Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – Carrier attached to the front or rear end of vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2002-12-18
2004-05-18
Elkins, Gary E. (Department: 3727)
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
Carrier attached to the front or rear end of vehicle
C224S513000, C224S536000, C224S924000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06736301
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a supplementary apparatus of vehicle, and more particularly to a support assembly which is mounted on a vehicle for carrying bicycles thereon.
A conventional support frame for carrying bicycle on a car, please refer to FIGS. from
FIG. 1
to
FIG. 3
, mainly comprises a main frame member
1
and a support frame member
2
. The main frame member
1
consists of a main transverse tube
101
, a retractable tube
102
, a bottom tube
104
and a support tube
105
. The retractable tube
102
has a plurality of apertures
103
. The support tube
105
rests an end thereof against a rear bumper of the car. The bottom tube
104
has an aperture
106
at an end thereof for engagement with the retractable tube
102
by a spring
103
with a plug thereon. The support frame member
2
has a cross tube
201
which mounts two seat rings
202
at two opposite ends thereof respectively and a lock ball
203
on the third end thereof for locking the bottom tube
104
. Such that combine the main frame member
1
with the support frame member
2
and mount them on the car to carrying a bicycle
3
thereon.
The bicycle
3
usually has a length larger than the width of the car such that the bicycle
3
will extrude out of the car from a side thereof. That will cause danger when driving the car with the bicycle
3
carried thereon. Furthermore, the conventional support frame only can be mounted on a normal four-door car rather than on a van or a car having a flow board at rear thereof.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The primary object of the present invention is to provide a support assembly for carrying bicycles on a vehicle, which can avoid the bicycles extruded out of the vehicle.
The secondary object of the present invention is to provide a support assembly, which can be mounted on any type of vehicle.
According to the objects of the present invention, a support assembly, which is mounted on a vehicle for carrying bicycles thereon, comprises a first frame member, a second frame member, two retractable tube sets, four front wheel seats and four rear wheel seats. The retractable tube sets pivot their ends on said first frame member and said second frame member respectively such that angles between said first frame member, said second frame member and said retractable tube sets and a distance between said first frame member and said second frame member can be adjusted to make the support assembly of the present invention can be mounted on any type of vehicle. The front wheel seats and the rear wheel seats are provided at the first frame member and said second frame member respectively to put and secure the bicycles' wheels thereon. The front wheel seats are rotatable so that the front wheels of the bicycles secured on the front wheel seats can be turned to shorten the lengths of the bicycles.
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patent: 6047869 (2000-04-01), Chiu
patent: 6126053 (2000-10-01), Shaver
patent: 6491195 (2002-12-01), McLemore et al.
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