Anti-rattle device for a trailer hitch
CA 2203386 C · Owner: Draw-Tite, Inc. · Inventors: Young, David A.
Overview
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An anti-rattle device (10) for a receiver trailer hitch (30) for reducing undesirable movement, noise, vibration and shock between the shank (40) of a hitch mount (34) and the tubular receiver (32) in which the mount (34) is removably secured by a cross pin (36) includes an elastomeric deformable member (14) deformed into frictional engagement with the shank (40) and the receiver (32) by a slidable plate (12) tensioned against the deformable member (14) by threaded eyebolts (16 18) anchored to the cross pin (36).
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 22, 1996 and granted June 6, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 22, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 22, 2018.
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