B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
D
214/71
B60D 1/00 (2006.01) B60P 3/12 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1299529
70766-4 ABSTRACT A vehicle towing device has an elongate stinger adapted for pivotal attachment at one end to a towing vehicle and a rigid transverse bar that is fixed to extend horizontally at the rear end of the stinger. At each end of this bar is a rearwardly directed wedge shaped scuff plate. A mounting element at each end of the transverse bar is pivotable about a first axis parallel to the bar and located in front thereof, and about a second axis at right angles to the first axis. The mounting element extends rearwardly in bearing engagement with the upper side of the transverse bar. An elongate retaining arm has an elongate shank passing through a tubular socket formed in the mounting element to extend rearwardly therefrom, and terminates in a wheel-engaging portion. The arrangement is such that in use the stinger can be lowered into engagement with the ground and then moved rear- wardly to bring the scuff plates into engagement with the wheels of a vehicle to be towed, whereupon each mounting element can be pivoted to swing the wheel engaging portion of the associated retaining arm into engagement behind the corresponding vehicle wheel such that the latter is cradled between such wheel engaging portion and the opposed scuff plate, whereupon the towing device can be raised to lift the wheels and thus the end of the vehicle to be towed, the weight of the vehicle thus supported acting to urge the mounting element into engagement with the upper surface of the transverse bar.
573271
Alberta Motor Association
Smart & Biggar
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