Motorized vehicle
OwnerDonald J. Mowat, H. Michael Domaninventors
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Abstract
There is described a connecting assembly for a light weight vehicle having mutually engageable hook and latch portions wherein the hook portion comprises engaging hooks to engage and lift the latch means, the engaging portion further including a shoulder to cause the subsequent disengagement of the latch and engaging portions, support hooks to receive the latch portion upon its disengagement from the engagement hooks, and a levered handle actuatable to cause displacement of the latch portion from the support hooks.
Claims61
A vehicle which can be disassembled into a forwardly extending wheel assembly and a rearwardly extending trailer by means of a connecting assembly disposed therebetween, the connecting assembly comprising:
- latch means provided on said trailer;
- hook means provided on said wheel assembly to be mutually engageable with said latch means, said hook means including;
- (a) engaging means to engage and lift said latch means and having formed thereon shoulder means to cause the progressive disengagement of said engaging means from said latch means during the lifting thereof;
- (b) support means to engagedly receive said latch means upon disengagement thereof from said engaging means to secure coupling of said wheel assembly and said trailer together;
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- (c) lever means actuatable to cause disengagement between said latch means and said support means.
A connecting assembly for a light-weight vehicle, said assembly having mutually engageable hook and latch means wherein said hook means comprises:
- engaging means to engage and lift said latch means, said engaging means having formed thereon shoulder means to cause the progressive disengagement of said engaging means from said latch means during the lifting thereof;
- support means to engagedly receive said latch means upon disengagement thereof from said engaging means to secure coupling of said hook and latch means together;
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- lever means actuatable to cause disengagement between said latch means and said support means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.