Patent ID: 8939000
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: B62H,E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In combination, a bicycle seat post and a seat post bicycle lock cooperable therewith, the seat post bicycle lock comprising: a series of rods including a pair of lock rods and an insertion rod that is arranged for insertion into the seat post through a free end thereof in a position leaving an exposed end of said insertion rod outside the seat post, the series of rods being arranged to be secured together end-to-end at relative angles to one another outside the seat post to lie on respective sides of a polygonal area with the insertion rod at one end of the series and a one of the lock rods at a second end of the series; a clamp arranged to clamp around the seat post at a distance from the free end thereof; and a lock mechanism attached to the clamp and arranged to lock the one of the lock rods to the clamp; wherein the series rods are connected by pivotal joints therebetween by which the lock rods and the insertion rod are foldable into a storage condition in which the lock rods and the insertion rod lie parallel to one another with longitudinal axes of the lock rods and the insertion rod occupying a triangular configuration lying on vertices of a triangle in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to said longitudinal axes.