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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2018
Hamburger Patent Schmiede Gmbh, Buchholz, DE;
Heinz-Ruediger Metternich, Eversen-Heide, DE;
Hamburger Patent Schmiede GmbH, Buchholz, DE;
Abstract
A dirt protection cover arrangement with a semi-trailer () and a towing vehicle (), for closing a hollow-bored king pin () on the semi-trailer () for an automatic fifth-wheel coupling, the king pin () being arranged on the underside () of the semi-trailer () as a counter-bearing for a fifth wheel () of the towing vehicle (), a dirt protection cover device () being arranged such that it is adjacent to the underside () of the semi-trailer () and can rotate about the king pin (), said dirt protection cover device including a dirt protection cover () for covering the borehole () in the king pin (), and the dirt protection cover () being configured on the dirt protection cover device () such that, during the coupling process, it can be displaced from a base position covering the borehole () in the king pin () into a coupled position exposing the borehole. Also, a dirt protection cover device () for a dirt protection cover arrangement, and a coupling method involving same.