Patent ID: 6056369
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: B60B,B62B,Y10S

Abstract:
A wheel shaft mounting arrangement comprising a shaft holder securely mounted on the framework of a golf cart and a shaft fastened to said shaft holder to support a wheel, wherein said shaft comprises a rectangular front end, a rectangular coupling hole axially disposed at the center of said rectangular front end, and two rectangular transverse locating holes respectively perpendicularly extended from said rectangular coupling hole to flat top and bottom side walls of said rectangular front end; said shaft holder comprises an open chamber, which receives the rectangular front end of said shaft, a rectangular locating block raised from an inside wall thereof, which is fitted into the rectangular coupling hole at said shaft when said shaft is inserted into said open chamber, a hook hole at a back side wall thereof, a fixed plate fixedly disposed in said open chamber at a top side, and a movable plate pivoted to said fixed plate by a pivot and turned between a first position to lock said shaft and a second position to unlock said shaft, said movable plate comprising a rectangular plug rod, which is engaged into one rectangular transverse locating hole at said shaft when said movable plate is turned to said first position, or disengaged from said shaft when said movable plate is turned from said first position to said second position, and a hook, which is hooked in said hook hole when said movable plate is turned to said first position, or disengaged from said hook hole when said movable plate is turned from said first position to said second position.