A hitch assembly for attachment to a vehicle to tow objects, such as trailers, over a road, pavement, or the ground comprising:
- (a) a tubular receiver member having continuous walls of approximately rectangular cross section, means for mounting the receiver member to the vehicle so that the receiver member is substantially vertical relative to the road, pavement or ground therebeneath;
- (b) a tubular mount member of approximately rectangular cross section and having continuous walls;
- (c) a mount plate, and means for securing the mount plate to the mount member;
- (d) the receiver member and the mount member being shaped so that the receiver member telescopically receives the mount member with the walls of the receiver tube member flush against the walls of the mount member so that when torque is applied to the mount member the receiver member walls engage the mount member walls to resist rotary movement of the mount member relative to the receiver member;
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- (e) means for holding the mount member within the receiver member at a selected position comprising one of those members having a passageway extending transversely therethrough, and the other such member with a plurality of transverse passageways therethrough positioned so that selected passageways in the member with the plurality of passageway can be aligned with the passageway in the other member, and a locking part for passing through the said aligned passageways to hold the two members in a fixed relationship,
- wherein the receiver member is the rear receiver member, and the means for mounting the rear receiver member to the vehicle comprises a front receiver tube, the front receiver tube being welded to the vehicle to be substantially horizontal relative to the ground, road, or pavement, the rear receiver member having an extension bar secured thereto, the said bar being sized to be slidingly received within the front receiver tube so that part of it is enclosed by the walls of the front receiver tube, and wherein the means for mounting the front receiver tube to the vehicle comprises a pair of attachment members for connection to the vehicle, the attachment members having depending legs having holes therethrough, said holes being aligned with one another, the said attachment members being angle shaped and having substantially horizontal legs with means for attaching the horizontal legs to the vehicle, the front receiver tube having a pair of transverse holes for alignment with the two holes in the depending legs, and the bar having a transverse passageway extending therethrough for alignment with the holes in the depending legs of the attachment members and the holes in the front receiver tube so that a locking member can pass through said bar passageway and holes in the front receiver tube and holes in the depending legs to engage the bar to the front receiver tube and to the attachment members, and wherein the vehicle has a plate with holes therethrough, and wherein the substantially horizontal legs of the angle members have holes therethrough for alignment with the said vehicle's holes so that a fastening member can pass through the said holes in the angle members and through the vehicle plate to fasten the angle members to the vehicle.