Patent ID: 6910545

Claim:
For a tractor equipped with a loader bucket, a hinge assembly for hinging a tractor hood on a tractor body so as to enable the hood to open upwardly and backwardly from the front end of the tractor, the hinge assembly comprising a double-rocker, four-link mechanism, including a hood-mounted bracket comprising one link, the hood-mounted bracket being mounted to an underside of the tractor hood, near a back end of the tractor hood; wherein the double-rocker, four-link mechanism includes a lower, fixed link having a first end and a second end, an upper, coupler link being said one link of the hood-mounted bracket and having a first end and a second end, a front rocker link and a back rocker link, said front rocker link having a lower end connected pivotally to said first end of the fixed link and an upper end connected pivotally to said first end of the coupler link, said back rocker link having a lower end connected pivotally to said second end of the fixed link and an upper end connected pivotally to said second end of the coupler link; wherein the front, back, and coupler links are displaceable so that the upper end of the back link is movable toward and away from the lower end of the front link, between positions on opposite sides of a line drawn from the lower end of the back link to the first end of the coupler link.