Storage carrier for vehicle exterior
OwnerAdelmer B. Lucasinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is storage carrier that is removably mountable to a vehicle spare wheel, the spare wheel including rubber tire and being mounted on the exterior of the vehicle rear wall and held spaced from and adjacent to the rear wall in an upright position. The carrier includes a wheel-mounting cap having walls that provide a downwardly facing cavity with a concave interior surface, and adapted to be received over the upper part of the spare wheel. A storage container is attached to the rear wall of the cap or is molded to be integral with the cap, and an adjustable strap extending from the cap can be used to embrace the periphery of the spare wheel tire to urge the cap downwardly upon the tire and to hold it in position on the tire.
Claims23
Carrier mount for attachment to an exteriorally mounted spare wheel of a vehicle, said spare wheel including a rubber tire and held in upright position adjacent to, and spaced from an exterior wall of said vehicle, said carrier mount including:
- a) a saddle cap having a front wall and a rear wall spaced from said front wall, and an intermediate wall adjoining said front and rear wall, said intermediate wall having spaced-apart first and second lower edges and providing a concave interior surface, said cap walls defining a downwardly facing cavity adapted to be received over an upper segment of said wheel, the rear wall of said cap adapted to support a means for holding articles;
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- b) adjustable strap means attached to said cap intermediate wall and adapted to extend downwardly from said lower edges, and whereby when said cap is received over said spare wheel said strap means is adapted to adjustably embrace a periphery of said tire.
Carrier removably mountable to the spare wheel of a vehicle, said spare wheel including rubber tire and supported in an upright position adjacent to and spaced from an exterior wall of said vehicle, said carrier comprising:
- a) saddle cap having spaced-apart front and rear walls and a curved middle wall adjoining front and rear walls, said cap walls defining a downward facing cavity, said curved wall providing a concave surface for engaging the periphery of said tire, said cavity adapted to receive an upper segment of said wheel, said curved wall having a first lower edge portion spaced apart from a second lower edge portion;
- b) adjustable strap means extendable from said first lower edge portion to said second lower edge portion and adapted to releasably embrace a peripheral portion of said tire when said wheel is received in said cavity, to urge said cap downwardly into engagement with said tire;
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- c) carrier means having spaced-apart walls that define a storage space for articles, and affixed to the rear wall of said cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.