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US 2003/0111502 A1Published application
Bicycle transport rack
OwnerJack G. DuPlantisinventor
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Abstract
A bicycle transport rack for connection to a vehicle hitch and holding one or more bicycles having a hitch connection end and an outwardly extending extender bar from which mounting rod assemblies extend vertically. A bicycle is mounted in an upside down position on the rack by placing the bicycle seat mounting tube over and around the mounting rod assemblies. The bicycle is held onto the mounting rod assembly by lengthwise compression and outward expansion of expandable flanges against the internal surface of the bicycle seat mounting tube.
Claims20
A bicycle transport rack comprising:
- a hitch connector end having a hole for receiving a standard hitch pin;
- an extender bar having forward and rearward ends, said forward end rigidly mounted to extending rearward from said hitch connector end;
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- one or more mounting rod assemblies extending vertically upward from said extender bar.
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A bicycle transport rack comprising:
- a hitch connector end having a hole for receiving a standard hitch pin;
- an extender bar having forward and rearward ends, said forward end rigidly mounted to extending rearward from said hitch connector end;
- one or more mounting rod assemblies extending vertically upward from said extender bar, each of said mounting rod assemblies comprising:
- an internal threaded bolt having a lower end extending through and below said extender bar;
- a spacer rod placed around said internal threaded bolt and rising above said extender bar;
- a washer placed around said internal threaded bolt above said spacer rod;
- a flange assembly placed around said internal threaded bolt and above said washer;
- a top cap attached to a top end of said internal threaded bolt above said flange assembly;
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- a cam nut threaded onto said internal threaded bolt below said extender bar.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.