Bicycle parking structure
AssigneePalmer Group LLC
InventorGeoff Palmer
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Abstract
A bicycle parking structure that is adapted to be mounted on and affixed to a vertical post wherein the mechanism for affixing the parking structure to the post includes a security rod that is hidden and inaccessible.
Claims11
A bicycle parking structure adapted to be mounted on and affixed to a generally vertical post wherein the post has a post vertical axis, a major diameter, a post through-bore generally transverse to the vertical axis, and an anchored lower end comprising:
- a tubular sleeve member concentrically disposed about the post having a sleeve transverse through-bore with at least one aperture that is aligned with the post transverse through-bore when said sleeve member is so disposed;
- a first tubular purchase member having two ends affixed to said sleeve member and defining with said sleeve member a first enclosed space wherein one of said affixed ends is located over and surrounds said at least one sleeve member aperture, further wherein said first tubular purchase member has an access aperture aligned with said sleeve through-bore and the post through-bore;
- a cap member having a top member dimensioned to engage said sleeve member and a lock member that has a lock aperture wherein said lock member extends along the post, and said lock aperture aligns with said sleeve member through-bore, the post through-bore and said purchase member access bore when said top member engages said sleeve member;
- a security rod disposed entirely within said bicycle parking structure, and in said first tubular purchase member, in the post through-bore, and in said at least one sleeve member aperture, and said cap lock member aperture.
A bicycle parking structure adapted to be mounted on a vertical post wherein the post has a vertical axis, an anchored lower end, a major diameter and a through-bore generally transverse to the vertical axis comprising:
- a tubular sleeve member concentrically disposed about the post wherein when said sleeve member is so disposed about the post, said sleeve member extends above the post and wherein said sleeve member has a transverse through-bore with two apertures that are aligned with the post transverse through-bore when said sleeve member is so disposed;
- a tubular purchase member having two ends affixed to said sleeve member and defining a first enclosed space wherein one of said affixed ends surrounds one end of said sleeve member through-bore, further wherein said first tubular purchase member has an access aperture aligned with said sleeve member through-bore and the post through-bore;
- a security rod disposed by way of said access aperture in the through-bore of the post and the through-bore of said sleeve member and entirely within said parking structure where it is hidden from view.
A bicycle parking structure adapted to be mounted on a vertical post wherein the post has an anchored lower end and a generally transverse through-bore comprising:
- a tubular sleeve member concentrically disposed about the post wherein said sleeve member has a transverse through-bore that is aligned with the post transverse through-bore when said sleeve member is so disposed;
- a locking mechanism affixing said tubular sleeve member to the post wherein said locking mechanism engages the post through-bore and said sleeve member through-bore and is entirely within the parking structure where it is hidden from view and inaccessible from outside said parking structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.