Patent ID: 7451996
Filing Date: 2008-11-18
Classification: B60D

Abstract:
1. A hitch assembly adaptably and removably secured to a trailing vehicle and a tractor vehicle, comprising: (A) a draw bar attached in a generally perpendicular fashion to a vertical bar wherein the vertical bar has a plurality of securing holes for a vertical securing pin; (B) a mounting sleeve through which the vertical bar extends longitudinally wherein the mounting sleeve is attached to a hitch bar, wherein the vertical bar is positively retained within the mounting sleeve by a safety catch attached to the end of the vertical bar opposite the draw bar, and wherein the vertical bar is oriented within the mounting sleeve at a positive angle of less than 90 degrees relative to the hitch bar, and wherein the hitch bar may be removably mounted to a hitch receiving assembly of the tractor vehicle in either a first or second vertically oriented position; and, (C) a vertical securing pin and spring wherein the vertical securing pin and spring are slidably mounted inside a housing of a securing mechanism, wherein the housing is attached to the mounting sleeve with a negative angle of less than 90 degrees relative to the hitch bar, further wherein the vertical securing pin releasably protrudes into one of a plurality of holes in the vertical bar.