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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7344146 | Quadracycle The improved wheelchair employs the use of two push levers attached to two forward drive gears, and two reverse drive gears, which propel the two main rear wheels of the chair through bicycle chains connecting the front drive gears to sprocket clusters mounted on th... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7175192 | Foldable bicycle A foldable bicycle includes a frame. A first foldable device is connected to a top tube of the frame so as to fold a front wheel together with a head tube and a handlebar backward at the first foldable device such that the front and rear wheels are located parallel ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7150359 | Motorcycle wheel stand for parking and transport An improved motorcycle wheel stand having a set of guide rails (12), a set of vertical supports (14), a positive stop (18), and a perpendicular stabilizing tube (16). The wheel is clamped by pressure supplied by an air spring (38) ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7032916 | Stabilizer training wheel with integral suspension A single-piece side wheel attachment member for removably attaching an auxiliary side wheel to a bicycle is provided. The attachment member has a single-piece molded structure, including an upper vertical portion and a lower substantially horizontal spindle portion ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6976593 | Bicycle stand and method of use A bicycle stand that supports a bicycle frame to maintain the bicycle in an upright position and method of use are provided. The bicycle stand includes a first portion that supports a frame member of the bicycle and a second portion having a front-wheel-engaging mem... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974145 | Conveyance stabilization assembly A stabilization assembly (10) and a methodology for reducing lateral movement of a conveyance. Particularly, the assembly (10) comprises two opposing wheel-to-frame connector portions (36, 40) which are coupled to a conveyance (100), a fi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6866282 | Support stand for motorcycle A motorcycle support stand has a horizontally large base plate which stably engages a flat floor and mounts thereon a pair of sidewardly spaced uprights which define a gap therebetween for accommodating a motorcycle tire. The uprights have lower ends fixedly securab... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6378896 | Side air bag apparatus for vehicle The present invention provides a side air bag apparatus including an air bag unit. The air bag unit contains a side air bag and an inflator in its upper and lower portions, respectively. The air bag unit is attached to an inner panel of a side door throug... | 04/30/2002 |
| 5884941 | Mud flap extender A mud flap extender for mounting on the rear quarter panel behind each rear wheel or wheels of a truck or other vehicle and suspending a mud flap a sufficient distance rearwardly of the wheel(s) to prevent the wheel(s) from engaging the mud flap and teari... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5242183 | Bicycle accessory for stabilization while popping wheelees A bicycle accessory is provided for stabilizing a bicycle while the operator of the bicycle pops a wheelee. The accessory acts as a safety by providing one or more wheelee wheels behind the rear wheel to limit the upward excursion of the front wheel of th... | 09/07/1993 |
| 4961477 | Wheel chair transporter A wheelchair transporter for transferring a handicapped person, while seated in a wheelchair, from a ground level into an operative position on a motorcycle. The wheelchair is intended for independent use, but is designed to couple with a glide track on t... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4648597 | Bicycle support device A bicycle support device is provided for supporting a bicycle, so it can be used as a stationary exercise device. It has a base member, and a vertical member extending up from the base. The frame of a bicycle is supported on a support bracket on top of th... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4603875 | Bicycle front wheel holder A bicycle front wheel holder is provided for releasably locking the front wheel of a bicycle in fixed rotational position relative to the bicycle frame and for keeping the front wheel from turning. The wheel holder comprises two bracket members adapted to... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4595214 | Bicycle parking brake A readily releasable parking brake for a bicycle includes a housing to be secured to the underside of the down tube of a bicycle frame, and a generally U-shaped spring wire form which has the ends of its leg portions received in a recess in the housing an... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4410195 | Bicycle with improved safety By providing a bicycle with a one-way brake coupled between the front wheel and the frame of the bicycle, the one-way brake being configured to permit only forward rotation of the front wheel, dangerous reverse rotation of the front wheel, which accompani... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4185850 | Automatic release bicycle holder The device comprises a base block of material mounted on the frame bar of a bicycle which extends downwardly and rearwardly from the front fork. The block is mounted beneath the bar at the point closest to the adjacent front wheel and tire. The block is p... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4153268 | Cycle stabilizing accessory Apparatus for attachment as an accessory to a cycle such as a bicycle, for stabilizing the cycle upon rearward rotation thereof about the rear wheel when the front wheel is raised from the surface upon which the cycle is located. The apparatus comprises a... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4093264 | Speed changing position regulating device for autobicycles A speed changing position regulating device for a motorcycle, having a speed changing operating means (60) for a transmission gear for changing over speed changing positions by the operation of a shift pedal (30) operatively connected with the speed chang... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4082308 | Bicycle-training apparatus A bicycle-training apparatus adapted to be used, as an accessory equipment, together with any existing bicycle, to convert it to a hometrainer cycle. It comprises a disassemblable frame with a base part to be driven by the rear wheel of the bicycle, said ... | 04/04/1978 |
