Material or article handling – Vehicle attached auxiliary carriers
Patent
1996-05-21
1998-01-20
Merritt, Karen B.
Material or article handling
Vehicle attached auxiliary carriers
224310, 224324, 224924, B60P 900
Patent
active
057095213
ABSTRACT:
The bicycle carrier apparatus of the invention has a commercially obtainable pneumatic or similar power lift device positioned longitudinally in and along an elongate bicycle lifting and supporting columnar standard whose lower end is pivotally mounted on a preferably rotatable turntable as part of a mounting base that is adapted for attachment, usually through longitudinal bars inserted in such base, to conventional transverse bars of the usual rooftop luggage rack of an automotive vehicle. The columnar standard includes a bicycle-securing lift bar having a height adjustable lift arm carrying a device that is attachable to the frame of a bicycle to be carried in upstanding position on the rooftop of the vehicle and that accommodates the pivotal swinging movement of such lift bar and of the columnar standard to which it is attached. Also included in the columnar standard are components that guide the power stroke of the power lift device and transfer the power thereof to the columnar standard for raising or assisting in raising it from the down position to the upstanding position.
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Ferrari Anthony
Glass Dennis
Hess Douglas
Merritt Karen B.
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