Electrical mounting bracket for hitch

摘要

A mounting bracket cantilevers a support arm off the side of a receiver tube of a hitch, using flats on the receiver tube or receiver tube lip to support the cantilevered weight. The support arm is configured to receive and support one or more mating electrical connection structures, with a plug/unplug direction matching the fore/aft direction of the towing vehicle. Flanges of the mounting bracket are pulled toward each other around the receiving tube using mounting bolts which extend on right and left sides of the receiving tube. The mounting bracket is preferably formed from stamped and bent sheet metal.

主权项

1. An electrical mounting bracket comprising:
a receiving tube opening sized and shaped to allow access therethrough to an interior of a hitch receiving tube, the interior of the hitch receiving tube defining a generally horizontally extending recess for longitudinally receiving a removeable hitching structure, the horizontally extending recess defining a hitch receiving tube axis; a first flange for abutting a first exterior flat of the hitch receiving tube; a second flange opposing the first flange, the second flange for abutting a second exterior flat of the hitch receiving tube; a side arm extending in a cantilevered fashion in a sideways direction away from the receiving tube opening; and a mounting structure adapted for receiving an electrical socket of a towing vehicle electrical connection on the side arm at a cantilevered location displaced sideways relative to the receiving tube opening, the mounting structure defining a direction of socket connection/disconnection which is parallel to the hitch receiving tube axis.