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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Wolfgang Gentner, Ditzingen, DE;
Emmerich Kleb, Markgroeningen, DE;
Joerg Riehle, Stuttgart, DE;
Hans Riehle, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Oris Fahrzeugteile Hans Riehle GmbH, Moeglingen, DE;
Abstract
In order to improve a trailer coupling for motor vehicles, in particular, passenger vehicles, comprising a coupling ball, a ball neck, wherein the coupling neck can be pivoted with the coupling ball as a result of pivoting about a single pivot axis from an operative position into a rest position and vice versa, such that this no longer affects the ground clearance in its rest position it is suggested that a projection of a coupling ball central axis onto the vertical longitudinal plane undergo a rotation through an angle of at least 80.degree. during pivoting of the ball neck about the pivot axis from the operative position into the rest position and that a lowest point of ball neck and coupling ball in the rest position be at least at the level of a lowest point of the ball neck in the operative position.