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Laterally shiftable bicycle fork skewer
US9216699B2 · US · B2
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-9216699-B2 |
| Application number | US-201314427293-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | B2 |
| Filing date | Sep 10, 2013 |
| Priority date | Sep 11, 2012 |
| Publication date | Dec 22, 2015 |
| Grant date | Dec 22, 2015 |
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A bicycle fork anchor includes an anchor body which can have an interior space housing a skewer contraction device. The body can include a pair of skewer access ports. Also, the anchor body can include a pair of axially aligned elongate skewers, each extending through the access ports. The skewer contraction device can be operably coupled to the engagement portion of each of the pair of skewers. The skewer contraction device can be laterally moveable within the interior space of the anchor body so that during contractive operation of the skewer contraction device, the skewers draw together and simultaneously the skewer contraction device moves laterally within the interior space of the anchor body causing the skewers to extend different lengths outside the body and thereby accommodating reception of different thickness fork dropouts on the skewers.
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The invention claimed is: 1. A bicycle fork anchor that accommodates securing a bicycle fork to a vehicular mounted load carrier in which each of a pair of fork dropouts in respective prongs of the bicycle fork have different thicknesses and each fork dropout is pinch-secured to the anchor with substantially like magnitude force in a secured configuration for bicycle transport, the bicycle fork anchor comprising: an anchor body comprising an interior space housing a skewer contrac…
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- What does patent US9216699B2 cover?
- A bicycle fork anchor includes an anchor body which can have an interior space housing a skewer contraction device. The body can include a pair of skewer access ports. Also, the anchor body can include a pair of axially aligned elongate skewers, each extending through the access ports. The skewer contraction device can be operably coupled to the engagement portion of each of the pair of skewers…
- Who is the assignee on this patent?
- Thule Sweden Ab
- What technology area does this patent fall under?
- Primary CPC classification B60R9/10. Mapped technology areas include Operations & Transport.
- When was this patent published?
- Publication date Tue Dec 22 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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- We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).