Torsionally resilient structure for a sidecar
OwnerJohn J. Chikainventor
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Abstract
An apparatus of torsionally resilient sidecar structure and resilient structure for connecting it to any type of a two-wheel land vehicle, be it pedal-powered, motor-driven or any combination of propulsion; the sidecar operatively attachable to the two-wheel vehicle by a plurality of torsionally resilient connecting members, each of them bent to form a longer mid-portion and two shorter end-portions, the longer mid-portions positioned substantially horizontally and transversely between the frame of the two-wheel vehicle and the sidecar, thus determining the overall width of the combined vehicle, and their shorter end-portions operatively attached on one side to the structural members of the two-wheel vehicle and on the other side to the structural members of the sidecar assembly.
Claims64
In combination a coupling structure to operatively couple a sidecar to existing two-wheel tandem-type land vehicle, the structure comprising plural, rigid and torsionally resilient connecting members, each bent to form a longer mid-portion and two shorter end-portions;
- their longer mid-portions positioned substantially horizontally and transversely between the two-wheel vehicle and the sidecar, their shorter end-portions on one side aligning with and operatively attached at two points to rigid structural members of said two-wheel vehicle and their shorter end portions at the opposite side attached to rigid structural members of said sidecar.
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