Abstract: A vehicle has front brackets which engage with a coupler which has an upright brace with two vertical members joined by a horizontal member. Fixed pins on the brace engage in the bracket slots and retractable spring-loaded pins on the brace engage with the holes on the bracket. A frame is pivotally mounted to the vertical members and is pivotable by an actuator which connects the brace and the frame. A support is pivotally mounted about an axis perpendicular to the frame and has an upturned flange adapted to engage beneath a downturned bracket on the implement and has pinholes located beneath the flange to receive pins extending from the implement. Fixed to the implement is a downturned J-shaped bracket with a vertical portion and a spaced opposed portion which is approximately as deep as the upward extension of the flange on the coupler. Vertical plates are connected on either side of the J-shaped bracket and are spaced to fit on either side of the support of the coupler.

Abstract: The power-take-off conversion unit of this invention is adapted for attachment to a vehicle with a driving pulley rotatable in a generally vertical plane and driving an elastic belt, wherein the vehicle has two mounting brackets located beneath the pulley. The unit has a frame with an arm that extends rearwardly from a rear portion of the frame. Two pins extending from the arm are adapted to engage within the mounting brackets on the vehicle to allow the frame to rotate about a horizontal axis. The frame has a planar locking surface extending therefrom and a cam surface which extends downwardly and outwardly from the locking surface. A driven pulley is rotatively mounted within the frame to engage with and be driven by the elastic belt of the vehicle. A belt-tensioning bar is rotatively mounted to the vehicle about a horizontal axis which is located above the locking surface of the frame.