Patent ID: 6908098

Claim:
An attachment connectable to a hitch ball assembly to prevent rotation of the hitch ball assembly, the hitch ball assembly including a ball portion supported by a neck portion on a base section and a mounting shaft extending from a bottom end of the base section; the attachment comprising: a plate; a drawbar; and a fastener for engaging the mounting shaft; the plate having a top plate surface, a bottom plate surface and a plate passageway therebetween for receiving a bottom portion of the mounting shaft therethrough; a bottom surface of the base section being rigidly affixed to the top plate surface surrounding the passageway after the bottom portion of the mounting shaft is positioned through the plate passageway; the bottom plate surface having an anti-rotation stud extending outwardly from the bottom plate surface; the drawbar having a drawbar passageway therethrough for receiving the bottom mounting shaft portion and a stud receiving recess for fittingly receiving the anti-rotation stud therein when the bottom mounting shaft portion is positioned through the drawbar passageway; the fastener being adapted for engaging a bottom end of the mounting shaft portion so as to secure the hitch ball assembly in rigid connection with the plate and the drawbar in a manner such that when said bottom mounting shaft portion is positioned through the plate passageway and the drawbar passageway, the anti-rotation stud is positioned in the stud receiving recess of the drawbar and the fastener is engaged with the bottom of the mounting shaft portion to compress the drawbar and plate together in a non-rotatable position.