Axle extension assembly for a bicycle
OwnerChin-Chang Wuinventor
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Abstract
A axle extension assembly is rotatably mounted to an axle of a wheel hub and includes a base member mounted to the axle with a nut threadedly engaged to the axle, a ring member rotatably mounted to the base member and a tube fixedly connected to the base member. The base member has an outer threaded periphery defined in a first end thereof so as to threadedly connect the tube and a protrusion portion extending radially and outwardly from a second end of the base member. A plain section is defined between the outer threaded periphery and the protrusion portion so that the ring member is rotatably mounted thereon.
Claims5
A axle extension assembly rotatably mounted to an axle of a wheel hub, comprising:
- a base member having a first end with a first hole defined therein and a second end with a second hole defined therein which communicates with said first hole and receives said axle therein, a nut threadedly engaged with said axle so as to fixedly connect said base member to said axle, said first end of said base member having an outer threaded periphery defined therein and a plain section defined between said outer threaded periphery and said second end of said base member wherein said plain section has a smooth outer periphery, a protrusion portion extending radially and outwardly from said base member opposite to said outer threaded periphery;
- a ring member rotatably mounted to said plain section of said base member, and
- a tube threadedly engaged to said outer threaded periphery of said base member so that said ring member is rotatably retained between said tube and said protrusion portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.