Patent Application
20210347430
This subject disclosure relates to baskets for bicycles and other vehicles.
A typical bicycle front basket is formed of wire, coupled to the handlebars, and is supported by brackets extending downward at a rearward angle from the bottom of the basket and coupled to the bicycle forks or front tire skewer.
As such, the typical bicycle basket is costlier to ship and generally cannot be displayed in a retail environment on peg hook displays.
Featured, in one preferred embodiment, is an easier to assemble, lower cost, and removable bicycle basket which can be collapsed for less costly shipping and easier display in a retail environment on hook displays.
Featured is a bicycle basket assembly comprising a basket, a frame for the basket, a handlebar anchor coupled to the frame and a support brace coupled to the handlebar anchor and securable under a handlebar stem of the bicycle.
In one example, the basket is collapsible and/or removable from the frame. The basket may include flaps securable over the frame, The basket preferably hangs from the frame, The basket can be made of fabric and may include one or more handles. Preferably, the frame forms a polygon. The handlebar anchor preferably includes a pair of spaced handlebar clamps. And, the handlebar anchor support brace may include one or more straps attached to the handlebar anchor.
Also featured is a bicycle basket assembly comprising a frame, a collapsible fabric basket hanging from the frame, and a handlebar anchor coupled to the frame including a pair of spaced handlebar clamps. The bicycle basket assembly may further include a support brace coupled to the handlebar anchor and securable under a handlebar stem of the bicycle and the support brace may include one or more straps attached to the handlebar anchor coupled to the support brace.
Also featured is a bicycle basket assembly comprising a basket, a frame for the basket, at least one handlebar clamp associated with the frame, and a support brace securable under a handlebar stem of the bicycle. The handlebar clamp preferably resides underneath a planar handlebar anchor secured to the frame. The support brace preferably includes one or more straps attached to the planar handlebar anchor.
The subject invention, however, in other embodiments, need not achieve all these objectives and the claims hereof should not be limited to structures or methods capable of achieving these objectives.
Other objects, features and advantages will occur to those skilled in the art from the following description of a preferred embodiment and the accompanying drawings, in which:
Aside from the preferred embodiment or embodiments disclosed below, this invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or being carried out in various ways. Thus, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangements of components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. If only one embodiment is described herein, the claims hereof are not to be limited to that embodiment. Moreover, the claims hereof are not to be read restrictively unless there is clear and convincing evidence manifesting a certain exclusion, restriction, or disclaimer.
In one embodiment, bicycle basket assembly 10,
Basket 12 is preferably securable to and removeable from frame 14 via top end opening rim flaps 30a-30e or sleeves, preferably one or more associated with each side of the basket. See
The result, in the preferred embodiment, is an easier to assemble, lower cost, and removable bicycle basket which can be collapsed for lest costly shipping and easier display in a retail environment.
Although specific features of the invention are shown in some drawings and not in others, this is for convenience only as each feature may be combined with any or all of the other features in accordance with the invention. The words “including”, “comprising”, “having”, and “with” as used herein are to be interpreted broadly and comprehensively and are not limited to any physical interconnection. Moreover, any embodiments disclosed in the subject application are not to be taken as the only possible embodiments. Other embodiments will occur to those skilled in the art and are within the following claims.
In addition, any amendment presented during the prosecution of the patent application for this patent is not a disclaimer of any claim element presented in the application as filed: those skilled in the art cannot reasonably be expected to draft a claim that would literally encompass all possible equivalents, many equivalents will be unforeseeable at the time of the amendment and are beyond a fair interpretation of what is to be surrendered (if anything), the rationale underlying the amendment may bear no more than a tangential relation to many equivalents, and/or there are many other reasons the applicant cannot be expected to describe certain insubstantial substitutes for any claim element amended.
This application claims benefit of and priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 63/022,742 filed May 11, 2020, under 35 U.S.C. §§ 119, 120, 363, 365, and 37 C.F.R. § 1.55 and § 1.78, which is incorporated herein by this reference.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63022742 | May 2020 | US |
