Patents by Inventor Heron Longoria

Heron Longoria 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).

  • Patent number: 4576395
    Abstract: An upstanding support is provided and open at its lower end for snug downward telescoping over an upwardly projecting hitch ball supported from a hitch tongue of a width greater than the diameter of the ball. The lower end of the upstanding support is downwardly abuttable against the upwardly facing surfaces of the hitch tongue spaced immediately outward of an upstanding cylindrical zone containing the outer periphery of the hitch ball and the support includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced clamp screws threadingly supported therefrom with the innermost ends of the clamp screws being clampingly engageable with the reduced diameter shank portion of the hitch ball spaced closely above the hitch tongue. The upper end of the upstanding support mounts a horizontal mounting plate therefrom which may be utilized to support a plurality of different objects such as a grinder, workbench, hoist, cycle carrier, sign, floodlight, pipe rack and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Inventor: Heron Longoria