Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Elements
Patent
1993-09-02
1994-04-19
Luong, Vinh T.
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Elements
280279, 280280, 384540, 403 90, 403 88, B62K 2112, F16C 1106
Patent
active
053036115
ABSTRACT:
An upper steering assembly for a bicycle includes a head tube, a steerer tube passing through the head tube, a bearing assembly mounted on a top of the head tube and around the steerer tube, a rotational socket having a threaded inner periphery and including an upper clamping portion and a lower skirt portion which has an annular groove in an underside thereof for retaining the bearing assembly, and a compression socket mounted around the steerer tube and having a longitudinal slit and including an upper clamping section and a lower tubular section which is in threading connection with the inner periphery of the rotational socket allowing an adjustment of vertical position of the rotational socket relative to the compression socket.
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