Patent Application
20250065977
The embodiments described herein relate generally to automotive accessories and, more particularly, to a drinking horn mount for a motorcycle.
Drinking horns are horn shaped drinking vessels that are historically associated with the Vikings. However, trying to hold or strap a drinking horn to a motorcycle is dangerous and awkward. There are no existing devices that are designed specifically to securely transfer a drinking horn when riding a motorcycle.
Therefore, what is needed is a drinking horn mount for securely and safely transporting a drinking horn while riding a motorcycle.
Some embodiments of the present disclosure include a drinking horn mount for securely and safely transporting a drinking horn on a motorcycle. The drinking horn mount may include an upper portion configured to hold an upper portion of the drinking horn, wherein the upper portion may include a pair of loops configured to encircle an upper portion of a roll bar on the motorcycle; and an openable clip attached to the pair of loops, the openable clip configured to support a drinking horn holster; and a lower portion configured to hold a pointed end of the drinking horn, the lower portion configured to encircle a lower portion of the roll bar.
The detailed description of some embodiments of the invention is made below with reference to the accompanying figures, wherein like numerals represent corresponding parts of the figures.
In the following detailed description of the invention, numerous details, examples, and embodiments of the invention are described. However, it will be clear and apparent to one skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the embodiments set forth and that the invention can be adapted for any of several applications.
The device of the present disclosure may be used as a drinking horn mount for a motorcycle and may comprise the following elements. This list of possible constituent elements is intended to be exemplary only, and it is not intended that this list be used to limit the device of the present application to just these elements. Persons having ordinary skill in the art relevant to the present disclosure may understand there to be equivalent elements that may be substituted within the present disclosure without changing the essential function or operation of the device.
The various elements of the present disclosure may be related in the following exemplary fashion. It is not intended to limit the scope or nature of the relationships between the various elements, and the following examples are presented as illustrative examples only.
By way of example, and referring to
More specifically, and as shown in
As discussed above, the lower portion 30 may comprise a lower bar loop 34 attached to a lower horn loop 32, wherein the lower bar loop 34 and the lower horn loop 32 are orthogonal to each other. Each of the lower horn loop 32 and the lower bar loop 34 may comprise a strap or a clamp designed to secure around the roll bar 42. In a particular embodiment, the loops 32, 34 may each comprise an insulated cable clamp secured around the roll bar 42 and to one another via a fastener 36. As shown, the loops may have a metal core with an outer protective covering wherein the ends of the metal core may have a fastener orifice extending therethrough, such that the loops 32, 34 may be engaged to one another simply by positioning a fastener 36, such as a bolt, through the fastener orifices.
To use the mount 10 of the present disclosure, the upper portion 11 may be attached to the upper portion of a roll bar 42 by wrapping the loops 16 around the roll bar and securing each loop to the back of the clip 18 using a respective fastener 20. The lower portion 30 of the mount 10 may also be attached to the lower portion of a roll bar 42, wherein the lower bar loop 34 may be positioned around the roll bar 42 and secured closed and to the lower horn loop 32 using a fastener 36. The clip 18 may be opened, allowing the front plate 21 to open with respect to the back plate 19. A holster 14A, which may comprise a drinking horn loop configured to encircle a larger end of the drinking horn 14 and a holster loop 22, may be removably engaged with the clip 18 by inserting the front plate 21 through the holster loop 22 and closing the front plate 21 with respect to the base plate 19. A drinking horn 14 may then be slid down into the drinking horn loop, allowing the point of the drinking horn to extend downward to the lower portion 30 of the mount 10. The pointed end of the drinking horn 14 may be inserted into the lower horn loop 32, thus securing the drinking born 14 to the mount 10. The user may remove the drinking horn 14 by simply pulling the larger end of the drinking horn 14 up and out of the drinking horn loop on the holster 14A. Alternatively, the user may release the front plate 21 from the base plate 19 using the release mechanism 23, allowing the user to still utilize the holster 14A with the drinking horn 14 separate from the mount 10.
The above-described embodiments of the invention are presented for purposes of illustration and not of limitation. While these embodiments of the invention have been described with reference to numerous specific details, one of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit of the invention. Thus, one of ordinary skill in the art would understand that the invention is not to be limited by the foregoing illustrative details, but rather is to be defined by the appended claims.
