The fifth-wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. The coupling consists of...

feet as are used under a fifth wheel skid plate. The towing vehicle has a wide coupling plate known as a fifth-wheel coupling bolted onto its chassis,...

car or other vehicle. The term is also used to refer to part of a fifth wheel coupling apparatus for a semi and its trailer or other load. Originally, with...

sized rigid truck. The most common trailer attachment system is a fifth-wheel coupling, allowing a rapid shift between trailers performing different functions...

agriculture tires, bigger suspensions, drawbar coupling, tow hitch, three point hitch and fifth wheel coupling. With growing farm land size, operators and...

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medium duty truck equipped with a special in-box hitch called a fifth wheel coupling. Part of the trailer body extends over the truck bed, shortening...

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flatbed. A fifth-wheel coupling is also referred to as a kingpin hitch and is a smaller version of the semi-trailer "fifth wheel". Though a fifth wheel and a...

Look up fifth wheel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fifth wheel is a coupling that provides a link between the trailer and a truck (or a tractor...

could be hauled on roads by a tractor unit and then by way of a fifth wheel coupling, operate in a unit train on railway lines. The RoadRailer system...

lead trailer with a towing hitch such as a Ringfeder coupling affixed to it at the rear. A fifth wheel dolly is then affixed to the hitch allowing another...

These may be joined by a chain, rope, bar, hitch, three-point, fifth wheel, coupling, drawbar, integrated platform, or other means of keeping the objects...

part) – Main pivot in a vehicle's steering mechanism, or part of the fifth wheel coupling for a semi truck R-clip – Type of fastener made of a springy material...

used. This has one or two axles, a fifth-wheel coupling for the rear trailer, and a tongue with a ring-hitch coupling for the forward trailer. Individual...

most commercial car carrier trailers attach to the tractor using a fifth wheel coupling. Trailers can either be enclosed, possessing walls like a conventional...

drawbar that attaches to the fifth wheel coupling on the rear of a prime mover to distribute the mass on the fifth wheel on the dolly between the prime mover...

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rear chassis of the tractor instead of the fifth wheel coupling. Earlier heavy haulers unmounted the fifth wheel and used merely a piece or two of heavy...

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campervans, coaches, caravans (also known as travel trailers and campers), fifth-wheel trailers, popup campers, and truck campers. Typical amenities of an RV...

engine, or electric motor usually with an automatic transmission. A fifth-wheel coupling with an integrated lifting mechanism allows the semi-trailer's legs...

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gearbox utilizes a computer together with a load-sensing system on the fifth-wheel coupling to estimate the proper gear that the truck must be in. For example...

over a significant distance, and is connected to the trailer with a fifth wheel coupling. In England, this type of "tractor" is often called an "artic cab"...

shrouds a tire from view and similarly serves to deflect road spray. fifth-wheel coupling firing order The numbered sequence in which the cylinders of a multi-cylinder...

Stanford University student named Nathaniel Baldwin. 1911 Fifth wheel coupling The fifth wheel coupling provides a pivoting link between a semi-trailer and...

with hydraulic dump trailers, bulk tanker trailers, and automatic fifth-wheel couplings among their more than one thousand patents, including the shipping...

States Army Air Force (USAAF), several MT-Tug units were built with a fifth-wheel coupling on the cargo floor, for various Fruehauf trailers, and loaded with...

device was a crane, which clipped on to an articulated tractor unit's fifth wheel coupling. Popular in the seventies and eighties, they were cheap to buy (compared...