Universal tow bar

• US 3,181,893 A
• Filed: 09/27/1962
• Issued: 05/04/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold V. Yentzer, Howard B. Jopson, Paul Karnow
• Original Assignee: Harold V. Yentzer, Howard B. Jopson, Paul Karnow
• Inventors: Jopson, Howard B., Yentzer, Harold V., PAUL KARNOW
• Application Number:
  US04/227,666
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• US Class Current: 280/494
• CPC Class Codes: B60D 1/167 consisting of articulated or rigidly assembled bars or tubes forming a V-, Y-, or U-shaped draw gear B60D1/173 takes precedence

Claims

1. TOWING APPARATUS FOR DEVICES HAVING VARIOUS TYPES OF TOW FASTENINGS COMPRISING:

A PAIR OF RIGID LEGS PIVOTALLY JOINED AT ONE END OF EACH FOR ARTICULATION THEREBETWEEN, ATTACHMENT MEANS FIXED TO SAID JUNCTION FOR COUPLING A TOWING VEHICLE THERETO, A SHAFT ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON ONE OF SAID LEGS, A SPOOL COAXIALLY SECURED TO SAID SHAFT, SPRING MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID LEG AND SAID SPOOL FOR ROTATING SAID SHAFT AND SAID COAXIAL SPOOL, STRAP MEANS HAVING ONE END THEREOF WOUND ABOUT SAID SPOOL AND HAVING THE OTHER END CONNECTED TO THE OTHER LEG, AND SELECTIVE FITTING MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE OTHER END OF SAID LEGS FOR ENGAGING A PARTICULAR TYPE OF CONNECTION PROVIDED ON THE DEVICES.