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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1980
Mitsuhide Isobe, Toyonaka, JP;
Shimano Industrial Company Limited, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An improved rear hub for a bicycle, comprises: a tubular extension provided at a hub shell having a pair of first and second hub flanges and extending axially outwardly of the first hub flange, the extension carrying an inner member sleeved onto the outer periphery of the extension and fixed thereto; a plurality of through bores formed at an axially intermediate portion of the inner member; and pawl accommodating chambers which are formed by the through bores and the outer periphery of the extension and within which pawls are accommodated and retained, so that a cylindrical outer member having at least one sprocket is supported to the inner member in a relation of being unidirectionally rotatable through the pawls and ratchet teeth provided at the inner periphery of the outer member.