Land vehicles – Wheeled – Articulated vehicle
Patent
1995-02-17
1996-05-14
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Articulated vehicle
280507, B60D 112
Patent
active
055161391
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a guide assembly for use in attaching a towed vehicle having a forwardly extending tongue with a socket on its inner end to a ball mounted on the bumper of a towing vehicle to fit the socket, including a housing having bottom, side and end walls, with the bottom wall fixedly mounted on the ball mounting for rotation about it, and springs which act between the ball mounting and the housing to yieldably urge the housing in opposite rotational directions about the vertical axis of the ball prior to as well as following attachment.
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Eickenroht Marvin B.
Focarino Margaret A.
Thompson Jennings B.
Vaden III Frank S.
Zeender F.
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