Filing Information

Inventor(s)	Nancy May ·
Assignee(s)	None listed in document.  View assignee updates
Primary Examiner	Thomas Price ·
Application Number	US10176784
Filing date	06/24/2002
Issue date	06/29/2004
Prior Publication Data	US20030233987 - 12/25/2003
Predicted expiration date	06/24/2022
U.S. Classifications	119/400  · 296/198  · 280/851  ·
International Classifications	--
Kind Code	B2
International Classifications	280851 · 280847 · 280849 · 2961801 · 2961804 · 296181 · 296182 · 296198 · 296199 · 296 372 · 296 373 · 119400 · 119405 ·

Patent Family

Abstract

A horse trailer having a cover plate releasably secured to a fender such that the cover plate will provide a shield extending downwardly from the fender to cover the wheel well area and wheels against pawing and kicking of horses tied to the side of the trailer and extending upwardly from the fender to provide a support for an animal feed trough.

Independent Claims | See all claims (7)

1. 1. A horse trailer with a box having spaced apart side walls, a front wall, a floor interconnecting said spaced apart walls and front walls, a door providing closure between said spaced apart side walls at an end of said trailer spaced from and opposite said front wall, an under carriage supporting said box, a tongue fixed to and projecting from said undercarriage, a hitch fixed to said tongue and at least one wheel on each side of said box, under a fender, each said wheel being mounted to said under carriage; and the improvement comprising a protective cover assembly for each said wheel at one side of said box, said protective cover assembly including a mounting plate overlying said fender; means releasably securing said mounting plate to said fender; and a protective cover extending downwardly from said mounting plate and across said wheel at said one side of said box to adjacent a bottom of each said wheel at said one side of said box.