Motorcycle safety-release back rest
OwnerGregory K. Schultzinventor
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Abstract
Ordinarily uncovered vehicles on which the driver is at least substantially exposed and unenclosed, such as motorcycles and their likes and equivalents, are provided with a safety-release back rest rig that is comprised of and contains a vest-like garment for the driver to wear, which body-retaining garment is strapped ahead of the driver in sling-like fashion to the vehicle structure so as to provide secure and comfortable, lean-back support for the drive during running of the vehicle while at the same time being automatically disengageable from the vehicle structure when the driver dismounts and/or has at least a portion of his or her weight removed or uplifted from and/or off the seat for mounting the driver on the vehicle.
Claims51
A safety-release back rest rig assembly for a motorcycle having forward or stem and rearward or stern terminations and like or equivalent vehicles(s) comprising, in cooperative inter-related associated and combination:
- (a) a basic vehicle body structure;
- (b) means on said vehicle body structure (a) for seating a driver of said vehicle in appropriately mounted driving disposition on and for said vehicle;
- (c) vest-like and equivalent garment apparel means for wearing by said driver of (b), said vest-like means being adapted to well receive and encasingly hold said driver;
- (d) at least a single safety strap means attachable and securable at or about its rearwardly-extending end in sling-like, forwardly-disposable fashion to the frontal part of said vest-like garment means (c) for wearing by said driver;
- (e) a safety strap(s) means holding and releasing component unit secured fixedly on said body structure of the motorcycle forward of said seating means (b) for said driver, which component upon and by electrical energization is adapted to
- (f) receive, anchor and lockingly-engage the forwardly-disposable portion at or near its forward end of each of said therein plugged-in safety strap(s) means (d) when said component (e) is in a "locking" and safety strap-retaining position;
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- (g) release and freely disconnect, disanchor and disengage said forwardly-disposable end of each of said safety strap(s) means (d) when said component (e) is in an "open" and safety strap-releasing position;
- (h) an electrical switch and circuitry switching unit associated with said seating means (b) responsive for "on" and "off" setting purposes to applied driver weight when one is sitting thereupon and electrically connected with said component unit (e) which is adapted to pass adequate electrical energy by means of interconnecting electrical circuitry;
- (i) to cause said component unit in said cooperative rig combination assembly to firmly and strongly anchor, engage and lock to close and secure any portion of said forwardly-disposable end(s) of any and all of said safety strap(s) means (d) therein plugged when at least a predetermined portion, if not all, of the total supported weight of said driver in (b) and (c) is mounted and disposed and resting upon said seating means (b);
- and, conversely
- (j) to cause said component unit (e) to quickly, freely and easily disanchor, disengage and open to free and unsecured liberated disposition any portion of said forwardly-disposable end(s) of any and all of said safety strap(s) means (d) therein plugged when more than said predetermined portion, if not all, of the total supported weight of said driver in (b) and (c) is dismounted and neither disposed nor resting upon said seating means (b).
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