Bicycle frame

US4453730A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Odo Klose · Wuppertal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 18, 1981
• Grant date: Jun 12, 1984
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/2078
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bicycle frame bent in approximately the shape of a parabola with the parabola vertex in the region of the steering fork head, the frame being stabilized by the ends of the parabolic frame arms are tensioned with respect to each other in opposition to their elastic movement of restoration by a bridge which extends from the rear wheel fork to the saddle mount.