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Tractor-trailer Coupling Joint

23rd August 1963, Page 45
23rd August 1963
Page 45
Page 45, 23rd August 1963 — Tractor-trailer Coupling Joint
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PAA SIMPLE but effective method of allowing relative movement between a tractor and a trailer is shown in patent No. 910,660. (Robert Hudson Ltd., Raletrux House, Meadow Lane, Leeds, 11.) To the tractor axle (1) is clamped a bracket having a horizontal pivot-pin (2). This accommodates relative up-and-down movement of the tow-bar (3). The latter is attached to a pivot assembly (4) having freedom to turn about both horizontal and vertical axes; it forms in effect a universal joint. All this is attached to the trailer by a yoke (5).

Power braking and tipping of the trailer may be performed hydraulically; a fragment of piping for these purposes is shown at 6.