Bicycle carrying rack
OwnerDavid M. Egglestoninventor
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Abstract
A multiple bicycle carrying rack comprising a bed or base member having raised grooved tracks of alternately staggered heights onto which bicycles are rolled and handle-bargripping clamps which are lowered from an overlying support to forceably engage the handlebars and thereby restrain the movement of the bicycles in any direction. The clamps are staggered longitudinally of the rails, which in conjunction with the vertically staggered wheel grooves permits very close lateral spacing of the bicycles, an important feature inasmuch as the rack will be made into, or transported on, a trailer. Double locking of the bicycles is accomplished by locks for the handlebar clamps and cables passing from the base member through the bicycle frames to the clamp locks.
Claims8
A rack for carrying at least one bicycle or the like comprising:
- a. a base member defining a plurality of upwardly open elongated parallel troughs each dimensioned to seat the wheels of a bicycle placed in longitudinal alignment therein, and said troughs being vertically staggered to prevent interference of the handlebars of adjacent bicycles carried in said rack;
- b. a plurality of clamp elements and means mounting same to said base member in spaced relation above said trough;
- c. each of said clamp elements being staggered relative to adjacent clamp elements and capable of securely and releasibly engaging a structural member of a bicycle resting in a respective one of said troughs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.