Combination rear luggage carrier and child seat for bicycle

• US 4,053,091 A
• Filed: 05/28/1976
• Issued: 10/11/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sears Roebuck & Company (Sears Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sears Roebuck & Company (Sears Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Martelet, Ronald G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Douglas, Winston H.
• Application Number:
  US05/690,889
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 224/32 R, 224/32 A, 224/30 R, 224/31, 224/33 R, 224/39, 280/202, 280/289 A, 297/DIG. 9, 297/243, D 6/48, D 6/48.1
• US Class Current: 224/415
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 1/16 for children
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 7/04 arranged above or behind the rear wheel

Abstract

A carrier formed of welded rod or tubular metal and mountable on a conventional bicycle above the rear wheel to provide a rigid platform for supporting items of luggage and the like. A child'"'"'s seat of molded plastic material includes simple means for detachably securing the seat to the carrier so that the device may be selectively used for carrying a child or luggage.

Claims

1. An attachment for bicycles and the like comprising a luggage carrier formed of rod-like members and having means for mounting on the rear frame of a bicycle, and a child carrier removably secured on said luggage carrier, said luggage carrier including a first U-shaped member having parallel longitudinal legs connected by a first bight portion, a second U-shaped member having parallel longitudinal legs connected by a second bight portion, said bight portions being oppositely arranged, a tie bar connected to each of said legs intermediate said bight portions, the legs of said first U-shaped member being connected to the bight portion of the second U-shaped member and having forward diverging extensions and carrying clamping means for securement to a rear frame member of said bicycle, the legs of said second U-shaped member having depending extensions embracing a rear cycle wheel and having perforated extremities for attachment to another portion of said rear frame member in close proximity to the axle of the rear cycle wheel, said child carrier being formed of molded plastic and having a seat portion, a back, side walls, and depending leg receiving portions straddling the rear cycle wheel, a sheet metal bracket secured to the underside of said seat portion, said bracket including a vertical leg disposed between the depending leg receiving portions of the child carrier, said vertical leg having a struck-out lug constituting a downwardly opening socket engageable with said second bight portion, said vertical leg having a lateral notch at each side edge with the parallel legs of said first U-shaped member being engageable in said notches and removably secured therein, and locking elements carried on the underside of said seat portion for clamping engagement with the legs of said U-shaped members.