Land vehicles – Wheeled – Articulated vehicle
Patent
1987-03-20
1988-07-26
Love, John J.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Articulated vehicle
280477, 280508, B62D 116
Patent
active
047595647
ABSTRACT:
An automatic trailer hitch assembly mounts a shank unit on the trailer and a receiving unit on the towing vehicle. The shank unit provides an elongated shank member which mounts the trailer ball at one end coupled to a conventional trailer hitch ball socket housing secured to the trailer and at the opposite end is formed to slide on funnel-like guide passages into the receiving unit. A spring leveler assembly is detachably and adjustably secured as a subassembly to the trailing end of the shank unit, releasably grasps the ball socket housing and retains the shank unit properly positioned for coupling.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2538372 (1951-01-01), Light
patent: 4560184 (1985-12-01), Williams
Love John J.
McGiehan Donn
Olive B. B.
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