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US 4,046,398 AGranted
High clearance vehicle hitch
OwnerGeorge O. Dunwoodyinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle hitch for use with a high clearance vehicle which provides a means by which trailers and the like may be hitched to the high clearance vehicle at either the clearance height of the high clearance vehicle or the clearance height of a conventional vehicle.
Claims8
A vehicular hitch for use with a high clearance vehicle and having multiple hitch placements comprising:
- (a) a first hitch assembly rigidly attached to a vehicular frame and positioned at essentially the height of said vehicular frame;
- (b) said first hitch assembly comprising a first tubular rectangular cylinder adapted to receive a hitch and a first support securing a first end of said first tubular rectangular cylinder to the said vehicular frame and a second support securing a second end of said first tubular rectangular cylinder to said vehicular frame;
- (c) a second hitch assembly removably attached to said first hitch assembly and positioned generally vertically removed from said first hitch assembly in a downward direction;
- (d) said second hitch assembly being removable in such a way that upon removal of said second hitch assembly, essentially no part of said vehicular hitch extends vertically below said first hitch assembly;
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- (e) said second hitch assembly comprising a second tubular rectangular cylinder adapted to receive a hitch and a plate secured to a first end of said second tubular rectangular cylinder and containing an opening therethrough adapted to interact with said first end of said first tubular rectangular cylinder.
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