Adjustable bicycle handlebar

• US 8,307,736 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chang Hui Lin
• Original Assignee: Chang Hui Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Chang Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): Ridley, Richard W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Santosa, William
• Application Number:
  US13/065,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20120240719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 745511-5518, 403/314, 403/320, 403/409.1
• US Class Current: 74/551.4
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 21/125 Extensions; Auxiliary handlebars
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 21/16 having adjustable parts therein
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/5793 including member wedging or camming means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20792 Folding or adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20798 Sectional
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20822 Attachments and accessories

Abstract

A bicycle handlebar includes a cylinder having two collars formed on each end portion, two arms each having a barrel disposed between the collars, two bars engaged through the collars and the barrels of the arms for pivotally connecting the arms to the cylinder, and two followers engaged into the cylinder and movable relative to the cylinder for moving the barrels of the arms to clamp and retain the bars to the cylinder at the selected position and to retain the barrels of the arms at the selected angular position relative to the cylinder, the arms are adjustable relative to the cylinder to the selected angular position and the bars are movable relative to the cylinder to the selected position when the followers are released.

Claims

1. A bicycle handlebar comprising:

a cylinder including a chamber formed therein and including two end portions each having two collars provided thereon,

two arms disposed beside said cylinder and each including a barrel disposed between said collars of said cylinder respectively,

two bars engaged through said collars and said barrels of said arms for pivotally connecting said arms to said cylinder respectively, and

two followers engaged into said chamber of said cylinder and movable relative to said cylinder for selectively moving said barrels of said arms to clamp and retain said bars to said cylinder, said arms being adjustable relative to said cylinder to a selected angular position and said bars being movable relative to said cylinder to a selected position when said barrels of said arms are not moved away from said cylinder.

2. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 1, wherein said followers each include a depression formed in an outer end portion thereof for receiving and engaging with said barrel of said arm respectively.

3. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 1, wherein said followers each include a cushioning member disposed on an outer end portion thereof, and said barrels of said arms each include a cushioning member for engaging with said cushioning member of said follower.

4. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylinder includes two forcing members disposed in said chamber of said cylinder and engaged with said follower for selectively moving said followers to engage with said barrels of said arms.

5. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 4, wherein said followers each include two inclined surfaces formed thereon, and said forcing members each include two inclined surfaces formed thereon for engaging with said inclined surfaces of said followers and for moving said followers toward said barrels of said arms when said forcing members are moved toward each other.

6. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 5, wherein said cylinder includes a forcing element engaged with said forcing members for selectively moving said forcing members toward each other.

7. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 6, wherein said forcing element is a fastener engaged through one of said forcing members and threaded with the other forcing member.

8. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 1, wherein said arms each include an auxiliary handlebar attached thereto.

9. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 8, wherein said auxiliary handlebar each include a casing having a compartment formed therein for receiving and engaging with an outer end portion of said arm.

10. The bicycle handlebar as claimed in claim 1 further comprising two tubes engaged through said collars and said barrels respectively and each tube including a bore formed therein for receiving and engaging with said bars respectively, and each tube including a slit formed therein for forming a resilient structure to said tube.