Multi-hitch element tow hitch construction

Claim 2

A hitch and towing means for use when operatively hitching and coupling 1. a powered draft vehicle of one type or another, a truck or tractor to 2. a drawn vehicle, a trailer, wagon, or farming implement for example: hitching and towing means comprising a relatively stationary outer sleeve constituting a housing, the bore of said sleeve providing a bearing, complemental mounting means for said outer sleeve fixed atop the exterior of said sleeve and embodying a fixed upstanding screw-threaded anchoring stud having a stud-securing nut thereon, an inner relatively movable sleeve housed in said outer sleeve and journaled for rotation in said bearing, said inner sleeve having assembling and retaining means at its respective leading and trailing end portions cooperatively orienting and assembling said sleeves, and hitching means operatively carried by the trailing end of said inner sleeve for hooking up and towing a trailer, wagon, farming implement, or the like, said hitching means comprising an adapter having encompassing portions surrounding and fixedly secured to a coacting trailing end portion of said inner sleeve and provided with securely mounted radially projecting individual ball-type hitches, said hitches being circumferentially spaced apart and each varying in size, being selectively usable and serving to accommodate and permit socket-equipped couplings provided on said trailer to be operatively coupled thereto.

Claim 3

a drawn vehicle, a trailer, wagon, or farming implement for example: hitching and towing means comprising a relatively stationary outer sleeve constituting a housing, the bore of said sleeve providing a bearing, an elongated inverted channel member having a web and longitudinal depending side flanges, said flanges being perched atop and welded lengthwise to a coacting upper peripheral surface of said outer sleeve, an upstanding stud affixed at a lower end to said peripheral surface, a median portion passing through a hole provided therefor in said web and an upper end which is screw-threaded to accommodaTe an anchoring nut, an inner relatively movable sleeve housed in the bore of said outer sleeve snug-fitted but journaled for manually turnable rotation in said bore in a manner that said bore provides a bearing for said inner sleeve, said inner sleeve being of a length longer than the outer sleeve and having its leading and trailing end portions projecting beyond corresponding open ends of said outer sleeve, said projecting end portions being surrounded by fixedly mounted stop collars which are adapted to abut the coacting ends of said outer sleeve, the trailing end of said inner sleeve being provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced keeper pin holes, said outer sleeve being provided with a keeper pin hole with which said spaced keeper pin holes are adapted to be manually aligned in keeping with the needs at hand, a bodily insertable and removable keeper pin having a headed upper end, said pin being adapted to be passed downwardly through said keeper pin hole and a selected one of said spaced keeper pin holes, an adapter member surrounding and fixedly secured to a coacting trailing end of said inner sleeve and provided with securely mounted ball-head hitches which are spaced circumferentially apart and are progressively enlarged in diametral size and are accordingly selectively usable in a manner to permit socket-equipped couplings to be operatively coupled thereto.

Claim 4

a drawn vehicle, a trailer, wagon, or farming implement for example: hitching and towing means comprising a relatively stationary outer sleeve constituting a housing, the bore of said sleeve providing a bearing, an elongated inverted channel member having a web and longitudinal depending side flanges, said flanges being perched atop and welded lengthwise to a coacting upper peripheral surface of said outer sleeve, an upstanding stud affixed at a lower end to said peripheral surface, a median portion passing through a hole provided therefor in said web and an upper end which is screw-threaded to accommodaTe an anchoring nut, an inner relatively movable sleeve housed in the bore of said outer sleeve snug-fitted but journaled for manually turnable rotation in said bore in a manner that said bore provides a bearing for said inner sleeve, said inner sleeve being of a length longer than the outer sleeve and having its leading and trailing end portions projecting beyond corresponding open ends of said outer sleeve, said projecting end portions being surrounded by fixedly mounted stop collars which are adapted to abut the coacting ends of said outer sleeve, the trailing end of said inner sleeve being provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced keeper pin holes, said outer sleeve being provided with a keeper pin hole with which said spaced keeper pin holes are adapted to be manually aligned in keeping with the needs at hand, a bodily insertable and removable keeper pin having a headed upper end, said pin being adapted to be passed downwardly through said keeper pin hole and a selected one of said spaced keeper pin holes, an adapter member surrounding and fixedly secured to a coacting trailing end of said inner sleeve and provided with securely mounted ball-head hitches which are spaced circumferentially apart and are progressively enlarged in diametral size and are accordingly selectively usable in a manner to permit socket-equipped couplings to be operatively coupled thereto.

Claim 5

The hitching means defined in and according to claim 1, said adapter comprising a non-circular frame having individual flat portions on which said ball-type hitches are removably and accessibly bolted in given positions, and rearwardly projecting clips carried by said frame, said clips having spaced parallel ears, said ears having aligned hitch-pin holes, and a hitch pin removably fitted in the coacting holes and adapted to permit an apertured pulling and towing tongue to be retentively connected to said ears and adapter.

Claim 6

a drawn vehicle, a trailer, wagon, or farming implement for example: hitching and towing means comprising a relatively stationary outer sleeve constituting a housing, the bore of said sleeve providing a bearing, complemental mounting means for said outer sleeve fixed atop the exterior of said sleeve and embodying a fixed upstanding screw-threaded anchoring stud having a stud-securing nut thereon, an inner relatively movable sleeve housed in said outer sleeve and journaled for rotation in said bearing, said inner sleeve having assembling and retaining means at its respective leading and trailing end portions cooperatively orienting and assembling said sleeves, and hitching means operatively carried by the trailing end of said inner sleeve for hooking up and towing a trailer, wagon, farming implement, or the like, said hitching means comprising an adapter having encompassing portions surrounding and fixedly secured to a coacting trailing end portion of said inner sleeve and provided with securely mounted radially projecting individual ball-type hitches, said hitches being circumferentially spaced apart and each varying in size, being selectively usable and serving to accommodate and permit socket-equipped couplings provided on said trailer to be operatively coupled thereto.

Claim 7

a drawn vehicle, a trailer, wagon, or farming implement for example: hitching and towing means comprising a relatively stationary outer sleeve constituting a housing, the bore of said sleeve providing a bearing, complemental mounting means for said outer sleeve fixed atop the exterior of said sleeve and embodying a fixed upstanding screw-threaded anchoring stud having a stud-securing nut thereon, an inner relatively movable sleeve housed in said outer sleeve and journaled for rotation in said bearing, said inner sleeve having assembling and retaining means at its respective leading and trailing end portions cooperatively orienting and assembling said sleeves, and hitching means operatively carried by the trailing end of said inner sleeve for hooking up and towing a trailer, wagon, farming implement, or the like, said hitching means comprising an adapter having encompassing portions surrounding and fixedly secured to a coacting trailing end portion of said inner sleeve and provided with securely mounted radially projecting individual ball-type hitches, said hitches being circumferentially spaced apart and each varying in size, being selectively usable and serving to accommodate and permit socket-equipped couplings provided on said trailer to be operatively coupled thereto.

Claim 8

A hitch and towing means for use when operatively coupling

Claim 9

A hitch and towing means for use when operatively coupling

Claim 10

The hitching means defined in and according to claim 3, said adapter member comprising a non-circular frame having individual flat portions on which said ball-type hitches are removably and accessibly bolted in given positions, and rearwardly projecting clips carried by said frame, said clips having spaced parallel ears, said ears having aligned hitch-pin holes, and a hitch pin removably fitted in the coacting holes and adapted to permit an apertured pulling and towing tongue to be retentively connected to said ears and adapter.

Claim 11

The hitching means defined in and according to claim 4, and wherein said web is provided at a place adjacent said stud with a pair of screw-threaded bracket fastening holes, and, in combination, a draft tongue hold-down bracket having a centralized arched portion to bridge over a portion of said tongue and offset end portions having screw-threaded headed fasteners which are designed and adapted to screw into said bracket fastening holes.