Westfalia-automotive Gmbh & Co. Kg

Westfalia-automotive Gmbh

Gerhard Hermbusch

Bernhard Sielhorst

Thomas Benda

Jürgen Peitz

Martin Wyrwich

Fabian Hils

Alexander Giesbrecht

Andreas Mersch

Dirk Vahle

Burkhard Weniger

Friedrich Domke

Reinhold Aufderheide

Michael Drücker

Gregor Stratmann

Rheinhold Auderheide

Marcem Luedres

Ralf Von Hörsten

Gerhard Krohn

Marcem Lueders

Michael Schmitt

Heinrich Wellnitz

Jens Waldau

Jochen Hahn

Wilfried Becker

Andreas Recker

A retractile trailer hitch has a tube shaft fixed on a motor-vehicle frame and an arm having a tubular inner end pivotal on the shaft and an outer ball end. The arm is limitedly axially displaceable on the shaft between locked and unlocked positions. Formations on the frame and on the inner end angularly arrest the arm in its end positions in the locked position of the inner end. The formations are unengageable with each other in the unlocked position of the inner end. A bolt is axially displaceable inside the shaft between a holding position and a freeing position. Balls inside the inner end are coupled to the bolt for axially displacing the arm into the locked position on displacement of the bolt into the holding position and for displacing the arm axially into the unlocked position on displacement of the bolt into the freeing position.

Retractile motor-vehicle trailer hitch

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Langenberg, Germany

Gerhard Hermbusch