US 5,226,846 AGranted

Sound producing device for use on a bicycle

OwnerJames J. Onoriinventor

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Abstract

A sound producing device, to be attached to the frame of a bicycle adjacent the wheels, the device including a clamp member having a pair of clamp arms, each arm including a clamp head and a handle portion at opposite ends thereof, and being hingedly attached to one another at respective mid-sections thereof such that a biasing force exerted on the clamp arms will push the clamp heads towards one another requiring that a compressing force be exerted on the handle portions in order to pull the clamp heads apart when engaging or disengaging the device. Located in an interior of each of the clamp heads is a gripper insert which is formed of a high friction, deformable material such that the clamp member will not slip or rotate about the frame of the bicycle during use, and such that frames of varying dimensions may be completely engaged by the gripper inserts, thereby enabling rigid, yet flexible flaps protruding from a distal end of clamp arms to contact the moving spokes of the bicycle wheel resulting in the generation of a motor-like sound.

Claims11

Dependent claims

To be attached to the frame of a bicycle, the bicycle frame being of varying dimensions at different sections thereof and the bicycle including at least one tire having a plurality of spokes which move during rotation of the tire, a sound producing device comprising:

a clamp member, said clamp member including a pair of arms,
said arms including a clamp head and a handle portion at opposite ends thereof,
attachment means structured and disposed to pivotally attach said arms to one another at a mid-section thereof,
biasing means structured and disposed to exert a biasing force on said arms such that said clamp heads are normally drawn to one another defining a clamping position,
a gripper means disposed in an interior of each of said clamp heads, said gripper means being formed of a high friction, resilient material so as to substantially conform to the varying dimensions of the bicycle frame, while preventing moving of said clamped member relative to the bicycle frame during use,
at least one substantially rigid, yet flexible flap protruding from a distal end, adjacent said clamp head, of at least one of said arms, said flap being substantially elongate so as to contact the moving spokes of the bicycle, and
an elongate groove disposed in said distal end of each of said clamp arms, said elongate groove being structured and disposed receiving an edge of said flap securely therein.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.