A gooseneck ball extender is designed to mate with a center socket and receivers mounted to a towing vehicle and provide a gooseneck ball that is offset from the center socket. The extender has a cylindrical shaft that can be releasably secured to the center socket. The extender has fore and aft base plates that have puck locks that can be releasably secured to the receivers. The puck locks are rotatable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The extender has parallel rails that are affixed to the fore and aft base plates that can receive a fifth wheel coupler. The extender can switch between a gooseneck attachment and a fifth wheel/kingpin attachment without having to remove the fifth wheel. The fifth wheel frame is supported by the fixed rails. The fifth wheel frame can be secured to the gooseneck frame in a first position where it at least partially blocks the gooseneck ball and a second position where the gooseneck ball is useable. If the convertible coupler is used with a puck system, a puck-to-rail frame is attached to the towing vehicle and the gooseneck frame is affixed to the puck-to-rail frame.
GOOSENECK PUCK EXTENDER AND CONVERTIBLE FIFTH WHEEL HITCH
2025-05-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60D Fahrzeugverbindungen , VEHICLE CONNECTIONS |