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US 10,875,368 B1Granted
Weight distributing anti-sway trailer hitch
AssigneeCamco Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsBruce Andrew Angel, Steven L. Spencer
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Abstract
A weight distributing anti-sway trailer hitch has a pair of spring arms extending rearwardly from the head unit and a pair of hookup brackets for connecting a remote end of each spring arm to a trailer. The hookup brackets have a hookup plate and a hookup strap that sandwich a trailer frame therebetween to secure the bracket to the trailer, and further have a clamp that can be opened and closed to secure the remote end of the spring arm to the trailer frame during towing.
Claims16
A weight distributing anti-sway trailer hitch comprises:
- a head unit, a pair of spring arms extending rearwardly from the head unit, and a pair of hookup brackets for connecting a distal end of each spring arm to a trailer;
- wherein the head unit comprises a U-ear hitch plate connected to a shank, the U-ear hitch plate including a top plate and a bottom plate extending rearwardly therefrom and a boss affixed to a back side of the U-ear hitch plate, the top and bottom plates in spaced-apart relationship to one another;
- disposed between the top and bottom plates are an upper trunnion plate, a lower trunnion plate, and a spindle post, the upper and lower trunnion plates operatively connected to the spindle post for rotational movement therewith relative to the top and bottom plates of the U-ear hitch plate;
- the head unit further comprising a clamp with one or more friction pads, each of the one or more friction pads in engagement with the spindle post and the clamp being affixed to the U-ear hitch plate via the boss, whereby frictional engagement between the one or more friction pads and the spindle post to control rotational movement of the spindle post and upper and lower trunnion plates is adjustable by tightening or loosening the clamp.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.