Patents by Inventor Brigitte Paula Strecker Burns

Brigitte Paula Strecker Burns has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fifth wheel trailer hitch with locking mechanism
    Patent number: 8419038
    Abstract: A fifth wheel trailer hitch with locking mechanism that includes a pin that extends axially from a pivotal mounting of a platform of a trailer tow bar. The pin is preferably cylindrical and is grooved circumferentially adjacent to its bottom end for fitting into an a key way forward end lip formed in a mounting plate that is attached to a truck bed for prohibiting the pin from lifting from the key way. The pin includes a plug that, by turning a cam rod journaled through the pin, will extend or retract axially from a pin center opening to fit into a plug hole formed in the mounting plate in the center of the key way forward end, preventing, when extended, the pin from sliding therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Inventors: Darrel J. Burns, Brigitte Paula Strecker Burns
  • Fifth wheel trailer hitch with locking mechanism
    Publication number: 20130009386
    Abstract: A fifth wheel trailer hitch with locking mechanism that includes a pin that extends axially from a pivotal mounting of a platform of a trailer tow bar. The pin is preferably cylindrical and is grooved circumferentially adjacent to its bottom end for fitting into an a key way forward end lip formed in a mounting plate that is attached to a truck bed for prohibiting the pin from lifting from the key way. The pin includes a plug that, by turning a cam rod journaled through the pin, will extend or retract axially from a pin center opening to fit into a plug hole formed in the mounting plate in the center of the key way forward end, preventing, when extended, the pin from sliding therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Darrel J. Burns, Brigitte Paula Strecker Burns