Patents Assigned to Automatic Equipment Manufacting Company
  • Patent number: 8328222
    Abstract: An anti-sway, tongue-weight equalizing hitch for a trailer having a hitch ball socket; a shank structured for releasably connecting to a towing vehicle; a hitch head secured to the shank and having a longitudinal axis, a hitch ball with a tow axis on the longitudinal axis; an elevating mechanism for adjusting the relative elevations of the hitch head and the trailer tongue; a leveling mechanism for vertically-orienting the tow axis; right and left spring bars mounted to the hitch head to pivot about opposing right and left rearwardly-tilted stabilizing axes disposed in opposing vertically-oriented pivot axis planes spaced laterally and equidistantly outwardly from the longitudinal axis; and right and left suspension mechanisms tensionally suspending distal ends of the spring bars wherein distal ends thereof are normally spaced laterally and equidistantly outwardly from the respective vertical-oriented pivot axis planes in an equilibrium configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Automatic Equipment Manufacting Company
    Inventors: Leslie Roeber, Paul Choquette
  • Patent number: D546735
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Automatic Equipment Manufacting Company
    Inventors: Merton Hahne, Mark Penlerick, Anthony Crippen