Fifth wheel trailer hitch apparatus

Details Fifth wheel trailer hitch apparatus Fifth wheel trailer hitch apparatus

1996-04-17

1998-08-04

Avila, Stephen

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Articulated vehicle

280433, B60F 310

Patent

active

057882576

ABSTRACT:
A fifth wheel trailer hitch adaptor apparatus including a fifth wheel device including a housing having a stem projecting therefrom for telescopical receipt in a rearwardly opening square tube of a towing vehicle and having a fifth wheel yoke plate formed with a rearwardly extending, open ended, laterally outwardly diverging passage. An adaptor plate is provided and includes on its top side an upstanding hitch ball for receipt in the ball socket of a trailer and has a king pin on the bottom side thereof for sliding receipt into the passage for hitching to such fifth wheel device.

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Reese Corp. Parts List on 350 Weight Distributing Hitch and Information regarding Reese Weight Distributing Hitches.
Catalog sheet showing various Reese hitches.
Catalog sheet regarding 35510-35600-35752 Universal Pick-Up Receivers.

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