MINI BIKE CARRIER

• US 3,858,775 A
• Filed: 11/12/1973
• Issued: 01/07/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lawrence J. Haas
• Original Assignee: Lawrence J. Haas
• Inventors: Haas, Lawrence J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Forsberg, Jerold M.
• Application Number:
  US05/415,290
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 224/42.3B,42.3R,42.3A,42.45R,29R,42.43,42.12,42.32,42.42R,42.6,42.07 214/450 280/15F,474 403/115
• US Class Current: 224/520
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/06 at vehicle front or rear rear luggage compartments within vehicle extensible externally of the vehicle body B60R5/041
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/10 for cycles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/924 Vehicle attached carrier for bicycle or motorcycle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32573 Ball stud passes through confining opening

Abstract

A carrying device for small two-wheeled vehicles such as mini bikes includes a clamp for securing the carrier to a conventional trailer hitch. The clamp includes an upper plate having an upwardly concave socket surface complementary to the curvature of the ball hitch and a lower socket which receives the ball hitch nut. The upper and lower plates are clamped together by a pair of bolts. Support arms extending upwardly from the upper plate include cantilevered portions for supporting a vehicle or the like.

Claims

1. In combination a trailer hitch having a tow bar and a ball said ball having a threaded shank projecting through an aperture in said tow bar, a nut on said shank, and a carrier for a twowheeled vehicle or the like comprising upper and lower spaced clamping plates, said upper plate having a socket with a curvature complementary to the curvature of said ball hitch for receiving said ball hitch, said lower plate including an upstanding sleeve engagable with the undersurface of said tow bar, bolts extending through said upper and lower plates, for clamping said upper plate in contact with said ball hitch and said upstanding sleeve in said lower plate in contact with said tow bar, said sleeve receiving said shank and nut and support arms fastened to said upper plate and extending upwardly for supporting said vehicle.