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This invention relates to a towing apparatus for towing a disabled automobile. The towing apparatus includes an elongated boom having at each end portion a large rectangular aperture. A generally L-shaped wheel support member is also provided, having an elongated arm and a transverse wheel retainer

This invention relates to a towing apparatus for towing a disabled automobile. The towing apparatus includes an elongated boom having at each end portion a large rectangular aperture. A generally L-shaped wheel support member is also provided, having an elongated arm and a transverse wheel retainer forming an arcuate sheet. The cross-sectional width of the wheel support arm is substantially smaller than the width of the enlarged aperture of the elongated boom, so that the wheel support arm be freely engageable transversely through the boom enlarged aperture and freely slidable lengthwisely of the arm. An anchor member releasably anchors the wheel support arm orthogonally to the boom. The anchor member includes another wheel retainer, so that opposite lower sides of the disabled car wheel tire tread be taken in sandwich therebetween, thus positively locking the wheel to the towing apparatus.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A towing apparatus for lifting and towing a disabled vehicle, comprising:(a) all elongated boom having at each end portion thereof an elongated aperture, said boom having means intermediate its ends for connection with a transverse hitch beam;(b) a pair of wheel support members, eac

[ I claim:] [1.] A towing apparatus for lifting and towing a disabled vehicle, comprising:(a) all elongated boom having at each end portion thereof an elongated aperture, said boom having means intermediate its ends for connection with a transverse hitch beam;(b) a pair of wheel support members, each defining an elongated arm and a first upright wheel retainer mounted transversely thereof at an outer end of said elongated arm, said first wheel retainer for engaging a first lower sector portion of a tire tread from a corresponding wheel of the disabled vehicle; a said elongated arm releasably axially engaging through a corresponding said aperture of the elongated boom for free displacement both lengthwisely of said boom along said elongated aperture and transversely thereof; and(c) a pair of shoe assemblies, each releasably mountable in an operative position over a corresponding end portion of said boom, each shoe assembly comprising a main web, four releasably abutting a top surface of said boom end portion, a pair of downturned elbowed arms, transversely carried by said main web for releasably engaging a bottom edge portion of said wheel support elongated arm, a second upright wheel retainer carried laterally of said main web opposite said elbowed arms for engaging a second lower sector portion of the tread of the tire of the disabled vehicle, with the first and second lower sector portions of the tire treads being opposite one another, an elbowed tab, downwardly depending from said second wheel retainer for releasably engaging an edge portion of said top surface of said boom end portion, and a locking means for releasably interlocking said main web and said wheel support elongated arm in said operative position to prevent relative movement thereof, wherein the two wheels of the disabled vehicle are adapted to be positively anchored to said towing apparatus upon said shoe assemblies being brought to their said operative positions.