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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2018
Thule Sweden Ab, Hillerstorp, SE;
James Detweiler, Bristol, CT (US);
Joseph Settelmayer, McKinleyville, CA (US);
Thule Sweden AB, Hillerstorp, SE;
Abstract
An anchor for releasably securing a bicycle through-axle that is installed in a wheelless front fork of a bicycle to a load carrier. The anchor is made up of an anchor body having a through-axle receiving space for receiving a bicycle through-axle therein. The anchor additionally has a movable jaw located within the anchor body and that is transitionable between a receiving configuration in which an interior of the receiving space is expanded for insertably receiving a bicycle through-axle therein, and a securing configuration in which the movable jaw is in lateral abutting engagement with a bicycle through-axle received within the interior of the receiving space.