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 Title: |
US5236215:
Trailer hitch coupling guide
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Wylie, Thomas S.; Holliday, TX 76366
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1993-08-17
/ 1992-07-17
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| Application Number: |
US1992000914316
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
B60D 1/36;
Core:
B60D 1/00;
IPC-7:
B60D 1/36;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
280/477;
280/507;
280/508;
Original:
280/477;
280/508;
280/507;
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| Field of Search: |
280/477,508,511,479.2,479.3,507
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| Priority Number: |
| 1992-07-17 |
US1992000914316 |
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| Abstract: |
A device for assisting in the alignment of the coupling socket of a trailer with the ball of a bumper trailer hitch utilizes paired horizontally disposed elongated bars having a parallel region and rearwardly directed funnel-shaped divergent portion. An upwardly directed guidepost is positioned upon the trailer above the socket. The bars are supported by downwardly directed posts in a manner to permit their removability when not in use or storage in a configuration closely adjacent the bumper.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Rainer, Norman B. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Focarino, Margaret A.; Mattix, Carla
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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Having thus described my invention, what is claimed is:
1. A trailer hitching guide adapted for use with a vehicle having a standard rear step-bumper and draw bar trailer hitch, said step bumper having a recessed hitching region bounded in part by a horizontally disposed flat surface having a central hitching aperture, said draw bar extending rearwardly from and below said bumper along the longitudinal axis of said vehicle and terminating in a rear extremity having an upwardly directed, substantially spherical hitch ball adapted to couple to a standard trailer tongue receiving socket, said hitching guide comprised of:
- a) a mounting plate configured to be affixed upon said flat surface, said plate having attachment means to permit securement to said flat surface, and paired mounting tubes upwardly emergent from said mounting plate in equally spaced opposition about said longitudinal axis,
- b) a mounting yoke configured to embrace said draw bar and having paired vertically disposed first securing bores disposed in rectangular array with said mounting tubes,
- c) paired horizontally disposed elongated guide bars having paired parallel portions terminating in forward and rearward extremities, rearwardly directed paired divergent portions emergent from said rearward extremities, downwardly directed forward mounting posts associated with said forward extremities and adapted to reside within said mounting tubes, and rear mounting posts downwardly directed from said parallel portions and adapted to reside within said first securing bores, and
- d) a vertical guide post configured to be vertically mounted above said receiving socket and adapted to slide between said guide bars, whereby,
- when said vehicle is backed-up, said guide post is engaged between said divergent portions and directed between said parallel portions into overlying juxtaposition with said ball, permitting said receiving socket to be lowered onto said ball, and permitting
- said guide bars to be removed from said first securing bores and mounting tubes.
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