Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Elements
Patent
1997-08-07
1999-09-14
Bonck, Rodney H.
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Elements
745511, 224420, B62K 2112
Patent
active
059504986
ABSTRACT:
A storage apparatus facilitates the storage of items inside a handle (for example, a handle portion of a bicycle handlebar). The storage apparatus includes a cylindrical storage member coupled to an engaging device for removably engaging the handlebar. An item to be stored (for example, a tire lever) is placed in the cylindrical storage member, the cylindrical storage member is slid into the hollow open end of a handle bar until the engaging device plugs the end of the handlebar. The engaging device is then made to engage the handlebar (for example, by expanding circumferentially to frictionally engage the inside surface of the handlebar) to secure the storage member in place inside the handlebar. The item is retrieved by disengaging the engaging device from the handlebar, sliding the storage member out of the handlebar, opening the storage member, and removing the item.
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Gossett J. Cary
Sacks Kenneth R.
Bonck Rodney H.
Ho Ha
Wallace T. Lester
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