Bicycle carrier
AssigneeProStor, Inc.
InventorSofie Brutsaert
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Abstract
A bicycle carrier having coupling means for mounting to a vehicle, a hinge shaft which, at a distance from the geometric centre of gravity of the coupling means, is connected to the coupling means; a bicycle support which can hinge around the hinge shaft between, on the one hand, a load position whereby a free end of the bicycle support faces towards the ground and, on the other hand, a transport position whereby the aforementioned free end of the bicycle support faces away from the ground; whereby the bicycle carrier is provided with locking means for locking the rotation of the bicycle support in the transport position.
Claims16
A bicycle carrier, comprising coupling means for mounting to a vehicle, wherein the bicycle carrier is further provided with:
- a hinge shaft which, at a distance from a geometric center of gravity of the coupling means, is connected to the coupling means;
- a bicycle support which can hinge around the hinge shaft between, on one hand, a load position whereby a free end of the bicycle support faces towards the ground and, on the other hand, a transport position whereby the free end of the bicycle support is spaced apart from the ground;
- whereby the bicycle carrier is provided with a locking means for locking a rotation of the bicycle support in the transport position and whereby a hingeable connection of the bicycle support with the hinge shaft is located on a first side at the distance from a virtual vertical plane that extends parallel to the hinge shaft and through the geometric center of gravity of the coupling means, and the free end of the bicycle support which in the load position faces towards the ground is located on a second side of the virtual vertical plane through the geometric center of gravity of the coupling means.
A bicycle carrier configured to be mounted to a vehicle, the bicycle carrier comprising:
- a tube frame configured to be mounted to the vehicle;
- an arm coupled to the tube frame;
- a hinge shaft connected to the tube frame by the arm, the hinge shaft is spaced apart a distance from a geometric center of gravity of the tube frame;
- a bicycle support hingedly connected to the hinge shaft for rotation between a load position and a transport position, in the load position a free end of the bicycle support faces towards the ground and in the transport position the free end of the bicycle support is spaced apart from the ground;
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- a locking rod connected to the arm, the locking rod moveable between a first position and a second positon, in the first position the locking rod is configured to support the bicycle support in the transport position to inhibit movement of the bicycle support from the transport position towards the load position, and in the second position the locking rod no longer supports the bicycle support in the transport position to permit movement of the bicycle support from the transport position towards the load position,
- wherein a hingeable connection of the bicycle support with the hinge shaft is located on a first side at the distance from a virtual vertical plane that extends parallel to the hinge shaft and through the geometric center of gravity of the tube frame, and the free end of the bicycle support is located on a second side of the virtual vertical plane through the geometric center of gravity of the tube frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.