Reese Products, Inc.

Cequent Towing Products, Inc.

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Cequent Towning Products, Inc.

Katherine A Adams

Richard W McCoy

Jason R Moldthan

Thomas W Lindenman

Jacob S Belinky

John J Kass

David A Young

George O Snook

David A Watch

Gregory D Richardson

David L Hoelscher

A multipositionable apparatus for mounting on a receiver assembly carried by a vehicle includes a support frame, a platform carried on the support frame and a linkage for displaceably mounting the platform relative to the frame and positively holding the platform in at least two different positions.

Multipositional apparatus for mounting to a receiver assembly

A bracket, apparatus and method are provided for adapting a simple draw bar and hitch ball arrangement to allow connection to a sway control device. The bracket includes an aperture for receiving the threaded stem of the hitch ball, a notch for receiving and engaging the draw bar and a second aperture for receiving a sway control device connector such as a sway control ball. The bracket allows connection to any number of sway control devices available in the industry so that a simple draw bar and hitch ball may be converted for sway control capability.

Sway control conversion bracket

A receiver assembly () allows one to carry an elongated article or articles having a length exceeding a load bed/rack of a vehicle to which the receiver assembly () is attached. The receiver assembly includes a central frame member (), a pair of mounting brackets () to secure the central frame member () and load bed/rack extender assembly (). The bed/rack extender assembly () includes a pair of L-shaped space support members (). Either end of the spaced support members may be connected into the accessory receivers () so that the extender assembly () may be selectively secured in one of two positions.

Receiver assembly with load bed extender

A double decker article carrier for mounting to a receiver assembly includes a frame having a pair of mounting bars for securing the frame to the receiver assembly and a pair of support members. A first platform is carried by the mounting bars and a second platform is carried by the support members. The platforms are carried in an aligned, stacked configuration with one over the other.

Double decker article carrier for receiver assembly

An apparatus is provided for tightening a draw bar, hitch bar or accessory mounting post in a receiver box of a trailer hitch receiver assembly. The apparatus broadly includes a body having an intermediate section with a threaded aperture and a pair of projecting mounting lugs. The apparatus also includes a threaded mounting bolt for engaging the threaded aperture in the body. The body is essentially W-shaped including a pair of shoulders on the intermediate section and a beaded tip at the end of each projecting mounting lug which securely seat and hold the tightening apparatus in the lumen of a tubular hitch bar. The threaded connecting pin is tightened in the threaded aperture in the intermediate section of the body when the hitch bar is positioned in the receiver box in order to tighten the hitch bar against the wall of the receiver box and prevent rattling.

Hitch bar tightener

Hitch mountable table

A trailer hitch assembly includes a hitch bar and a hitch ball carried on the hitch bar. The hitch ball includes a ball head, a stem and a fastener for engaging the stem and securing the hitch ball to the hitch bar. The trailer hitch accessory also includes a trailer hitch accessory mounting assembly. That mounting assembly includes a bracket having a first aperture for receiving the shank of the hitch ball and two depending mounting flanges. Each of the mounting flanges includes a second aperture and a third aperture. In addition, the trailer hitch assembly includes a trailer hitch accessory having a trailer hitch accessory mounting bracket coupler. The coupler nests over the bracket. A pivot pin and a separate locking pin are each received in cooperating apertures in the coupler and bracket to complete the connection.

Trailer hitch with trailer hitch accessory mounting assembly

Single-wheel trailer

Cargo carrier

An accessory carrier assembly includes a reversible shank manufactured of a substantially square first portion and a substantially square second portion. The first portion is sized to engage a first hitch receiver and the second portion is sized to engage a second hitch receiver. To attach the accessory carrier to the reversible shank, the first segment is located in amounting assembly either with or without the bushings depending on which type of hitch receiver is available. The accessory carrier is pivotable by removal of a single pin to provide access to a rear of a vehicle. The single pin can be further located in a stop aperture to prevent overrotation of the carrier.

Reversible shank for hitch mounted accessory carriers

Trailer hitch accessory mount

Accessory mount for trailer hitch

Support arm for transformer table

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Mishawaka, IN, United States of America

Katherine A Adams