A guard for shielding a trailer hitch ball to prevent the front bumper of one vehicle from jumping over such a hitch ball mounted on a draft bar extending rearwardly from another vehicle comprising a U-shaped member having the central portion secured to the draft bar with the legs thereof forming guard plates extending upwardly on each side of the ball, the member being secured to the bar by a U-bolt straddling the bar and extending through said central portion and the guard plates being configured to allow relatively free lateral swinging of a trailer tongue hitched to the ball.
A trailer hitch comprising, a hitching ball for a vehicle having an annular groove below the ball, a hitching member for a trailer having a pair of spaced openings extending therethrough, an elongated U-bolt for passage through the openings and in the groove to retain the hitching member to the ball, and a device for clamping the U-bolt to the hitching member.
A trailer hitch locking assembly for locking a trailer hitch to a vehicle to prevent theft. The trailer hitch locking assembly includes a plate member with front and back sides and a pair of opposite ends. The plate member is positionable over a hitch ball coupled to a rear bumper of a vehicle. The plate member has a pair of apertures extending through it. The apertures of the plate member are alignable with holes extending through the rear bumper. A pair of threaded fasteners extend through the apertures of the plate member and the holes of the rear bumper. A pair of nuts are threadedly coupled to the threaded fasteners.
A pintle hitch adaptor enables a vehicle equipped with a drawbar or DMI bumper to tow trailers having different towing components. The pintle hitch adaptor comprises a sleeve that fits over arid is held to the drawbar. A pintle hitch is mounted to the sleeve. Aligned holes in the sleeve and the drawbar receive a hitch ball shank. A trailer tongue with a cup or eye engages the ball. A pintle hitch latch locks to prevent disengagement of the trailer tongue cup or eye from the ball. Shoulders on a pintle hitch post prevent: the latch from contacting the cup. Alternately, the ball can be removed, and a tow pin can to used between a hole in the trailer tongue and the drawbar and sleeve holes. A locking screw on the sleeve holds the sleeve and drawbar holes in alignment when the ball is removed.
A trailer hitch guide provides a temporary, removable V-shaped fence partly embracing a hitch ball for guiding a trailer tongue into place to fit over the ball. The guide is provided as an attachment made up in part of a flat plate having a central opening for accommodating the hitch ball, and this opening is elongated fore and aft to enable selective positioning of the plate relative to the ball so as to assure a proper location of the other part, which is a hitch fence mountable on the plate. Attachment of the fence to the plate is effected by downwardly and rearwardly directed studs on the fence that removably fit openings in the plate, the shape of the studs counteracting the forward thrust of the trailer tongue during hitching and also enabling easy mounting and dismounting of the fence to and from the plate, which remains on the towing vehicle hitch structure as by welding or attaching bolts.
A pintle hitch adaptor enables a vehicle equipped with a drawbar or DMI bumper to tow trailers having different towing components. The pintle hitch adaptor comprises a sleeve that fits over arid is held to the drawbar. A pintle hitch is mounted to the sleeve. Aligned holes in the sleeve and the drawbar receive a hitch ball shank. A trailer tongue with a cup or eye engages the ball. A pintle hitch latch locks to prevent disengagement of the trailer tongue cup or eye from the ball. Shoulders on a pintle hitch post prevent: the latch from contacting the cup. Alternately, the ball can be removed, and a tow pin can to used between a hole in the trailer tongue and the drawbar and sleeve holes. A locking screw on the sleeve holds the sleeve and drawbar holes in alignment when the ball is removed.
