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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
May. 12, 2011
James Huston, Yankton, SD (US);
Steven Goodman, Pender, NE (US);
David Merchant, Lincoln, NE (US);
Leslie Roeber, Emerson, NE (US);
Neil Wagner, Winsive, NE (US);
James Huston, Yankton, SD (US);
Steven Goodman, Pender, NE (US);
David Merchant, Lincoln, NE (US);
Leslie Roeber, Emerson, NE (US);
Neil Wagner, Winsive, NE (US);
Automatic Equipment Manufacturing Company, Pender, NE (US);
Abstract
A tow bar includes a towing hitch member including a pintle hitch and secured to a towing vehicle; a towed hitch member secured to a vehicle to the towed; a head member with a lunette ring; a pair of tow bar legs, each including a proximal end including an outer member with a distal end, and a distal end including an inner member with a proximal end telescopingly displaceable within the distal end of the outer member; a leg connector mechanism pivotally connecting the proximal ends of the tow bar legs to the head member; towed connector elements secured to the distal ends of the tow bar legs and structured to releasably connect the tow bar legs to the towed hitch member; and a locking mechanism structured to automatically and releasably lock each of the tow bar legs in either a stored configuration or a deployed configuration.