Improvements in and relating to transportation
AssigneeDLIP Limited
InventorsDavid Tien Ang Lim, Jason Paul Rogers, Graham Brewster
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Abstract
A protective case for a bicycle which is an enclosed hollow rectangular cuboid including a top half; a lower half; wherein said top and lower halves releasably connect together to form the enclosed cuboid; and wherein each of said halves has: rigid outer wall sections for each surface of the cuboid so that the cuboid is fully enclosed; wherein at least the lower half has a stand attached thereto and said stand being adapted to connect to a bicycle frame of the bicycle and said case being adapted to support said bicycle when the stand is in, either: a non-extended position; and an extended position.
Claims9
(canceled)
A protective case for a bicycle which has a top case part and a lower case part each case part having one or more wall sections substantially defining an interior area on the inner surface of said wall(s);
- wherein when said top and lower case parts are releasably connected to one another they form an at least substantially enclosed space;
- and wherein the lower half case part of the protective case includes a stand attached thereto said stand adapted to connect to a bicycle frame of the bicycle, said stand extendable from a non-extended position without being detached from the lower case part, and:
- with the top and lower case parts connected to one another and with the stand attached to the lower case part in the non-extended position, the case is configured for storage and transportation of the bicycle with wheels of the bicycle removed from the bicycle frame;
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- with the top case part removed from the top of the lower case part and with the stand attached to the lower case part in the extended position, the stand extends from the lower case part to support the fully assembled bicycle outside of the lower case part, the case is configured as a freestanding mobile workshop for working on the fully assembled bicycle.
A method of converting a protective case for a bicycle between a transport configuration and a work configuration, comprising the steps of:
- a) connecting a top case part and a lower case part of a protective case on top of one another and ensuring a telescopic stand attached to the lower case part holding said bicycle is in a retracted state:
- to effect the transport configuration for storage or transportation of the bicycle with wheels of the bicycle removed from a frame of the bicycle;
- b) disconnecting, the top case part and lower case part of the protective case;
- c) connecting the top case part and lower case part of the protective case to one another to be side by side and extending the telescopic stand to its fully extended state:
- to effect the work configuration and support the fully assembled bicycle outside of the lower case part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.