Hitch mount

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1994-09-27

1996-02-06

Focarino, Margaret A.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Articulated vehicle

280500, 280505, 280510, 280514, 280769, 224282, B60R 906, B60R 104

Patent

active

054891124

ABSTRACT:
A support mounting unit is provided for mounting a transportable cart or like apparatus to a vehicle so as to provide an easy method of transport for an apparatus. The mounting unit includes a mounting means for securing the invention to the rear bumper of a vehicle, a top and bottom clamping jaw for securing the cart to the mounting unit, and an automatic locking mechanism. The top jaw of the invention is attached to a main body portion by means of hinges on each side of the body portion. The top jaw can then be moved from a nominally horizontal closed position to an angled upwardly open position. Thus, once a lower attachment bar secured to the transportable apparatus has been placed in the lower U-shaped bracket, the apparatus is rotated and the upper attachment bar pushes the top jaw into the open position. The attachment bar can now be secured in the U-shaped bracket embedded in top jaw, and the top jaw can return to a closed position where the locking bolt automatically secures it.

REFERENCES:
patent: 831977 (1906-09-01), Nilsen
patent: 1447146 (1923-02-01), Novak
patent: 2248005 (1941-07-01), Lyman
patent: 2869654 (1959-01-01), Hershman
patent: 3098309 (1963-07-01), Koch
patent: 4340240 (1982-07-01), Anderson
patent: 4906039 (1990-03-01), Broman
patent: 4962945 (1990-10-01), Vannoy et al.

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