Patent ID: 11970032
Assignee: nan
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle towing device and mechanism for a wheelie bin comprising:
a tee shaped assembly component includes a horizontal arm and a vertical leg, said horizontal arm rigidly attached to a vertical leg which is in turn constrained about the vertical leg of this tee assembly to a lower horizontal component, the tee shaped assembly component is formed of a round stock material, and the lower horizontal component formed of a rectangular shaped material;
the lower horizontal component consisting of tubing made of metal or a polymer material and having multiple horizontal holes to facilitate attaching the forward end to the vehicle with a pin or threaded hardware, or via the vehicles trailer hitch receiver;
a self-centering rotationally limiting slot and a rotationally limiting pin; wherein said limiting pin limits the extent of rotation and support of the tee assembly about the lower horizontal component, the rotationally limiting slot having a “chevron” or “arched” shape for the rotational limiting pin to travel allowing the force of gravity to affect the tee assembly in a manner as to be rotated to or remain perpendicular to the vehicle's axis of travel further avoiding the tee assembly from rotationally wondering when not attached to refuge containers and to a lesser extent while transporting wheelie bin or wheeled refuge containers;
said limiting slots can alternately be located on the lower horizontal component with a concentric hole to confine the rotationally limiting pin in the tee assembly vertical leg, there are a multitude of rotational limiting slots to accommodate vertical adjustment of the tee assembly relative to the lower horizontal component to change the angle of the refuge containers as needed or preferred by the operator;
a refuge container to interface attaching mechanism consisting of two primary parts made from a metal or a polymer material which may be effectively mirror images of each other and rotate about the horizontal round stock arm of the tee assembly in opposite directions to each other concurrently to surround a refuge container handle to securely attach a refuge container to the tee assembly; each of the two said primary parts possessing a similar but oppositely positioned slot that is wider than the refuse container handle and arched concentrically about a hole on both primary parts in which the parts concurrently rotate in opposite direction about the horizontal round stock leg of the tee assembly to achieve a fully surrounded capture of the refuse container handle;
a locking mechanism consisting of: a shaft that may be threaded and fixedly attached to one of the two primary parts of the said refuge container to interface attaching mechanism and further includes a hand tightened knob or lever device attached to the shaft in a manner that allows the binding or locking of the two primary parts of the refuge container to interface attaching mechanism, said knob or lever is rotated either in a open ready to receive the refuge container position or a closed fully locked and secured ready to tow position.