Patent ID: 8919804
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: B60D

Abstract:
1. A heavy duty vehicle multi hitch and alignment system for connection to a receiver tube mounting plate on a towing vehicle, and that allows a vehicle to couple to a trailer with a pintle hitch or a conventionally dimensioned ball hitch without removing the ball and ball mount stud from the towing vehicle, comprising: a base mount that may be removably bolted to a towing vehicle's receiver tube mounting plate; a pintle hook alignment wedge that is removably affixed to said base mount; a ball mount alignment plate that is removably affixed to said pintle hook alignment wedge; a ball mount stud removably affixed to said base mount by engagement with a nut thereon; a trailer hitch ball removably affixed to said ball mount stud; and at least one ball lock that threadingly engages said trail hitch ball to said ball mount stud; and wherein said base mount is a planar hitch support plate with a mounting flange extending normally therefrom, and having bolt receiving orifices formed there through said hitch support plate that are aligned with a pattern of bolt receiving orifices on said receiver tube mounting plate, and wherein said hitch support plate has a partially circular orifice formed thereon that is greater than 180 degrees in circumference and which intersects a front peripheral edge of said hitch support plate, and two tab receiving orifices formed thereon said hitch support plate.