US 5,244,101 AGranted

Stainless-steel bicycle parking rack with lock protector

OwnerJohn D. Palmer, Geoffrey D. Palmerinventors

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Abstract

A bicycle parking rack that encloses and secures a bicycle left crankarm (40) within a chamber (12), prevents its removal from the bicycle and provides for multiple locking mechanisms within protective, stainless-steel plating. The baseplate (10) is affixed to a permanent vertical or horizontal surface by welding or non-removable fasteners. The chamber rises to a height just above the bicycle bottom bracket shell (52). A door (16) on the chamber allows entry of the crankarm. A padlock, cylinder lock, or both, are placed inside the chamber. They lock an upper hasp plate (34a), welded to the chamber, to a lower hasp plate (34b), welded to the door. A U-lock is used by inserting it through the left side of door and chamber. The upper U-lock shackle leg (46a) is inserted through the U-lock upper door hole (28a) and U-lock upper chamber hole (28b). The lower U-lock shackle leg (46b) is inserted through the U-lock lower chamber hole (30a) and U-lock lower baffle hole (30b). A bicycle cable is utilized to secure the bicycle's wheels by placing the cable ends over a cable end hitch (32) before locking the door.

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Dependent claims

A lockable bicycle rack formed to act in concert with an independent lock assembly for releasably securing a bicycle thereto, said lock assembly including a securing bolt member, said bicycle rack comprising:

a base member defining a receiving slot formed and dimensioned for receipt of a portion of the bicycle in said receiving slot, said base member further including a bolt port extending through a portion thereof and formed to slidably receive the securing bolt member of said lock assembly therethrough, and
a cover door assembly formed and dimensioned to cooperate with said base member and including an aligning port extending through a portion thereof, said cover door assembly being movable between a selected one of:
(i) a non-engaging condition where said cover door assembly is positioned for installation and removal of said portion of said bicycle into an out of said receiving slot, and
(ii) an engaging condition where said cover door assembly cooperates with said base member in a manner blocking said receiving slot to prevent removal of said bicycle portion therefrom and said aligning port is aligned with said bolt port of said base member for sliding receipt of said securing bolt member therethrough to prevent said cover door assembly from moving to said non-engaging condition when said securing bolt of said lock assembly releasably locks said cover door assembly to said base member;
said base member and said cover door assembly, when said cover door assembly is in said engaging condition, cooperating to surround and shield said lock assembly sufficiently to substantially reduce access to areas of said lock assembly enabling unauthorized unlocking of said assembly.

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A lockable bicycle rack formed to act in concert with one of an independent U-lock assembly and an independent pad lock assembly, each lock assembly including a securing bolt member, for releasably securing a bicycle thereto, said bicycle rack comprising:

(a) a base member including
(1) a retaining wall defining a receiving slot formed and dimensioned for receipt of a portion of the bicycle therein,
(2) two spaced-apart side flanges extending outwardly therefrom defining a chamber therebetween, one of said side flanges defining a flange bolt port extending therethrough and formed to slidably receive the securing bolt member of said U-lock assembly, and
(3) a first hasp plate positioned between said side flanges and extending outward from said retaining wall into said chamber, said first hasp plate defining a hasp bolt port extending therethrough and formed to slidably receive the securing bolt member of said pad lock assembly therein;
(b) a cover door assembly formed and dimensioned to cooperate with said base member and including
(1) a shielding wall defining a flange aligning port extending therethrough, and
(2) a second hasp plate extending outward from said shielding wall and defining a hasp aligning port extending through a portion thereof, said cover door assembly being movable between a selected one of:
(i) a non-engaging condition where said cover door assembly is positioned for installation and removal of said portion of said bicycle into an out of said receiving slot, and
(ii) an engaging condition where said cover door assembly cooperates with said base member in a manner blocking said receiving slot to prevent removal of said bicycle portion therefrom, said hasp aligning port is aligned with hasp bolt port and said flange aligning port is aligned with flange bolt port for sliding receipt of a respective one of said securing bolt member of said pad lock assembly and said securing bolt member of said U-lock assembly therethrough to prevent said cover door assembly from moving to said non-engaging condition when said respective securing bolt of said one of the pad lock assembly and the U-lock assembly releasably locks said cover door assembly to said base member;
said base member and said cover door assembly, when said cover door assembly is in said engaging condition, cooperating to surround and shield one of said pad lock assembly and said U-lock assembly sufficiently to substantially reduce access to areas of the respective lock assemblies enables unauthorized unlocking thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.