Swivel jack
AssigneeFulton Manufacturing Corporation
InventorEdward Ebey
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Abstract
A jack support for rotatably supporting a jack between the support position and a stored position. The jack support has two brackets with one bracket welded to an outer housing of the jack and a second bracket mounted onto the tongue portion of a trailer. The second bracket attached to the trailer has two lugs that extend therefrom. The first bracket welded to the jack has a slot and a notch therethrough which interconnect with the two lugs. The first bracket can pivot between a support position and a stored position. A spring biased pin is mounted to the first bracket and can be received within one of two holes in the second bracket to fix the support in either the stored or support position.
Claims17
A jack support for securing a jack to a supportable body, said jack support characterized by:
- a first bracket member being rigidly securable to a jack;
- a second bracket member being rigidly securable to the body;
- one of said first and second bracket members having a first engagement means extending therefrom with the other of said first and second bracket members having a first receiving means for slidably receiving said first engagement means;
- interlocking means for retaining the first bracket adjacent the second bracket;
- one of said first and second bracket members having a second engagement means with the other of said first and second bracket members having a second receiving means formed in part by a notch therethrough for slidably receiving said second engagement means when said first bracket is in a support position;
- said first and second engagement means being substantially parallel to each other;
- said first and second brackets having peripheral side portions that abut each other to prevent relative rotation of said brackets about an axis that extends transversely through both said engagement means;
- the first bracket member being slidably movable such that said second engagement means is free to exit said notch and said first bracket is then free to pivot about an axis extending axially through said first engagement means to a stored position;
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- lock means for retaining said second bracket in said stored position.
A jack support for securing a jack to a supportable body, said jack support characterized by:
- a first bracket member being rigidly securable to a jack;
- a second bracket member being rigidly securable to the supportable body;
- said second bracket member having a lower and upper lug horizontally extending therefrom at vertically spaced apart positions;
- said first bracket having a slot interlockingly and slidably receiving said lower lug, said slot including opposing detent portions formed perpendicularly thereto;
- said first bracket having a notch at its upper end for slidably receiving said upper lug;
- said first bracket member being slidably movable downward such that said upper lug disengages from said notch and said first bracket becomes free to pivot about said lower lug to a stored position;
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- said first and second brackets having peripheral side portions that abut each other to prevent relative rotation of said brackets about an axis that extends transversely through both lugs.
A jack support for securing a jack to a supportable body;
- said jack support characterized by:
- a convoluted bracket having recessed channels;
- mounting means in said recessed channels for securing said convoluted bracket to the body;
- said convoluted bracket having a central area and two peripheral flanges having abutment edges coplanar with said central area;
- an other bracket member being rigidly affixable to a jack and having a generally planar surface in sliding abutment to said central area and peripheral flanges of said convoluted bracket;
- means for pivotably moving said other bracket member between a stored position and support position;
- means for retaining said other bracket member in said stored and support position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.