Dynamic anti-sway, tongue weight-equalizing trailer hitch

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8328222
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12925901

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An anti-sway, tongue-weight equalizing hitch for a trailer having a hitch ball socket; a shank structured for releasably connecting to a towing vehicle; a hitch head secured to the shank and having a longitudinal axis, a hitch ball with a tow axis on the longitudinal axis; an elevating mechanism for adjusting the relative elevations of the hitch head and the trailer tongue; a leveling mechanism for vertically-orienting the tow axis; right and left spring bars mounted to the hitch head to pivot about opposing right and left rearwardly-tilted stabilizing axes disposed in opposing vertically-oriented pivot axis planes spaced laterally and equidistantly outwardly from the longitudinal axis; and right and left suspension mechanisms tensionally suspending distal ends of the spring bars wherein distal ends thereof are normally spaced laterally and equidistantly outwardly from the respective vertical-oriented pivot axis planes in an equilibrium configuration.

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AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING COMPANYONE MILL ROAD INDUSTRIAL PARK PENDER NE 68047

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Choquette, Paul Sergeant Bluff, US 9 49
Roeber, Leslie Emerson, US 11 85

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