Trailer coupling guide

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1991-01-29

1992-05-19

Hill, Mitchell J.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Articulated vehicle

280511, B60D 106

Patent

active

051141701

ABSTRACT:
A device that facilitates the coupling of a trailer to a vehicle that tows the trailer. The device enables a single unaided individual to back a vehicle equipped with a hitch device of the type having a hitch ball into a trailer tongue coupling of the type having a socket that receives the hitch ball. The bottom of an angled deflection plate that is wide at its leading end and narrow at its trailing end drives the hitch ball downwardly, compressing the vehicle's springs, as the vehicle backs up. Guide members that depend from opposite edges of the deflection plate converge toward one another and constrain the hitch ball to enter into an opening formed in the device that is in registration with the socket. The vehicle's springs then urge the hitch ball upwardly so that the ball extends through the opening and into the socket.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4254968 (1981-03-01), DelVecchio
patent: 4903978 (1990-02-01), Schrum, III

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