Abstract: A transportable storage container assembly for transport by a tow vehicle. The assembly includes a trailer having a center rail with a two-point trailer hitch at the front end and a pivotable single wheel at the rear end. The trailer has a first cross channel adjacent the front end of the rail and a second cross channel adjacent the rear end of the rail. A storage container mounted on the trailer includes bottom support skids at each end that seat in the cross channels and are secured in the channels by casters that are attached to the skids through mounting holes in the cross channels. There is a jack on the bottom of the trailer rail adjacent the midpoint to facilitate the raising of the trailer for attachment to, and disattachment from, the tow vehicle trailer hitch.

Abstract: The tractor hitch guide is a modification of a three-point tractor hitch and of the corresponding pinning structures of the implement. The modified tractor hitch includes bushings located on the links of the two side arms, to extend the openings of the links in a direction coaxially outward with the openings. The modified pinning structures of the implement include a spring-loaded latching pin that automatically latches with the link when it is in its aligned position. Centering brackets are provided for horizontally aligning the links and a spring-loaded leveling plate is provided for vertical alignment, when the tractor is backed into the implement.

Abstract: A trailer system is provided in which the trailer system can include a frame having a front end, a rear end, opposing sides between the front end and the rear end and a hitching mechanism coupled to the front end of the frame. The trailer system can also include a wheel assembly coupled to the frame in which the wheel assembly contains at least two wheels and a stabilizing mechanism coupled to the frame and the wheel assembly. The trailer system can also include a plurality of wheel assemblies and stabilizing mechanisms. Further, the frame of the trailer system can have at least one first support member extending from the front end section to said rear end section and at least one second support member extending from said first support member towards one of said side sections. Each stabilizing mechanism can be coupled to the rear end, front end or one of the opposing sides of the frame. In addition, each stabilizing mechanism can be coupled to one of the first or second support members of the frame.

Abstract: A fifth wheel trailer hitch adaptor system for providing a safer and more stable way to tow a fifth wheel trailer. The fifth wheel trailer hitch adaptor system includes a vehicle. A receiver is secured to the vehicle. The receiver has an aperture extending through the receiver. A fifth wheel trailer hitch member has a base portion. A connection bar is secured to the base portion. The connection bar has a distal portion extending outwardly from the base portion. The distal portion is insertable through the aperture in the receiver. The distal portion has a hole extending through the distal portion. A pin member is couplable to the distal portion through the hole whereby the connection bar is secured to the receiver.

Abstract: A double-castered wheel trailer having a pair of lockable caster wheels. The lockable caster wheels are adapted to be locked for a trailing mode of operation and a backing mode of operation. The double-castered wheel trailer further includes a multi-planar adapting hitch-to-trailer coupler. The multi-planar adapting hitch-to-trailer includes a horizontal pivot member adapted to be secured to a pair of hitch balls and pivot in a horizontal plane about the towing vehicle. Further included is a vertical swivel member coupled to the horizontal pivot member and the trailer frame to independently rotate the trailer frame about said horizontal pivot member.

Abstract: A removable supplementary hitch pivots into operational position on a trailer tongue in concert with a primary trailer hitch of the dependent vehicle used in pulling the trailer. The secondary hitch includes at least one additional hitch between the trailing vehicle and the dependent vehicle. Another additional hitch is also commonly provided resulting in an additional hitch on either side of the primary hitch. To introduce a measure of tolerance to breaking the connection through unwanted turning of the power vehicle after the secondary hitch is attached between the vehicles, the connection between the bar and the channel may comprise a flexible spring connection that allows the bar to move off parallel to the channel in absorbing unwanted turning forces while biasing the bar to return to its parallel position.

Abstract: A transportable storage container assembly for transport by a tow vehicle. The assembly includes a trailer having a center rail with a two-point trailer hitch at the front end and a pivotable single wheel at the rear end. The trailer has a first cross channel adjacent the front end of the rail and a second cross channel adjacent the rear end of the rail. A storage container mounted on the trailer includes bottom support skids at each end that seat in the cross channels and are secured in the channels by casters that are attached to the skids through mounting holes in the cross channels. There is a jack on the bottom of the trailer rail adjacent the midpoint to facilitate the raising of the trailer for attachment to, and disattachment from, the tow vehicle trailer hitch.

Abstract: A hitch and trailer assembly includes a trailer having a mounting member and a hitch receiver mountable to a motor vehicle for receiving the mounting member. The hitch and trailer assembly also include a plurality of rollers for connection to one of the trailer and the motor vehicle and a plurality of bumpers for connection to the other one of the trailer and the motor vehicle to allow the rollers and the bumpers abut each other when the mounting member is disposed in the hitch receiver.

Abstract: An improved trailer dolly having a fifth wheel and also carrying a ball-type trailer hitch to give the driver the option of towing either type of trailer and having steering means built into the dolly to provide sure and positive steering and control of the towed trailer.

Abstract: A trailer safety chain assembly that is used in combination with a raised ball trailer hitch trailer coupling type of trailer attachment. The trailer safety chain is made up of two sets of chained strands that are linked between a center ring. The trailer safety chain is situated between a vehicle and trailer being transported and acts as an auxiliary trailer attachment in the event of trailer attachment failure. A mounting plate is provided on the vehicle, with a set of apertures provided that accommodate a set of inverted L-shaped hooks and a raised ball trailer hitch. The trailer safety chain is able to keep the end of a trailer tongue from touching the ground and can transport the trailer even in the event of complete trailer attachment failure.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a lateral position of a first member on a hitch of a work machine. A first processing device receives a first signal indicative of a desired turn radius of the work machine and transmits a first desired hitch position as a function of the first signal. A second processing device receives a second signal indicative of an actual hitch position and also receives the first desired hitch position. The second processing device transmits a first error as a function of the second signal and the desired hitch position. A controller receives the first error and transmits a second error as a function of the first error. A first member modulator receives the first error and transmits a first activation signal as a function of the second error. The first activation signal controls the lateral position of the first member.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a front, first and second opposite sides extending rearwardly from the front, first and second lower links extending forward the front and an upper link above and between the first and second lower links. The first and second lower links have first end portions pivotably supported about a first axis and second end portions configured for being coupled to an implement. The upper link includes a tongue and first and second arms extending from the tongue. The first and second arms are spaced apart from one another and receive the front and first and second sides of the vehicle therebetween. The first and second arms are pivotably coupled to the vehicle to pivotably support the tongue about an axis rearward of the front of the vehicle.