Device for supporting parcels on a parcel rack of a two-wheeled vehicle

• US 4,364,497 A
• Filed: 02/12/1981
• Issued: 12/21/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/1980
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paul Zimmerli
• Original Assignee: Paul Zimmerli
• Inventors: Zimmerli, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollard, Steven M.
• Application Number:
  US06/233,729
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 224/30 R, 224/30 A, 224/39, 224/40, 224/42, 224/32 A, 294/118, 294/3
• US Class Current: 224/454
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 7/08 Equipment for securing luggage on carriers
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 9/23 above or alongside the rear wheel B62J9/26 takes precedence

Abstract

A parcel supporting device to be used in conjunction with the parcel rack of a two-wheeled vehicle, e.g. a bicycle, is adapted to carry additional parcels, e.g. shopping bags, positioned laterally from and above the rear wheel of the vehicle, so that they don'"'"'t interfere with the movements of the rider. The device is equipped with means for suspending the parcels consisting preferably of two levers pivotably connected with and crossing one another in a scissorslike manner and being hook-shaped at their parcel-receiving ends. The suspending means may be removable from or built integral with the parcel rack.

Claims

1. A device for supporting parcels on a parcel rack of a two-wheeled vehicle, comprising means for detachably suspending parcels in a freely suspended position laterally from the rear wheel of the vehicle, said means consisting of two elongated levers which are pivotably connected to one another at a common pivot axis and cross one another in a scissorslike manner, the upper end of each lever being constructed as a receiver for the parcel, and the lower end of each lever being provided with a mounting member mountable from the inside on a longitudinal beam of the parcel rack in such a way that, when the parcel rack is subjected to the load of one or more suspended parcels, both mounting members are pressed against the longitudinal beams of the parcel rack.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receivers are shaped as hooks and the mounting members are provided with mouthshaped openings.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two levers are each curved along one segment thereof disposed below the common pivot axis, the segments of said levers above said pivot axis being essentially straight.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the receivers are hook-shaped and, in their mounted position, are located above and protrude outwardly of the mounting members.

5. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each mounting member comprises two support members, the distance between the two support members increasing in an outward direction.

6. A device as claimed in claim 5, wherein one of said two support members is constructed to be the extremity of the respective lever, the other support member being a stabilizing plate mounted on the lever and having its length dimension running parallel to the pivot axis of the levers, the length of said stabilizing plate being a multiple of the lever width whereby the levers are stabilized against tilting by said stabilizing plates.