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Safe quick-release bicycle axle fastener

  • US 6,260,931 B1
  • Filed: 09/23/1997
  • Issued: 07/17/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An improved bicycle wheel axle assembly for bicycles of a type having two opposed axle mounting plates with open-ended slots and safety retention surfaces, a hollow wheel axle, a spindle passing through the hollow axle, an adjustment nut on one end of the spindle, a cam on the other end of the spindle, the cam having a closed position that clamps the axle between the mounting plates, the improvement comprising a spring attached to the cam that urges the cam to rotate to its dosed position.

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