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2. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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   Modern fifth wheels allow the trailers to slide into the fifth wheel and lock into it very reliably when maintained and serviced properly. The engagement of the king pin into the fifth-wheel locking mechanism is the only means of connection between tractor and trailer; no other device or safety mechanism is used.

3. Curtiss Aerocar - Wikipedia

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   Although the Curtiss Camp Car patent referred to a second forthcoming patent application for a Curtiss-designed fifth-wheel coupling, no such patent was submitted. Images of the Camp Car held in the archives of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum indicate that the fifth-wheel hitch used was the commercially available Martin Rocking Fifth Wheel.

4. Recreational vehicle terms - Wikipedia

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   Newer fifth-wheel hitches are pivoted in two dimensions to ease hitching up and to give the truck and trailer more freedom of movement together. Some models are called sliding-fifth-wheel hitches because the entire hitch assembly can be rolled from its forward towing position to a more rearward position for backing up and maneuvering in tight ...

5. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

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   Conventional style cab tractor A cab-over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms – see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a ...

6. List of recreational vehicles - Wikipedia

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   Fifth-wheel trailers have become increasingly popular since they first became commercially available in the late 1960s. For some pickup truck owners the downside of a fifth-wheel trailer versus a conventional frame-hitch-mount travel trailer is that the former takes up space inside the truck cargo bed.

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