Pannier bag construction and method of attachment
AssigneeHine-Snowbridge, Inc.
InventorEdward K. Hine, Jr.
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Abstract
A pannier bag having means for attachment to a bicycle carrier which means include fasteners on the pannier bag for engagement with the upper portion of a bicycle carrier and, at the lower portion of the pannier bag, resilient members secured to the pannier bag adjacent the side edges thereof and a hook or other fastening member intermediate the resilient members, whereby the normally horizontal resilient members may be distended downwardly to securely fasten to a complementary member on the bicycle, thereby securely tensioning the upper fastener and the lower fastening member, the pannier bags further, when utilized in pairs, being joinable as a single luggage structure and having an unobstructed inner pocket adjacent the attachment means.
Claims13
A pannier bag, comprising:
- a bag structure having a rigid back wall;
- at least one downwardly-oriented upper hook member secured to the rear portion of the bag at the rigid back wall;
- a plurality of attachment points secured to the rear portion of the bag at the rigid back wall;
- at least one resilient member having at each end releasable securing means engaging one attachment point, the two attachment points engaged by the securing means being adjacent opposed sidewalls;
- and lower attachment means adapted to be secured to a lower portion of a bicycle carrier assembly and carried by the resilient member intermediate the attachment points of the resilient member to the rigid back wall, whereby the upper hook member may be secured to the upper portion of a bicycle carrier assembly and, upon downward distension of the resilient member, the attachment means secured to the lower portion of the bicycle carrier assembly to provide a stabilized attachment of the pannier bag to the bicycle carrier assembly.
A pair of pannier bags, each comprising:
- a bag structure having a rigid back wall;
- upperr attachment means adapted to be secured to the upper portion of a bicycle carrier;
- at least one resilient member disposed transversely across the rear portion of the bag and secured to the rigid back wall at one of a plurality of selectively engageable attachment points adjacent each side edge of the rigid back wall;
- attachment means carrier intermediately on the resilient member adapted to be secured to the lower portion of a bicycle carrier;
- and releasable interlocking means secured to the back side of the bag adapted to secure one bag to the other bag to form a unitary piece of luggage, whereby each bag may be secured to a bicycle carrier by engaging the upper attachment means, distending the resilient member downward and securing the lower attachment means in a stable biased manner, or, alternatively, the bags may be secured together to form a unitary piece of luggage with the distendable resilient member being positioned across the back side of each bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.