Hitch

Claim 1

An improved hitch for coupling a towable vehicle with a towing vehicle comprising: A. a hitch-pin receiver including a pair of horizontally oriented plates disposed in mutually spaced parallelism, each of said plates being provided with a pair of converging surfaces defining a horizontally extended throat for receiving a hitch pin; B. a latching pawl comprising a substantially disk-shaped plate interposed between said horizontally oriented plates including a pair of surfaces defining therefor a peripheral fluke, means supporting said latching pawl for oscillatory motion including a bearing pin extended through said pair of horizontally oriented plates in abaxial alignment with said throat, tension means connected with said pawl for continuously urging said pawl in displacement toward a first position wherein the fluke is In juxtaposition with said throat and one surface of said pair of surfaces defining said fluke is disposed substantially transversely of said throat in a position to be engaged by a hitch pin as the hitch pin is inserted into said throat for displacing said pawl to a second position wherein the fluke is disposed transversely of said throat for capturing said hitch pin; C. a pawl retainer for securing said pawl against angular displacement, including a spring-biased locking pin supported for extension through at least one of said horizontally oriented plates and said pawl; D. release means for extracting said lockiing pin from said pawl comprising a bellcrank having one arm therof connected with said spring-biased locking pin and the opposite arm thereof connected with a manually operable linkage; and E. means for connecting said hitch with a three-point hitch assembly of a tractor.