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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
James C. Rathbun, Burbank, CA (US);
Assignee:
Answer Products, Inc., Valencia, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62K 2/508 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62K 2/508 ;
Abstract
A suspension fork for cycles includes an operating device mounted externally on a telescopic fork leg that permits the rider to selectively shorten or lengthen the extent of relative travel between the inner and outer tubular sections of the fork. Preferably, an operating knob or lever is coupled with a rotary cylinder contained within the hollow compression rod by a torsion overload spring, thereby to displace a stop dog between extended and retracted positions relative to the compression rod via a slot contained in the compression rod wall.