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US 3,941,407 AGranted
Fifth wheel trailer hitch
AssigneeMidway Industries, Inc.
InventorGlenn H. Breford
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Abstract
A fifth wheel trailer hitch has a mounting plate rigidly mountable on a supporting surface. A pair of spaced upright ends are removably mountable on the mounting plate. The hitch has a cross member pivotally mounted with the upright ends. A coupler is mounted on the upper side of the cross member to engage a coupler on a trailer.
Claims6
A fifth wheel type trailer hitch, comprising:
- a. a mount means having a mounting plate rigidly mountable on a supporting structure and a pair of spaced upright end portions, said mounting plate having means to removably mount said upright end portions, and said upright end portions each having in the upper portion thereof a pair of oppositely extending lugs on a lower portion thereof to pivotally receive and mount a shaft, said means to removably mount said upright end portions has a socket and guide means to receive and hold said lugs in a mounted relation,
- b. a cross member having a shaft mounting means in opposite portions thereof and having a shaft mounted in said shaft mounting means and extending from said cross member, said shaft being mounted in said means to pivotally receive and mount a shaft,
- c. coupling means mounted on the upper side of said cross member and constructed and adapted to receive and mount in towing relation a cooperative coupling means on a trailer or the like, and
- d. said coupling means has an entrance slot in said cross member, a jaw member movably mounted with said cross member, a locking bolt slidably mounted to secure said jaw member in an operating position and a second locking bolt slidably mounted to in use secure said first named locking bolt when said first named locking bolt is securing said jaw member.
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