Traffic signaling attachment device for bicycles
OwnerHenry Margiloffinventor
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Abstract
A traffic signaling attachment device for bicycles has a supporting framework securable at one end to the bicycle post clamp, pivotally journaled along which framework is a control rod having a manually actuable handle at the front end just forward of the seat, and a perpendicularly outwardly-extending signal arm at the other end adapted for left or right turn signaling, or caution signaling, upon rotary manipulation of the handle.
Claims9
A traffic signaling attachment device for bicycles or the like comprising, in combination, an elongated supporting framework, means for attaching said supporting framework to a bicycle so as to extend rearwardly of the bicycle seat above the rear bicycle wheel, an elongated control rod journaled along the length of said supporting framework, an elongated signal arm member fixed with respect to an extending substantially perpendicularly outwardly of said control rod, means yieldingly constraining said control rod so that said signal arm member normally extended in a vertically upward direction, and resilient handle means connected to the control rod for turning said control rod about its longitudinal axis for moving said signal arm member, selectively, to and between opposed, sidewardly outwardly-extending positions for signaling traffic, said signal arm member being of a resilient and collapsible material, thereby enabling its bending to minimize obstruction to the bicycle rider upon his mounting and demounting the bicycle.
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