Coupling arrangement intended for mounting on a towing vehicle provided
with parallel frame side members and for coupling the towing vehicle detachably
to a towed vehicle such as a trailer. The arrangement incorporates a fifth wheel
which is tiltably connected to the frame side members by tilt pivot mountings in
the regions of the frame side members. Each tilt pivot mounting incorporates a
vertically upright support device made integrally and intended to be fastened directly
by means of a lower fastening portion to the outside of a vertical web portion
of the respective adjacent frame side member. The support device has in its upper
end a bearing sleeve in which a hingepin mounted on the underside of the fifth
wheel is supported. Each support device incorporates at least two supporting legs
which extend between and converge from the fastening portion to the bearing sleeve
and a central support leg between the fastening portion and the bearing sleeve.