Patent ID: 6923089
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: B62K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A grip for applying to one end of a tubular vehicle handlebar, comprising: a tubular grip body slightly larger in inner diameter than the handlebar for enabling an end thereof to be inserted into said grip body; and a tightening up means adapted to fix said grip body to the handlebar, said tighten up means comprising a locating member mounted in a first end of said grip body in such a way that it is prevented from relative slippage to said grip body, said locating member having a through hole axially extended through two ends thereof, an elastomeric tightening up member inserted into the end of the handlebar, female screw means disposed in said elastomeric tightening up member, and a screw having a head stopped on one end of said locating member and a threaded body inserted through the through hole of said locating member and threaded into said female screw means; and said locating member and said tightening up member shaped in such a way that as said screw is screwed up, said tightening up member will be driven toward said locating member and the tightening up member forced radially to abut against an inside wall of the handlebar; wherein said locating member has a shank insertable in one end of the handlebar to which said tubular grip body is applied and a beveled guide face formed on a free end of said shank; said tightening up member has a cylindrically shaped body having a beveled guide face formed in one end thereof and facing the beveled guide face of said locating member; wherein said tightening up member has an axially extended center through hole corresponding to the center through hole of said locating member; said female screw means is a nut mounted in said tightening up member concentric to the center through hole of said tightening up member and threaded onto the threaded body of said screw; and wherein said tightening up member has an insertion hole radially inwardly extended from the periphery thereof across the center through hole of said tightening up member and adapted to accommodate said nut, said insertion hole having an inner end shaped to fit the contour of said nut.