Alignment guide assembly for trailer hitches

Details Alignment guide assembly for trailer hitches Alignment guide assembly for trailer hitches

1996-01-11

1998-06-23

Johnson, Brian L.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Articulated vehicle

280511, B60D 106

Patent

active

057694435

ABSTRACT:
The alignment guide assembly includes an alignment guide that is movable between an operative and an inoperative position on the tongue of a trailer without removing any of its parts. The alignment guide assembly also includes a stop bracket on the trailer hitch of a tow vehicle, and in its operative position, the alignment guide is capable of longitudinally aligning a hitch ball on the tow vehicle with a socket on the tongue of the trailer, of locating the hitch ball in vertical alignment with the socket, and of stopping downward movement of the trailer tongue when the socket is in position to be locked to the hitch ball.

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