| 摘要 |
An improved, simple rack for the secure transport of bicycles and small motorcycles in the bed of a pickup truck or trailer without clamping, strapping or disassembly of the cycle, and with minimal obstruction of the load-carrying bed floor, has individual cycle wheel receptacles with both fixed and spring-loaded wheel clamping brackets, that are secured to at least one rack rail assembly that is secured to opposite sides of the truck or trailer bed. In order to secure a cycle in the rack, a front or rear wheel of the cycle is lifted up and pushed into the wheel receptacle between the fixed and spring-loaded wheel clamping brackets. In order to unload the cycle, the wheel is pushed against the spring-loaded wheel clamping bracket, thereby releasing the wheel from the fixed wheel clamping bracket, and is, then, pulled upwardly from the wheel receptacle. |
| 主权项 |
1. A bicycle transport rack securable to upper rail portions of opposed side walls of a cargo bed, said rack comprising:
at least one bed-spanning beam securable between said opposed upper rail portions; and at least one wheel receptacle having
a base securable to said bed-spanning beam, said base having an upwardly-facing V-shaped channel which makes angled contact with both sides of a bottom portion of a tire-shod bicycle wheel inserted in the channel so that the bicycle wheel is oriented generally parallel to the side walls of the cargo bed;an upwardly-angled, fixed first wheel clamping bracket having a proximate end thereof rigidly affixed to said base at a first end of said V-shaped channel, said first wheel clamping bracket having a first V-shaped tire clamp at a distal end thereof which grips the tire of an inserted wheel on its circumference at a first distance from said base; andan upwardly-angled, spring-loaded second wheel clamping bracket affixed at its proximate end to said base member at a second end of said V-shaped channel, said second wheel clamping bracket having a second V-shaped tire clamp at a distal end thereof which grips the tire of an inserted wheel on its circumference at a second distance from said base and at a third distance from said first V-shaped clamp. |
