Patent ID: 7726681
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: B60D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of preventing rattling in a receiver hitch arrangement including a receiver tube, a mount having a shank portion received within said receiver tube and a hitch pin inserted through hitch pin apertures which are formed in both said receiver tube and said shank portion and which are aligned therebetween at assembly to maintain said mount in a position for towing, said rattling being due to movement between said receiver tube and said shank portion, said method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a pair of through apertures in each vertical wall of said receiver tube being in said position for towing and in close proximity to a free end thereof; (b) threading said pair of through apertures formed in step (a); (c) threadeably engaging a threaded shank of a fastener with each of said pair of through apertures formed in step (a) and threaded in step (b); (d) positioning exterior surfaces of vertical walls of said shank portion in spaced relationship with respective interior surfaces of vertical walls of said receiver tube; (e) operably advancing each fastener for direct contact with said exterior surface portion of said shank portion of said mount inserted into said receiver tube; and (f) frictionally caging said shank portion, between free ends of said threaded shanks of said fasteners, relative to said receiver tube.