Fifth wheel bearing plate cover
AssigneeEastern Tool & Machine, Inc.
InventorsFrank Szalay, Joseph C. Kubik
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Abstract
A bearing plate cover for the fifth wheel of a vehicle engaging the entire bearing and non-bearing surfaces thereof. The bearing plate cover is composed of a flat sheet plastic material having a low friction coefficient and high deflection characteristics so as to provide a wear resistant slippery surface for contact with another bearing surface.
Claims9
In combination with a fifth wheel of a vehicle having a substantially flat semi-circular bearing plate with a pair of spaced parallel outwardly extending sloping guides on one side thereof forming a substantially V-shaped passage between the guides extending into the flat bearing plate;
- a bearing plate cover comprising a section of sheet plastic material having a low friction coefficient and formed in a shape conforming to and covering all of the bearing plate and the sloping guides, a metal member attached coextensively to the underside of said bearing plate cover along one edge thereof for adding rigidity thereto, said metal member extending inwardly from the edge of said bearing plate cover and means for securing the bearing plate cover and said metal member to the bearing plate and guides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.