Coupling mechanism for trailers

• US 3,304,101 A
• Filed: 05/11/1965
• Issued: 02/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Layton, Jack D.
• Original Assignee: Layton, Jack D.
• Inventors: Layton, Jack D.
• Application Number:
  US04/454,906
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• US Class Current: 280/460.1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/084 Endless-track units or carriages mounted separably, adjustably or extensibly on vehicles, e.g. portable track units B62D55/07 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/02 Travelling-gear, e.g. associated with slewing gears drives therefor E02F9/20; for motor vehicles B60B, B60G; undercarriages for locomotives or railroad cars B61F; track-laying vehicles B62D; for cranes B66C23/18

Claims

1. MEANS FOR CONNECTING ONE VEHICLE TO ANOTHER DISPOSED IN FRONT OF IT COMPRISING A PAIR OF FORWARDLY PROJECTING LATERALLY SPACED ELONGATED ARMS PIVOTED ADJACENT THEIR REAR ENDS TO SAID ONE VEHICLE FOR LATERAL MOVEMENT OF THEIR FORWARD ENDS, A PAIR OF OPPOSED BIASING SPRINGS, ONE BEING CONNECTED TO EACH ARM, URGING THE FORWARD ENDS OF THE ARMS APART, AND TENDING TO HOLD THE ARMS IN A PREDETERMINED POSITION RELATIVE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID ONE VEHICLE, AN EXTENSIBLE MOTOR CARRIED BETWEEN THE ARMS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY ACROSS SAID ONE VEHICLE, WITH ENDS OF THE MOTOR OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO THE ARMS AT POINTS LOCATED FORWARDLY OF THEIR PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE VEHICLE, SAID MOTOR BEING MOVABLE AS A UNIT FROM SIDE TO SIDE OF THE VEHICLE WITH SWINGING OF SAID ARMS, AND BEING OPERABLE UPON CONTRACTION TO DRAW THE FORWARD ENDS OF SAID ARMS TOGETHER, AND A PAIR OF CONNECTING DEVICES, ONE CONNECTED TO THE FORWARD END OF EACH ARM FOR LATERAL MOVEMENT WITH THE ARM, EACH OF SAID DEVICES EXTENDING LATERALLY OUTWARDLY AND THENCE FORWARDLY FROM THE ARM TO WHICH IT IS CONNECTED, AND BEING MOUNTED FOR MOVEMENT TRANSVERSELY OF SAID ONE VEHICLE, EACH OF SAID DEVICES HAVING MEANS ADAPTED TO ENGAGE SAID OTHER VEHICLE.