Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Signs – Automotive vehicle carried
Patent
1994-12-27
1997-02-18
Green, Brian K.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Signs
Automotive vehicle carried
280507, B60D 700
Patent
active
056031785
ABSTRACT:
The ornamental cover is installed on a rectangular, tubular trailer hitch socket for substantially covering or concealing the otherwise undecorated opening of the hitch socket. The cover is configured to be quickly and easily installed over and partly within the opening of any standard frame-mounted hitch socket, thereby improving the aesthetic appeal of the rear of a vehicle so equipped.
In the preferred embodiment, the cover includes a plate that includes an outer surface bearing user-selected ornamentation and an insert extending from the center of the inner surface of the plate. The insert is dimensioned for insertion into a standard rectangular hitch socket. An ear extends from the insert and away from the plate for securing the cover partly within the socket. The ear is offset from the center of the insert so that when the cover is installed the ear extends substantially parallel to and adjacent an interior wall of the socket. The ear has a circular bore formed therein, into which an internally threaded nutsert is press fitted. The ornamental cover is firmly secured to the hitch socket by a round, Allen-headed fastener that extends through a hole in a wall of the hitch socket and threadedly engages the nutsert.
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Davis Cassandra
Green Brian K.
Motorsport Accessories, Inc.
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