Automatic hitch assembly

Details Automatic hitch assembly Automatic hitch assembly

1992-01-06

1993-11-16

Mitchell, David M.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Articulated vehicle

280508, B60D 126

Patent

active

052616878

ABSTRACT:
An automatic hitch assembly for raising, positioning and coupling a tongue portion of a trailing vehicle to a drawbar portion of a pulling vehicle allowing for automatic coupling of the trailing vehicle with respect to the pulling vehicle while the driver remains in the pulling vehicle. A V-shaped guide member on the drawbar portion of the pulling vehicle is pivotal from an uncoupled substantially horizontal orientation, for receiving an elongated probe member on the tongue portion of the trailing vehicle during raising and positioning of the trailer vehicle, to a coupled substantially vertical orientation in which the V-shaped guide member is free from contact from the elongated probe member.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2481461 (1949-09-01), Wolfrum
patent: 2904348 (1959-09-01), Quastad
patent: 3325186 (1967-06-01), Lund
patent: 3421780 (1969-01-01), Rimmey
patent: 3565459 (1971-02-01), Reid
patent: 4451066 (1984-05-01), Collins
patent: 4482166 (1984-11-01), Van Antwerp

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