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US 2022/0134819 A1Published application
Trailer-Mounted Mock Landing Gear
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsChristian Brunckhorst, Nicholas James Brimlow
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Abstract
An example apparatus is configured to couple to a trailer and a tow vehicle. The apparatus includes a frame; one or more clamps mounted to the frame and configured to couple the frame to an underplate of the trailer; and a shaft having a first end rotatably coupled to the frame and a second end configured to couple to at least one replicated element of a towed vehicle. The at least one replicated element is configured to engage the tow vehicle.
Claims10
-8. (canceled)
A method of assembling an apparatus configured to couple to a trailer and a tow vehicle, the method comprising:
- providing a frame, wherein the frame comprises a removable disk coupled thereto;
- mounting one or more clamps to the frame;
- coupling the frame to an underplate of the trailer via the one or more clamps;
- coupling the removable disk of the frame to a king pin of the trailer;
- coupling a first end of a shaft to the frame such that the shaft is rotatably mounted to the frame at the first end of the shaft;
- and
- coupling a second end of the shaft to a replicated element of a towed vehicle to be towed, wherein the replicated element is configured to engage the tow vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.