Hitch facilitating means for a planter or the like

Claim 1

AN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT ADAPTED NORMALLY TO BE HITCHED TO A TRACTOR HAVING A DRAWBAR AND POWER MEANS INCLUDING A REMOTE CYLINDER ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED ON AN IMPLEMENT AND DERIVING OPERATING ENERGY FROM SAID TRACTOR POWER MEANS, SAID IMPLEMENT COMPRISING A FRAME INCLUDING A MAIN FRAME PORTION AND A FORWARDLY EXTENDING HITCH FRAME PORTION, A CLEVIS ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED WITH THE TRACTOR DRAWBAR AND PIVOTED TO THE FORWARD END OF THE HITCH FRAME PORTION FOR MOVEMENT RELATIVE THERETO ABOUT A TRANSVERSE AXIS SO AS TO ACCOMMODATE UP AND DOWN SWINGING OF THE IMPLEMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRACTOR IN NORMAL OPERATION, SAID CLEVIS HAVING SURFACES DISPOSED ABOVE AND BELOW THE TRANSVERSE AXIS, A WHEEL CARRIER MOUNTED ON THE IMPLEMENT FRAME AND HAVING GROUND WHEELS SHIFTABLE GENERALLY VERTICALLY RELATIVE TO THE IMPLEMENT FRAME FOR RAISING AND LOWERING THE LATTER, A GENERALLY VERTICALLY RETRACTABLE STAND CARRIED BY THE IMPLEMENT FRAME FORWARDLY OF SAID WHEEL CARRIER AND DISPOSED REARWARDLY OF SAID CLEVIS, MEANS DETACHABLY CONNECTING SAID REMOTE CYLINDER TO SAID IMPLEMENT FRAME TO ACT BETWEEN SAID WHEEL CARRIER SO AS TO SHIFT THE IMPLEMENT ABOUT SAID STAND AS A FULCRUM AND THUS RAISE AND LOWER THE FRONT END OF THE HITCH FRAME TO BRING THE CLEVIS TO SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME LEVEL AS THE TRACTOR DRAWBAR, TO THEREBY FACILITATE CONNECTING THE LATTER AND SAID CLEVIS, MEANS ADAPTED TO TEMPORARILY ABUTTINGLY ENGAGE ONE OF THE SURFACES OF THE CLEVIS AND THE HITCH FRAME PORTION TO HOLD THE CLEVIS AGAINST SHIFTING ABOUT SAID TRANSVERSE AXIS TO FACILITATE MANEUVERING THE CLEVIS AND DRAWBAR, ONE RELATIVE TO THE OTHER, TO FACILITATE HITCHING THE CLEVIS TO THE TRACTOR DRAWBAR SAID ENGAGING MEANS INCLUDING A PIN, AND SAID PIN BEING INSERTIBLE IN THE FORWARD POSITION OF SAID CLEVIS AND THE TRACTOR DRAWBAR FOR COMPLETING THE CONNECTION OF THE IMPLEMENT TO THE TRACTOR.