Land vehicles – Wheeled – Articulated vehicle
Patent
1979-02-12
1980-02-05
Bertsch, Richard A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Articulated vehicle
B60D 106
Patent
active
041869400
ABSTRACT:
This invention is designed to lock a trailer coupling, which includes a trailer hitch of the lever type and a ball-type connector. The coupling is locked by a locking-ball which is constructed by modifying a conventional ball to conceal the locking element, and how it provides the locking function. The locking-ball includes a substantially spherical ball in which a hardened steel bolt is threadedly disposed axially therewithin for vertical axial movement of the bolt through the upper surface of the locking-ball. The locking-ball is inserted in the socket of the trailer hitch, and the lever is closed in the "down" position so as to actuate a cam against a jaw, which jaw in cooperation with the socket, snugly holds the ball in position. The bolt is then advanced vertically by a key in mating relation with the lower end or head of the bolt, until the upper end of the bolt is forced against the inner surface of the socket, and the ball is forcibly biased within the socket against the jaw. When the ball is forcibly thus biased, it is held immovably in the socket, the lever cannot be raised, and the trailer hitch cannot be opened to permit the insertion of another ball.
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Bertsch Richard A.
Lobo Alfred D.
Schrecengost Randall A.
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