Supports: racks – Special article – Velocipede type
Patent
1998-01-07
2000-08-01
Stodola, Daniel P.
Supports: racks
Special article
Velocipede type
211 21, 211117, 211118, 312248, 3123192, A47F 500, A47F 700
Patent
active
060953446
ABSTRACT:
An overhead storage system for bicycles and objects that weigh approximately 40 to 50 pounds. The stored object is counter balanced by nitrogen gas spring cylinders so as to make the object virtually weightless to the user-operator. The object is stored flat or horizontally against the ceiling of a garage, porch or breezeway so as to be well above headspace and so that floor space is not taken up by the object. The user-operator pulls the stored object down with a cord similar in ease to pulling down a set of attic type stairs. A boom is pivotally connected to a ceiling mount. A first gas spring allows the stored object to move and rotate in an arc from the horizontal ceiling adjacent position to a vertical position approximately thirty inches from the floor. The boom has a lower telescoping tubular sections with a second lower gas spring holding the tubular sections together. The user-operator pulls down on handles connected to the lower tubular section which lowers the object to the floor. A latch locks the system to a down load position. The user-operator can take the object off peg supports on the system to be used. To return the object to a stored position, the above steps are repeated in reverse order. The nitrogen gas spring that causes the boom to rotate about the ceiling mount pivot is a 200 lbs force spring, while the nitrogen gas spring inside the boom that lifts the bicycle in the vertical direction is an 80 to 100 lb force spring. The compound action of the pulley/cable arrangement inside the boom delivers a useable force to lift the bicycle of one half of the nitrogen spring force or about 40 to 50 lbs.
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Stodola Daniel P.
Tran Khoa
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