B - Operations – Transporting – 62 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
62
D
B62D 53/08 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2334436
A fifth wheel hitch having a bifurcated hitch plate, a pair of king-pin- receiving pivotal jaws movable between closed and open positions, a jaw-securing yoke movable between a jaw-securing position straddling the jaws when in their closed position, and a jaw release position, a cam follower on the yoke, a cam pivotally attached to the hitch plate and having an inner configurated cam track and an outer configurated cam track, the inner configurated cam track being cooperable with the cam follower, whereby with pivoting of the cam follower will shift the yoke to the jaw release position, a cam actuation pull rod attached to the cam, spaced from the pivot pin, for pivoting the cam to thereby shift the yoke to the jaw release position, and a cam abutment pin on the yoke, spaced from the cam follower and cooperable with the outer cam track to inhibit the yoke from prematurely moving to the release position.
Polanic Richard T.
Terpsma Eric M.
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Holland Hitch Company
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