Patent ID: 6953181

Claim:
A universal bracket for accepting and carrying a bicycle rack thereon, the bicycle rack being of type having a square shaped mount bar associated therewith for mounting onto a typical vehicle hitch and provided with hanging brackets for lockingly hanging at least one bicycle therefrom, the universal bracket being capable of mounting on a vertical underlying support surface and a horizontal underlying support surface, comprising, a support base formed by a flat plate bounded by side edges and having mounting apertures formed therein, a stanchion fixedly mounted on said base extending upwardly therefrom, a first carrying tube provided with a mount tube carried thereon and extending downwardly therefrom, said mount tube being sized to override and slidingly mount onto said stanchion and be rotatable with respect thereto, a second carrying tube fixedly secured to set first carrying tube at a 90° angle with respect thereto, and lock means provided as between said stanchion and said mount tube to lockingly engage said mount tube to said stanchion in a desired rotated position, whereby said bicycle rack maybe removed from a vehicle hitch and positioned on one of said carrying tubes tube by inserting said mount bar of the bicycle rack in one of said first and second carrying tubes and lockingly engaged in position without first removing the bicycles therefrom.