Patent ID: 6109640
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: B60D,B62D

Abstract:
An adapter for converting to a gooseneck trailer a standard tag-along trailer having a ball-hitch coupler and horizontal tongue members extending rearwardly divergently from the coupler, the adapter including a main elevated horizontal frame with three principal structures rigidly secured to and depending from the horizontal frame and comprising:(1) a forward gooseneck structure of adjustable vertical length with a coupling for connection to a gooseneck towing point on a tow vehicle;(2) an intermediate vertical-tension-resisting rigid frame structure carrying a hitch ball to be received in the ball-hitch coupler of the standard trailer and having two transversely separated upper outer corners rigidly secured respectively to two transversely separated members of said horizontal frame; and(3) a rear vertical-compression-resisting rigid frame structure having a vertically adjustable horizontally extending structure means which can span, rest atop, and be secured to, upper surfaces of the trailer tongue members extending rearwardly divergently from the trailer ball-hitch coupler.