Patent ID: 6908094

Claim:
A towing hitch suitable for mounting to a tow vehicle for releasable connection to a trailer hitch; said towing hitch comprising a shell for attachment to said vehicle and a draw bar carried by said shell; said drawbar including a hitch part for attachment to said trailer hitch; said shell including a substantially vertical elongated receiver part having upper and lower ends for accepting said drawbar; said drawbar slidably shiftable along said receiver part; said drawbar being selectively securable to said shell at a plurality of vertically spaced locations between said ends along said receiver part;, said drawbar releasable from said shell at either of said ends; said shell including a rear wall; said receiver including a pair of vertically oriented, horizontally spaced, opposing flange parts carried by said rear wall; said flange parts defining a central channel therebetween; each of said flange parts spaced from said rear wall to define a side channel on opposite sides of said central channel and located between each said flange part and said rear wall; said flange parts having horizontally aligned, opposing first holes at each of said plurality of locations; said drawbar including an arm with opposite ends; said hitch part located at one of said drawbar ends; a mounting plate located at the other of said drawbar ends; said mounting plate extending outwardly from said arm on opposite sides; said arm having a second hole alignable with said first holes in said hitch parts; said draw bar fitted into said central channel with said mounting plate fitted into said side channels; said draw bar being slidably shiftable vertically within said central channel along said flange parts; said draw bar being securable at any of said plurality of locations with a pin through aligned first and second holes in said flange parts and said arm.