Appeal No. 2000-1488 Page 7
Application No. 08/826,832
suitable receptacle in a desirable location for weights to
help maintain the rear end of the tractor on the ground
despite heavy front loads. A specific feature of the
attachment is that it may be added to an existing tractor,
already equipped with a drawbar or hitch panel at the ends of
the frame rails, without loss of the existing drawbar or hitch
plate
and without loss of the hitching feature.
Figure 3 of Eid is a perspective view of the attachment
and Figures 4 and 5 are views showing the attachment in place
between the frame rails and the drawbar or hitch plate. As
shown in Figures 3-5, the weight box attachment is a unitary,
preassembled, three-sided, closed-bottom, open-top,
heavy-gauge sheet metal box 40 adapted to be applied as an
attachment unit to the free ends of the rails 20, these rails
being normally connected by the hitch plate 22. The box 40
comprises a front plate 42, a bottom plate 44, and two side
plates 46. The latter extend well forward of the front plate
to provide short parallel wings 48 enabling the box to be
secured to the ends 20 of the rails by the same bolts 28 as
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