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US 6,783,143 B1Granted
Hub post for a bicycle
OwnerWen-Chung Hunginventor
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Abstract
A hub post is mounted on a wheel axle of a bicycle and has an anti-rotation locking pin to keep the hub post from rotating and loosening and detaching from the wheel axle. The anti-rotation locking pin is mounted in a countersunk through hole in a closed end of the hub post and is securely held in an axle mounting slot in a fork of the bicycle.
Claims2
A hub post for a bicycle having an axle slot in a fork and an axle extending through the axle slot, the hub post being hollow and comprising
- an open end;
- a closed end with an outside surface having
- a central through hole adapted for being mounted around and attached to the on end of the axle, and
- multiple countersunk through holes defined around the central hole and each countersunk through hole having an external shoulder facing the outside surface, and
- an anti-rotation locking pin selectively mounted in one of the countersunk through holes, adapted to be mounted in the axle slot through which the axle extends and having
- a slot pin mounted in the axle slot;
- an annular flange abutting the annular shoulder in the selected countersunk through hole;
- and
- a mounting pin mounted in and extending into the selected countersunk through hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.