Land vehicles – Wheeled – Occupant propelled type
Patent
1998-10-30
2000-05-30
Dickson, Paul N.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Occupant propelled type
2802881, 280282, B62K 1306
Patent
active
060682787
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for connecting side-by-side recumbent bicycles to form a quadracycle. The apparatus includes a pair of recumbent bicycles having front wheels and rear wheels. The bicycles have substantially rigid frame members supporting the front wheels and the rear wheels, and the frame members are aligned substantially upright and parallel. The apparatus also includes a single rigid connecting member located between the frame members and attached thereto such that substantially upright planes defined by the frame members always remain substantially parallel. The connecting member has an attachment means to at least one of the frame members such that the frame member rotates relative to the connecting member within a substantially upright plane about the attachment means in order to maintain the front wheels and the rear wheels in contact with an uneven road surface as the quadracycle moves over it.
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Advertisement for "Just Two Bikes", with ref. to U.S. Pat. No. 5,342,074, presumabley available since 1995.
Advetisement from Recumbent Cyclist News 1995 Buyers Guide, pp. 38, 37, 58. Available from P.O. Box 58755, Renton, WA 98058-1755.
Kock Jeffrey W.
Kock Ronald W.
Dickson Paul N.
Kock Ronald W.
Yeagley Daniel
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