Trailer hitch receiver mounted collapsible workbench

Abstract

A workbench assembly that may be reversibly mounted to a trailer hitch receiver of a vehicle with a stabilizer assembly that is also reversibly mounted to the trailer hitch receiver that functions to hold workbench assembly stable and free from motion relative to the trailer hitch receiver. Workbench assembly is collapsible or foldable so that it may be collapsed and folded tightly against the back of the vehicle during vehicle travel and unfolded or extended backwards from the vehicle during use of the workbench. Workbench may have rounded edges for clamping thereto by special clamps. Workbench may have one or more locking groove in its surfaces for locking or clamping thereto by special clamps. When not in use, workbench assembly may stored or mounted on the shop wall by detaching it from the trailer hitch receiver on the vehicle and remounting to a special wall mount assembly attached to the wall.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a workbench assembly, and, in particular, to a collapsible workbench assembly capable of being mounted to a trailer hitch receiver on any vehicle including pickup trucks.[0003]The rear of a vehicle or tailgate of a pickup truck has long been found to be useful as a workstation. The present invention greatly improves on the usefulness of this workstation by providing a collapsible workbench capable of being mounted inside a trailer hitch receiver on a vehicle where the collapsible workbench may be folded upwards during vehicle transport and folded downwards when the vehicle is at rest to form a workstation with a wide workbench with tracking and locking groves used for mounting a wide array of mechanical such as a vise or similar and a wide array of power tools such as a chop saw or similar.[0004]2. Description of Related Art[0005]There are many tailgate workbenches or workbenches that ar...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]It is an aspect of workbench to have a special cross-sectional shape so that the edges, upper surface, and / or lower surface of workbench function in conjunction with commercially available clamping systems and / or individual clamps to provide a workbench or platform to conveniently and securely clamp power tools, mechanical tools, and / or work objects that are fitted with the commercially available clamping systems and / or individual clamps.

[0009]It is an aspect of the support framework of workbench to have a lower articulation point and an upper articulation point, each being an articulation point in the support framework with an axis of rotation that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the workbench, lower articulation point allowing the workbench to be rotated downward to reduce the height of the workbench and / or rotated upwards to increase the height of the workbench, and upper articulation point allowing the workbench to be rotated into a horizontal and level position at any height or degree of rotation of the lower articulation.

Problems solved by technology

However, there are no tailgate receiver mounted workbenches in the prior art and certainly none that include the structure described below.

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