Patents by Inventor Leonard Meyerhofer

Leonard Meyerhofer 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: 5788257
    Abstract: A fifth wheel trailer hitch adaptor apparatus including a fifth wheel device including a housing having a stem projecting therefrom for telescopical receipt in a rearwardly opening square tube of a towing vehicle and having a fifth wheel yoke plate formed with a rearwardly extending, open ended, laterally outwardly diverging passage. An adaptor plate is provided and includes on its top side an upstanding hitch ball for receipt in the ball socket of a trailer and has a king pin on the bottom side thereof for sliding receipt into the passage for hitching to such fifth wheel device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Inventor: Leonard Meyerhofer