Land vehicles – Wheeled – Articulated vehicle
Patent
1999-04-15
2000-10-31
DePumpo, Daniel G.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Articulated vehicle
33264, B60D 140
Patent
active
061390410
ABSTRACT:
A trailer hitching alignment aid for helping a driver of a vehicle properly align the vehicle's hitch with the trailer tongue of the trailer. The trailer hitching alignment aid includes a vehicle mounted assembly designed for mounting to a vehicle above a ball hitch of the vehicle and a trailer mounted assembly designed for mounting to a trailer tongue of a trailer. The vehicle mounted assembly comprises a main member and an elongate end member coupled to the main member. The end member is designed for coupling to the vehicle such that the main member is positioned above the ball hitch of the vehicle. An elongate first guide rod is upwardly extended the main member. The trailer mounted assembly comprises an upper member and a lower member having a top portion coupled to a lower end of the upper member. An upwardly facing trailer magnet is coupled to a bottom portion of the lower member. A center extent upwardly extends from a center region of the trailer magnet. The center extent is designed for insertion into the receiving socket of the trailer tongue of the trailer so that the trailer magnet may magnetically couple the bottom portion of the lower member to the trailer tongue of the trailer. An elongate second guide rod is upwardly extended from the upper end of the upper member. A light source is coupled to an upper end of the second guide rod. A switch is electrically connected to the light source and has an elongate actuator downwardly extending from the bottom portion of the lower member. The longitudinal axis of the second guide rod and the actuator of the switch are coaxially aligned with one another.
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