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US 6,283,310 B1Granted
Bicycle carrier
AssigneeYakima Products, Inc.
InventorsGregory A. Dean, Scott R. Allen
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Abstract
A rack for carrying a bicycle on a vehicle. The rack includes forward and rear crossbars extending across a top surface of the vehicle and a pair of tower bodies associated with each crossbar to secure the crossbars to the vehicle. A wheel mount is attached to a first one of the crossbars. The wheel mount is adapted to support a wheel of the bicycle with a lowest point on the wheel positioned over a range of positions relative to the crossbar including with the lowest point positioned off the wheel mount.
Claims13
A mount for securing a bicycle wheel to an elongate crossbar, comprising:
- a wheel tray portion, the wheel tray portion being shaped to support the bicycle wheel at at least two circumferentially-spaced points around the perimeter of the wheel to thereby restrict rotation of the wheel tray around the perimeter of the wheel;
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- a connector portion configured to selectively secure the wheel tray portion to the crossbar in a plurality of generally upwardly facing rotational orientations about the axis of the crossbar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.