Bicycle trailer

US10647379B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Burley Design LLC · US

Inventors

• Mike Dotsey · Chester Springs, US
• Evan Einbender Aamodt · Philadelphia, US
• Andrew J. Miller · Owensboro, US
• Patrick Nolan · Royersford, US
• Noah E. Dingler · Phoenixville, US
• Sarah Campbell · Downingtown, US
• Lindsay Malatesta · Lansdale, US
• Erin H. Morrissey · Phoenixville, US
• Scott Spence · Dayton, US
• Jon Anderegg · Eugene, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 25, 2018
• Grant date: May 12, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62K2025/044
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bicycle trailer has a frame with a hitch portion that comprises first and second yoke arms with respective first end and second end portions. Skewer engagement latches can be coupled to the second end portions of the yoke arms. The skewer engagement latches can have stops that pivot between stop open and closed positions. In the stop open positions, respective end portions of a bicycle skewer can inserted into or separated from the latches. In the stop closed positions, respective end portions of the bicycle skewer, if positioned in respective latches, are retained coupled to the yoke arms by the latches. The stops are moved between open and closed positions by an actuator, such as by respective cable portions attached to the stop portions. Desirably the actuator simultaneously moves the stops between the open and closed positions. The latches can have skewer engagement surfaces that are least in part spherical.