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US4688705A
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Apparatus for mounting flashlights to bicycles
Assignee: MIREE DESIGNS LLC
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Filing: 1986-07-16
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Granted: 1987-08-25
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Expires: 2006-07-16
Abstract
Abstract Apparatuses for mounting flashlights to bicycles have concave surfaces for directly supporting flashlights and which are releasibly held thereto by Velcro type material bearing straps. The apparatuses also have semi-cylindrical channels adapted to the placed in mating contact with bar elements of the bicycles and releasibly held thereto by other Velcro type material bearing straps.
Inventors
- 👤 Mallory F. Miree
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 09:38
CPC Classifications
F; F21; F21V; F21V21/00; F21V21/08; F21V21/0832; B; B62; B62J; B62J6/00; B62J6/02; B62J6/028; B62J6/03
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
156 words
A mount for mounting a flashlight to a lower rear portion of a bicycle of the type having a lower stay bar from which a rear stay bar upwardly inclines, and with the mount havng a lower channel and an upper channel joined together by a generally flat web with said lower and upper channels forming an acute angle for mating engagement with the top of the lower stay bar and a side of the rear stay bar, wherein said web comprises two plates pivoted together at a reference point above which said upper channel is located and below which said lower channel is located, clamp means for adjustably holding said plates together in fixed mutually overlapping positions, a third channel for supporting a flashlight that extends generally parallel with said lower channel aside said web, and binding means for binding said upper channel to the rear stay bar and a flashlight to said third channel.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
156 words
A mount for mounting a flashlight to a lower rear portion of a bicycle of the type having a lower stay bar from which a rear stay bar upwardly inclines, and with the mount havng a lower channel and an upper channel joined together by a generally flat web with said lower and upper channels forming an acute angle for mating engagement with the top of the lower stay bar and a side of the rear stay bar, wherein said web comprises two plates pivoted together at a reference point above which said upper channel is located and below which said lower channel is located, clamp means for adjustably holding said plates together in fixed mutually overlapping positions, a third channel for supporting a flashlight that extends generally parallel with said lower channel aside said web, and binding means for binding said upper channel to the rear stay bar and a flashlight to said third channel.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
133 words
A mount for mounting a flashlight to a lower rear portion of a bicycle of the type having a lower stay bar from which a rear stay bar upwardly inclines from adjacent a rear wheel axis, and with said mount having two elongated concave surfaces oriented at an acute angle with respect to each other that face mutually transverse planes so as to be adapted to be respectively mated atop the lower stay bar and aside the rear stay bar, and a third elongated conave surface adapted to hold a flashlght that extends generally parallel with the one of said concave surfaces adapted to be mated aside the rear stay bar, and binding means for releasibly binding a flashlight within said third elongated concave surface and said mount to the rear stay bar.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
133 words
A mount for mounting a flashlight to a lower rear portion of a bicycle of the type having a lower stay bar from which a rear stay bar upwardly inclines from adjacent a rear wheel axis, and with said mount having two elongated concave surfaces oriented at an acute angle with respect to each other that face mutually transverse planes so as to be adapted to be respectively mated atop the lower stay bar and aside the rear stay bar, and a third elongated conave surface adapted to hold a flashlght that extends generally parallel with the one of said concave surfaces adapted to be mated aside the rear stay bar, and binding means for releasibly binding a flashlight within said third elongated concave surface and said mount to the rear stay bar.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The mount of claim 2 comprising means for adjusting the position and orientation of said two elongated concave surfaces relative to one another.
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