AGRICULTURAL MANIPULATOR Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: handling equipment employed in agriculture. SUBSTANCE: manipulator has flat base 1 with outer supports 2 and eyelets with fingers for joining to tie-rods of hydraulic suspender for tractor 13, rotary supporting column 3 with pivotally joined boom and load lifting mechanism and boom positioning cylinders arranged in pairs. Mutually connectable hollow fingers of smaller and larger diameters are inserted and fixed in E-shaped eyelets, which are positioned in reference points of flat base. Fingers may be readily removed from eyelets. Each pair of fingers is provided with device for retaining them in predetermined relative position. This device has pair of diametrically oriented pins arranged in inner cavity of finger having larger diameter and U-shaped bayonet slots formed in outer surface of inlet end of finger having smaller diameter. EFFECT: simplified construction and reduced costs of handling operations. 3 cl, 6 dwg