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A demountable carrier for attachment to the tongue of a vehicle trailer hitch. The carrier includes a hollow socket member for attachment to the tongue, with the axis of the bore of the socket member generally parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the long axis of the tongue of the hitch. An L

A demountable carrier for attachment to the tongue of a vehicle trailer hitch. The carrier includes a hollow socket member for attachment to the tongue, with the axis of the bore of the socket member generally parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the long axis of the tongue of the hitch. An L-shaped plug member has one leg thereof dimensioned to be closely received in the bore of the socket member, and aligned apertures in both the socket member and the plug member are receptive of a releasable pin to retain the leg of the plug member in the bore. The second leg is provided with a support at its free end to attach a carrier unit. The cross-sections of the plug member and the bore of the socket member are selected whereby the plug member can be moved from a deployed position to extend behind the vehicle, or a stored position above the trailer hitch. The plug member also permits transfer to another vehicle having a complimentary socket member. The invention is described, in one embodiment relative to a wheel chair carrier.

대표청구항 ▼

A demountable carrier for attachment to a trailer hitch mounted upon a vehicle and having a flat tongue extending from such vehicle substantially parallel to ground, such tongue provided with an aperture, which comprises: a hollow elongated socket member having a bore of a selected cross-section and

A demountable carrier for attachment to a trailer hitch mounted upon a vehicle and having a flat tongue extending from such vehicle substantially parallel to ground, such tongue provided with an aperture, which comprises: a hollow elongated socket member having a bore of a selected cross-section and being provided with at least one pair of aligned apertures in opposite surfaces oriented perpendicular to said bore, said socket member being provided with fastening means for passing through such aperture in such tongue to secure said socket member to such tongue in an orientation substantially perpendicular to a long axis of such tongue and parallel to such ground; an L-shaped plug member having first and second legs substantially at right angles to each other, said first leg having a selected cross section and length to be closely received in said socket member, said second leg having a free end to support a carrier unit, said first leg provided with at least one aperture therethrough oriented perpendicularly to said first leg whereby said aperture in said first leg is aligned with said apertures in said socket member when said first leg is inserted in said socket member; a removable pin for passing through selected aligned apertures in said first leg and said socket member; wherein the number of apertures in said socket member and said first leg of said plug member is selected whereby said pin is receivable in aligned apertures when said second leg is either substantially vertically oriented or substantially horizontally oriented with respect to said ground; and wherein said selected cross sections of said first leg of said plug and said bore of said socket member prevent rotation between said plug member and said socket member and permit said first leg to be inserted into said bore in said two orientations of said second leg substantially perpendicular to each other.