Portable rolling bumper
OwnerBruce Warrington, Ted McCaainventors
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Abstract
An adjustable bumper for mounting in a horizontally oriented non-round recess of a vehicle mount receiver so as to facilitate the pushing of one vehicle with another. The bumper has a straight leg adapter portion for engaging with the mount receiver, a cross-bar portion secured at a right angle to the adapter, and an elongate cylindrical roller held within the cross-bar portion between two laterally extended end arms. The adapter portion includes positioning apertures that allow the distance between the roller and the vehicle to be adjusted and the cross-bar portion has similar positioning apertures that allow the height of the roller to be adjusted.
Claims5
An adaptable bumper for mounting in a horizontally oriented non-round recess of a vehicle mount receiver, the bumper comprising:
- a straight leg adapter portion of a shape for non-rotational sliding engagement within the receiver recess, and a straight cross-bar portion, the later integrally fastened to, and supported by, the straight leg adapter portion at right angles thereto such that with the straight leg adapter portion engaged within the receiver recess and extending horizontally from the vehicle the cross-bar portion extends laterally relative to the vehicle;
- a U-shaped bumper support including a linear body portion and a pair of end arms, one of the arms fixed at each end of the bumper support, and extending laterally from the body in a common direction defining a space therebetween, each of the arms having roller engagement means therein;
- an elongate, cylindrical bumper roller rotationally engaged at opposing ends thereof by the roller engagement means so as to extend between the arms in the space therebetween, such that the bumper roller is free to rotate about a longitudinal axis thereof while held in a position relative to the vehicle for providing bumper protection to the vehicle;
- the body further providing a first positioning means, the cross-bar portion providing a second positioning means, together the first and second positioning means communicating for positioning the bumper roller laterally relative to the rectangular recess so as to adjust the lateral position of the bumper roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.