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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2006
Bryan Kirk Buerkle, Waterloo, IA (US);
Michael Dean Kollath, Dunkerton, IA (US);
Bryan Kirk Buerkle, Waterloo, IA (US);
Michael Dean Kollath, Dunkerton, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A vehicle drawbar hammer strap assembly may be coupled to an implement tongue with a drawbar pin. A cross pin with a lever arm is operable to releasably hold the drawbar pin. A trigger is engagable with the tongue and the cross pin, and is pivotal from a latched position wherein it engages the cross pin and holds the cross pin in its locked position to an unlatched position wherein it is spaced apart from the cross pin. The tongue engages the trigger and pivot the trigger in an over-center manner from its latched to its unlatched position. The trigger includes a latch member attached to a wire form part which is pivotally coupled to the hammer strap. The latch member is engagable with the lever arm and with an end of the tongue.