Trailer stabilization and restraint
AssigneeStabilock, LLC
InventorThomas Terrance Kimener
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Abstract
A parked freight trailer stabilizer and restraint comprising: (a) a kingpin receiver configured to lock onto a kingpin of a parked freight trailer; (b) a jack operatively coupled to the kingpin receiver, the jack repositionable between a retracted position and an extended position; (c) a tail hold operatively coupled to the kingpin receiver, the tail hold repositionable between a stowed position and a restraining position, the tail hold configured to engage a ground mount; and, (d) a transport receiver configured to engage a transport vehicle.
Claims4
A method of positioning a stabilizer for a parked semi-trailer, the method comprising:
- removably coupling a trailer stabilizer to a transport vehicle, using a projection and receiver interface, by repositioning a front end of the transport vehicle toward the trailer stabilizer;
- repositioning the front end of the transport vehicle toward a front end of the parked semi-trailer to reposition at least a portion of the trailer stabilizer underneath the front end of the parked semi-trailer, while the parked semi-trailer is awaiting at least one of loading and unloading;
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- repositioning the front end of the transport vehicle away from the front end of the parked semi-trailer to removably decouple the trailer stabilizer from the transport vehicle, while maintaining at least the portion of the trailer stabilizer underneath the front end of the parked semi-trailer, by disengaging the projection from the receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.