fixedly mountable on the implement, having a plurality of sets of opposed abutment surfaces spaced circumferentially relative to a given axis thereof and disposed substantially radially relative to such axis, and an axially spaced abutment surface, and a second coupling component disposable in mating relation with the first coupling component, having apparatus for detachably connecting to the operating arm, at least one locking member displaceable between an extended position and an retracted position received between a selected set of the radially disposed, opposed abutment surfaces and the axially spaced abutment surface, when the components are disposed in mating relation, and apparatus for selectively displacing the locking member into the extended and retracted positions.