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(12) Brevet: (11) CA 2039503
(54) Titre français: PORTE-BICYCLETTE
(54) Titre anglais: BICYCLE RACK
Statut: Réputé périmé
Données bibliographiques
Abrégés

Abrégé anglais


The rack according to the present invention is
adapted to support, in an upstanding position, a variety of
bicycles having wheels of different widths and diameters. The
rack includes a bottomless funnel-shaped channel having a pair of
spaced parallel walls and a pair of tapered walls. The channel
is supported at both ends by a longitudinal beam for raising the
channel above the ground. A pair of guiding rails are mounted
above the channel and fixed parallel to the tapered walls. The
guiding rails have a generally trapezoidal shape. The parallel
walls laterally supports the bicycle having narrow wheels along
their lower segment and vertically support the wheel at both ends
of the segment. The bicycle with wider wheels are vertically
supported by the tapered walls which slightly squeeze the elastic
tires of the wheels. These latter bicycles are held in an
upstanding position by the guiding rails which are close to the
spokes and allow a nearly nil tilt of the bicycle.

Revendications

Note : Les revendications sont présentées dans la langue officielle dans laquelle elles ont été soumises.


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CLAIMS:


1-. A rack for bicycles having a variety of wheel
diameters and widths comprising a bottomless channel having a
pair of spaced parallel walls and a pair of tapered walls forming
a funnel-shaped cross-section for laterally receiving the lower
segment of a front wheel of a bicycle, and a pair of longitudinal
beams for supporting said channel at each end thereof, said beams
adapted to support said wheel at each end of said segment when
said wheel has a width equal or smaller than the space between
the parallel walls, a pair of guiding rails longitudinally
projecting upwardly on each side of said channel, said rails
having a generally upsidedown truncated V-shape secured to said
beams adjacent both ends of said channel, each of said rails
having a transversal bar substantially parallel to said channel,
said rack being characterized in that the space between the
parallel walls is about a minimum of 1 inch to allow the bicycle
wheel having equal or smaller widths to fittingly slide
therethrough, the distance between said beams corresponding to
the length of said segment being about 18 inches and the distance
between the transversal bar and the channel is about 5 1/2
inches.

2-. A bicycle rack as recited in claim 1, wherein the
height of said parallel walls is about 1 inch.

3-. A bicycle rack as recited in claim 2, wherein the
tapering angle between said tapered walls is about 20 to 25
degrees, the channel has a minimum height of about 3 inches and
the distance between said transversal bars is about 1 3/4 inch to
2 inches.


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4-. A bicycle rack as recited in claim 3, wherein the
distance between the transversal bars and the lower edge of the
tapered walls is about 7 1/2 inches.

5-. A bicycle rack as recited in claim 4, wherein the
lower edge of said parallel walls are adapted to lie at a minimum
distance of 2 inches above the ground.

6-. A bicycle rack as recited in claim 5, wherein the
rail has a tapezoidal shape and the transversal bar has a length
of about 12".

7-. A rack for a plurality of bicycles comprising a
plurality of juxtaposed racks as recited in claim 1, said
longitudinal beams secured at each end of said juxtaposed
channels and a pair of transversal beams secured near each end of
said longitudinal beams, said transversal beams adapted to rest
on the ground and to maintain said parallel walls distant from
the ground.


Description

Note : Les descriptions sont présentées dans la langue officielle dans laquelle elles ont été soumises.


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TITLE OF THE INVENTION:


eBICYCLE RACK


BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:


Field of the invention:


The present invention relates to a rack for
holding a bicycle in an upstanding position and in particular to
a rack suitably structured to support the majority of bicycles
having various sizes and widths of wheels. The universality of
the rack depends on its particular structure combined with
dimensions proportionaly adjusted. It has no movable parts.


The bicycles are easy to install on the present
rack and maintain their upright position regardless of the
dimensions of the bicycle wheels which are commercially
available.


Prior art:



U.S. patent No. 3,202,289 issued on August 24,
1965 discloses a stand for bicycles which makes use of laterally
adjustable bars for clamping a wheel of a bicycle so as to hold
the latter in an upright position. The stand needs to make use
of various types of coupling which allows the adjustment of the
bars and of a Z-shape base member.


The bicycle storage device disclosed in Canadian
patent No. 1,168,187 issued on May 29, 1984, combines a wheel
receiving channel 10 with a hook 11 and a bracket 12 for gripping
the lowermost part of the wheels of a bicycle. The channel has a

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flat base portion lOa which prevents, even the narrowest wheel
from sliding below the channel. The hook grips the rim of the
wheel adjacent the channel and does not take in consideration the
spokes of the wheel.


Canadian patent No. 1,222,722 issued to P.T. Drake
on June 9, 1987 describes a kit for assembling a bicycle rack.
The loops 19 lateratly holding the wheels. The lower and the
upper part of the loops are at the same distance from each other.
Accordingly, the lower part cannot be adjustly fit for all sizes
of wheels and accordingly the b;cycle will tilt sideways. The
lower part of the loop is supported by the tubes 13 and 15 and is
close to the ground. The wheel of the bicycle is generally
susceptible of touching the ground. Furthermore, the distance
between the tubes 13 and 15 is relatively small and does not
allow the wheel to penetrate much below the level of those tubes.
Partly for this reason, Drake includes a third tube 17, to
prevent the forward movement of the bicycle.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:



The rack according to the present invention is
adapted to support, in an upstanding position, a variety of
bicycles having wheels of different widths and diameters. The
rack includes a bottomless funnel-shape channel having a pair of
spaced parallel walls and a pair of tapered walls. The channel
is supported at both ends by a longitudinal beam for raising the
channel above the ground. A pair of guiding rails are mounted


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above the channel and fixed parallel to the tapered walls. The
guiding rails have a generally trapezoidal shape. The parallel
walls laterally supports the bicycle having narrow along their
lower segment and vertically support the wheel at both ends of
the segment. The bicycle with wider wheels are vertically
supported by the tapered walls which slightly squeezes the
elastic tires of the wheels. These latter bicycles are held in an
upstanding position position by the guiding rails which are close
to the spokes and allows a nearly nil tilt of the bicycle.


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:


Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bicycle rack
according to one embodiment of the invention,
Figure 2 is a side view of the rack supporting a
bicycle wheel,


Figure 3 is a front view of the rack supporting
three bicycles,
Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along
line 4-4 of figure 2, and
Figures 4a and 4b are two views of the rack
similar to figure 4 and supporting two different bicycle wheels.



DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE P~EFERRED EMBODIMENT:


Referring to figure 1, there is shown a bicycle
rack 10 embodying the invention. The rack 10 has a pair of
longitudinal beams 12 adapted to support a set of bottomless

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channels 14. A pair of guiding rails 16 project upwardly on each
side of each channel 14. As illustrated in figures 4a and 4b,
the guiding rails 16 are adapted to abuttingly support the spokes
36 of a bicycle wheel 30. A pair of transversal beams 18 are
secured adjacent to each end of each longitudinal beam 12. The
transversal beams 18 are adapted to rest on the ground 20 thus
maintaining the longitudinal beams 12 distant from the ground 20.


As illustrated in figures 4, 4a and 4b, the
channel 14 is funnel-shaped having tapered walls 22 extending
integrally into a pair of parallel walls 24. The width of the
lower edge 28 of the tapered walls 22 is approximately one inch.
The lower segment of a wheel 30 having a width equal or inferior
to about one inch can thus fittingly slide through the lower edge
28 as illustrated in figure 4. The parallel walls 24 are adapted
to laterally abut the lower segment of the wheel 30 when the
latter extends through the lower edge 28. The projection of the
wheel 30 between the parallel walls 24 allows the periphery of
the wheel to be abuttingly supported by the longitudinal beams
12.
As illustrated in figures 4a and 4b, for wider
wheels 30a and 30b, the tapered nature of the walls 22 allows
them to abuttingly support the lower segment 40 of wheels having
various widths greater than one inch. The guiding rails 16 have

a generally upsidedown truncated V-shape or trapezoidal shape
with transversal bars 32 substantially parallel to the channel
14 and tilted bars 34 connected at each extremity to the


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longitudinal beams 12. The vertical distance between the
transversal bars 32 and the lower edge 28 of the tapered walls 22
is approximately 7 1/2 inches in order to properly support most
conventional wheels. The transversal bars 32 lie close to the
spokes 36 adjacent the hub 38 of the wheel 30. The transversal
bar 32 has a length of about 12 inches.


Contrary to the racks described in the previously
cited prior art, the rack 10 embodying the present invention is
thus particularly adapted to solidly support wheels of various
widths and diameters. This feature is particularly useful since
an increasingly large number of specislized bicycle types such as
mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, racing bikes, town bikes, etc.
having different types of wheels and frames are finding their way
in the market place.


When heavier bicycles such as town bikes or hybrid
bikes having larger wheels are used, the rack, as illustrated in
figures 4a and 4b, provides a structure allowing two different
sections of the wheel to be abuttingly supported. This is a
major improvement over the structure provided in Canadian patent
No. 1,168,187 which could hardly be used with a relatively heavy
bicycle.



The lighter bicycles, such as racing bikes, which
generally have wheels with a width equal or slightly inferior to
one inch are supported differently by the novel rack than the
bicycles having wider and smaller wheels but both securily
remains in an upstanding position.


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In the embodiment shown in figure 2, an important
segment 40 of the wheel 30 is relatively squeezed between the
parallel walls 24 for a lateral support while the beams 12
provide the vertical support. The spokes 36 are spaced from the
transversal bars 32 by a distance of about 1/8 inch on each side
which allows the bicycle a maximum tilt of less than 1 degree.
The bicycle is accordingly maintained substantially straight
without any substantial lateral pressure on the spokes when
tilted. In the embodiments shown in figures 3, 4a and 4b, the
wheels 34a and 34b penetrates more or lefis deeply between the
tapered walls for a vertical support of the bicycle while the
transversal bars 32a and 32b lie close to the spokes 36a and 36b
within a short distance of the hubs 38a and 38b where the
spokes have substantially their widest spread. The maximum
distance between the spokes and the transversal bars 32a and 32b
is less than 1/4 inch and accordingly can maintain the bicycle in
a substantially vertical position.


The bicycle rack according to the invention makes
use of the characteristic of the commercially available bicycles
wherein all the hubs have the same width and the spokes 36, 36a
and 36b can be adjacent the respective transversal bars 32, 32a
and 32b. The proximity of the latter bars and the spokes is
maintained by the degreee of penetration of the wheels in the

channels.


The support offered by the rack 10 is different
from the one offered by the structure described in Canadian


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Patent No. 1,168,187. Indeed since the channels 14 are
bottomless, contrary to the channels referred to by numeral 10 in
Canadian patent No. 1,168,187 which have a flat base lOa, the
tires can be inserted through the openings and can thus be
gripped about the lower segment 40 of the wheel 30 over a
relatively large area by the walls 24.


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États administratifs

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États administratifs

Titre Date
Date de délivrance prévu 1994-11-08
(22) Dépôt 1991-04-02
(41) Mise à la disponibilité du public 1992-10-03
Requête d'examen 1992-10-13
(45) Délivré 1994-11-08
Réputé périmé 1997-04-02

Historique d'abandonnement

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Historique des paiements

Type de taxes Anniversaire Échéance Montant payé Date payée
Le dépôt d'une demande de brevet 0,00 $ 1991-04-02
Taxe de maintien en état - Demande - nouvelle loi 2 1993-04-02 50,00 $ 1993-03-11
Taxe de maintien en état - Demande - nouvelle loi 3 1994-04-04 50,00 $ 1994-03-29
Taxe de maintien en état - brevet - nouvelle loi 4 1995-04-03 50,00 $ 1995-03-30
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Dessins représentatifs 1999-07-02 1 583
Abrégé 1994-11-08 1 23
Page couverture 1994-11-08 1 14
Abrégé 1994-11-08 1 23
Description 1994-11-08 7 189
Revendications 1994-11-08 2 51
Dessins 1994-11-08 3 107
Correspondance reliée au PCT 1994-03-29 2 68
Correspondance reliée au PCT 1994-08-25 1 30
Correspondance reliée au PCT 1993-04-02 1 24
Correspondance de la poursuite 1992-10-13 1 28
Lettre du bureau 1992-10-28 1 30
Lettre du bureau 1994-05-17 1 60
Taxes 1995-03-30 1 34
Taxes 1994-03-29 1 38
Taxes 1993-03-11 1 26