Patent ID: 7269868

Claim:
A multipurpose hitch pin hammer device for coupling a tongue of a towed vehicle with a hitch of a towing vehicle and for hammering objects, wherein the tongue and hitch having vertical apertures therethrough which are vertically aligned when the tongue and hitch are coupled, said device comprising: a hammer means including a hemispherical head attached to an opposing flattened cylindrical head, whereby said hammer means comprises a ball-peen hammer; a shank having a generally circular cross section which is smaller in diameter than the vertically aligned apertures for insertion downwardly through the vertically aligned apertures and has a length such that an upper end of the said shank is positioned above the apertures and a lower end of the shank extends below the apertures, said upper end of said shank is attached to said hammer means; a ring flange attached to said shank, said ring flange positioned circumferentially around said shank and located below said hammer means; a sleeve traversing through a lower end portion of said shank, said sleeve defining a hollow bore hole through said shank; a hairpin slidably inserted in said hollow bore hole of said shank; a tapered nose section attached to the lower end of said shank.