Amphibious bicycle
OwnerYaichi Watanabeinventor
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Abstract
An amphibious vehicle comprises a bicycle wherein the ends of the front wheel shaft and the rear wheel hub shaft are laterally outwardly projected; a water-surface floating apparatus composed of floats each being provided with a foldable air-tight bag and float mounting members therefor loosely rotatable on each of the opposite sides of the bicycle on the front wheel shaft and the rear wheel shaft; a water-surface propulsion apparatus driven through rotation of the rear wheel; and a water-surface steering apparatus mounted on the front wheel.
Claims7
An amphibious vehicle comprising a bicycle having a body and ground engaging front and rear wheels for running on land, front wheel shaft means and rear wheel shaft means respectively on said body, each of said shaft means having opposite end portions projecting transversely outwardly of the body, a float mounting frame freely rotatably mounted on each end of each shaft means, and floats detachably securable one to each float mounting frame, each float being an inflatable air-tight bag capable of being inflated into a ball-like shape, each of said float mounting frames comprising a cage within which part of the inflated float may be disposed, and with each of said float mounting frames including a flanged sleeve which surrounds the associated shaft means with said cage connected with said flanged sleeve, and means for mounting each cage on the respective flanged sleeve with the direction of each of the cages reversed so that each cage may be accommodated inwardly of the end of the associated shaft means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.