Patent ID: 7059455

Claim:
A brake actuator for a towed vehicle using said towed vehicle's own brake pedal to actuate the brakes of said towed vehicle, said brake actuator being attachable to a towing vehicle by way or a tow bar, said brake actuator comprising; a body, mounting bars and a cable; said mounting bars being fixedly attached, on one part, to a towed vehicle; said mounting bars, on another part, having bar mounting holes so that said body can be pivotably mounted on said mounting bars through nuts and bolts means inserted through bar mounting holes and body mounting holes; said body mounting holes defining an axis; said body being releasably attached to said tow bar by way of attachment clips wherein each said attachment clip is pivotally mounted on a bar of said tow bar and an attachment hole is engaged by an attachment means to said body; rods passing through a plurality of holes made through a plurality of panels; said rods slidably engaging said attachment clips through attachment holes; said rods having a biasing means; a blocker configured such that said rods being normally locked in place when a tip extending off each said rod is locked by said blocker but are free to be pulled when said tip is no longer blocked by said blocker.