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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2008
Jay Hesse, Pender, NE (US);
Steven R. Lewis, Yankton, SD (US);
Brent Culbertson, Dakota City, NE (US);
Jay Hesse, Pender, NE (US);
Steven R. Lewis, Yankton, SD (US);
Brent Culbertson, Dakota City, NE (US);
Automatic Equipment Manufacturing Company, Pender, NE (US);
Abstract
A torsionally-biased, shock-absorbing fifth wheel hitch includes a first mounting mechanism removably and non-rotatably mounting a lower frame portion thereof to the bed of a towing vehicle; an upper frame portion; a second mounting mechanism with a pair of opposing resilient members pivotally mounting the upper frame portion about a horizontally-oriented transverse hitch axis relative to the lower frame portion, the second mounting mechanism having an inactivated configuration wherein the upper frame member is not pivotally biased about the transverse hitch axis relative to the lower frame member and an activated configuration wherein the upper frame member is pivotally biased about the transverse hitch axis relative to the lower frame member; and a fifth wheel hitch mechanism mounted to the upper frame portion.