Reconfigurable arm for a bicycle rack
AssigneeKuat Innovation LLC
InventorsLuke Kuschmeader, Austin Harrill, Jordan Bowles, Aaron Houston, Jonathan Graif
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Abstract
A bicycle rack is described with a platform for supporting a bicycle and an arm for securing the bicycle to the platform. The arm rotates or pivots from a closed position adjacent to the platform, to an open position to allow the loading of a bicycle. The arm may also be pivoted past the horizontal to an over-center position and further past horizontal to a lowered position. The arm may be provided with a latch mechanism to limit the rotation of the arm in certain ranges of rotation. The arm may also be provided with an actuator to power the movement of the arm in certain ranges of rotation.
Claims9
An equipment rack for a bicycle, the equipment rack comprising:
- a platform for supporting a bicycle;
- an arm pivotally attached to the platform, the arm for securing the bicycle on the platform;
- an actuator attached to the arm and the platform, the actuator configured to rotate the arm from a closed position to an open position,
- wherein the arm is rotatable from the open position to an over-center position;
- and
- wherein the arm is rotatable from the over-center position to a lowered position,
- wherein the arm in the lowered position is rotated farther from the closed position than the arm in the over-center position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.