A new and improved trailer wire recoil device for storage of a trailer's electrical hook-up wires comprising in combination:
- a rectangular housing being sized for mounting behind a vehicle's license plate, the housing having a front wall, a rear wall and peripheral edges therearound, the peripheral edges having a right side edge and a left side edge, the peripheral edges having an upper edge and a lower edge, a connector block being attached to the rear wall and internal the housing, the connector block having a plurality of bushings, the housing having a plurality of mounting holes within the front wall being axially extended horizontally through the rear wall, each of the mounting holes being capable of receiving a screw for mounting the housing behind the vehicle's license plate;
- a receptacle being positioned within a slot of the left side edge of the housing, the receptacle having an internal wire positioned within the connector block of the housing, the internal wire being fastened with the plurality of bushings of the connector block of the housing, the receptacle coupling with a vehicle plug when the housing is mounted onto the vehicle;
- a rotatable member having a flange fixedly attached to a cylinder, the flange having teeth around a peripheral edge thereof for engaging a pawl, the pawl having a release arm and being positioned within the housing, the release arm of the pawl being extended through the right side edge of the peripheral edges of the housing, the rotatable member functioning as a ratchet mechanism when turned;
- an axle rod being fixedly attached within the housing to the rear wall and front wall and between the upper edge and a lower edge of the peripheral edges, the axle rod having a disc member being adjacent the rear wall of the housing, the disc member providing fixed mounting for a plurality of contact points on a top surface thereof, the plurality of contact points on the top surface thereof being in connection with the bushings of the connector block, the rotatable member being positionable over the axle rod and in contact with the disc member thereof, the flange of the rotatable member being spaced from the disc member of the axle rod and the front wall of the housing, the rotatable member being cable of spinning about the axle rod with the disc member remaining stationary;
- an elongated trailer wire having a first end with a trailer plug extending from the right side of the housing for coupling with a trailer receptacle, the trailer wire having a second end being coupled with the contact points of the disc member of the axle rod when the trailer wire is wrapped around the rotatable member positioned within the housing;
- a spring member being attached to the axle rod and the rotatable member so that unwinding the trailer wire from the rotatable member causes the rotatable member to wind the spring member, the spring member being released at a control rate by the pawl engaging the teeth of the flange when the rotatable member being rotated by pulling the trailer wire;
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- whereby when in use the trailer wire can be rapidly deployed off the rotatable member within the housing for coupling with the trailer receptacle by pulling the trailer plug out and away from the housing to extend the trailer wire for coupling and when not in use, the trailer plug can be uncoupled to allow the trailer wire to be rewound onto the rotatable member within the housing by a restoring torsional force created by the spring member.