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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2014
Thule Sweden Ab, Hillerstorp, SE;
David Budd, Newton, CT (US);
James Paul Detweiler, Bristol, CT (US);
Thomas J. Hanson, Rye, NY (US);
Ash Patel, Newtown, CT (US);
Gregor G. Weaver, Waterbury, CT (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 wedge located within the anchor body and 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 secured configuration in which the movable wedge is in lateral abutting engagement with a bicycle through-axle received within the interior of the receiving space.