Abstract: A two wheeled, collapsible camper-trailer for bicycles. The trailer comprises a bottom, a pair of opposed sides hingedly secured to the bottom, an open front and a partially closed rear end. The sides of the trailer when attached to the bicycle are held in an upright, substantially parallel position by conventional fastening means. With the trailer in the collapsed position, it is to serve as a vertical supporting wall for a tent. The trailer can be constructed of wire mesh or can be constructed of rigid sheet material, such as plastic.

Abstract: A combined autobicycle lock and carrier apparatus having a frame formed in the shape of a U with two legs, the width of which is at least larger than the width of the tire of the autobicycle. A locking bar is disposed between two free ends of the locking member carrier body. A locking device disposed within said bar integrally fastens the bar to the locking member-carrier body. Front and rear support members are attached to the autobicycle frame for affixing the locking member-carrier body in proper position on the frame.

Abstract: A collapsible trailer hitch to be used on a truck which has a pivoting platform for dumping, includes a Y-member attached to the chassis of the truck and a support member for the trailer tongue secured to a rotating bar journaled to the pivoting platform of the truck by mounting brackets. The support member is attached to the Y-member by means of connecting links which are pivoted at both ends. The hitch collapses and restores automatically upon pivoting of the platform.

Abstract: Truck apparatus for skate and skateboard devices including an elongated kingpin, means for affixing the upper end of the kingpin to the bottom of a load carrying platform at a selected angle and having a member disposed midway along the length of the kingpin and a friction surface and stop means, a wheel axle carriage assembly pivotally affixed to the lower end of the kingpin and adapted to rotate about the axis of the kingpin and having a second friction surface and stop lugs, a resilient drag sleeve and turn restoring element compressively disposed between the first and second friction surfaces, and a lock nut for selectively urging the carriage assembly toward the mid-portioned member so as to compress the drag sleeve between the first and second friction surfaces with a predetermined compression force such that the carriage assembly may be resistively and partially resiliently rotated about the axis of the kingpin within a range determined by the interaction of the stop lugs and the stop means and with a

Abstract: A steering lock device comprises a locking bolt capable of locking a steering shaft of a motor vehicle when moved in a first direction, a spring for biasing the bolt to move in the first direction, a lifting mechanism for moving the locking bolt in the opposite direction against the force of the spring and finally holding the locking bolt in the unlocking state wherein the locking bolt unlocks the steering shaft, and a solenoid disposed about the locking bolt to cause the bolt to be kept in the unlocking state, under energization of the solenoid, even when the lifting mechanism ceases to hold the locking bolt in the unlocking state.

Abstract: In an automobile windshield structure in which a windshield glass is adhesively attached to a body frame, a clip device for installing a moulding along the peripheral edge portion of the glass comprises first and second lip members. The first clip member is adapted to be attached to the peripheral edge of the glass and has guide channels for slidably receiving cooperating slide portions in the second clip member. The first clip member has a retaining pawl which is adapted to engage with indentations on the second clip member so that the second clip member is prevented from moving in one direction with respect to the first clip member but movable in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An articulated vehicle includes front and rear vehicle portions connected by a floating connector member having upper and lower vertically aligned pivot connections to the rear vehicle portion and horizontally aligned front and rear pivot connections to the front vehicle portion with wear takeup means in the pivot connections.

Abstract: A straight drive shaft type engine mounted transversely of a vehicle is provided with a centrally bored drive shaft surrounding a wheel axle having a wheel connected with its respective remote ends. A primary clutch moves a friction disk slip-spline mounted on the axle into driving engagement with a flange on one end of the drive shaft for rotating the axle at the speed of and in the direction of engine drive shaft rotation. A secondary clutch, to be engaged when the primary clutch is disengaged, moves a driving gear into friction engagement with a second flange mounted on the other end portion of the engine drive shaft to connect a transmission with the axle for gear driving or moving the vehicle in reverse.

Abstract: A hitch arrangement for use between a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle such as a trailer, particularly for stabilizing a generally upright load such as a motorcycle against tilting as the towing and towed vehicles move through a turn. The hitch includes an inextensible elongate pliable element and tie down members connecting the element and the load.

Abstract: A passive safety seat belt system having at least one member slidable in response to the opening-closing of a door of a vehicle is characterized by an elongated member having immovable one end lying at a suitable location on the body of the vehicle and the movable other end lying at a suitable location on the inside of the door and vice versa, and a link mechanism including lever mechanism pivotally supported on the inside of the door or the body. The lever mechanism serves to amplify and transmit the movement of the movable end of the elongated member to slide the slidable member.

Abstract: A passive seatbelt system which includes a guide rail fastened longitudinally to a roof side of a vehicle, a truck movable along the guide rail, a seatbelt which has one end connected to the truck, a slide rail provided adjacent the guide rail and having one end coupled to the guide rail and the other end fastened to a roof support of the vehicle, a flexible tape provided in the slide rail and having one end coupled to the truck a moving means coupled to the flexible tape for causing movement of the flexible tape whereby the seatbelt is caused to approach or recede from a seated passenger to thereby automatically fasten or unfasten the seatbelt.

Abstract: A three-point tractor hitch system includes a coupling hook structure as the upper link thereof formed with a hook body defining a concave recess for receiving therein in locking engagement a coupling sphere. A locking bolt received within a rectilinear opening extends into the concave recess of the hook body with a curved locking surface adapted to engage the contour of the coupling sphere. The locking bolt is pivotally mounted at its opposite end to a control lever having a generally U-shaped recess formed therein to engage a bearing pin mounted on the hook body. The U-shaped recess has lateral sides arranged so that imaginary extensions thereof will intersect the axis of the locking bolt and bearing means are interposed between the control lever and the hook body on a side of the pivotal coupling of the locking bolt to the hook body opposite the side on which the U-shaped recess is formed.

Abstract: A servomotor drives a steering gear through a pair of clutch drums to provide power assist in the proper rotational direction upon engagement of one of the clutch drums in response to manual torque applied to a steering shaft causing torsional displacement between its shaft sections interconnected by a torsion bar. The clutch drums are continuously driven in opposite directions by the servomotor through gearing and are respectively engaged by jaws mounted on a pair of clutch carriers respectively keyed to the shaft sections of the steering shaft.

Abstract: A vehicle for the selective transport of a piece load or a bulk load has a container including a bottom constituting, at least in part, a funnel having a discharge opening, a top closure arranged above the bottom and collapsible side walls attached to the bottom and the top closure. The side walls are formed of a plurality of relatively rigid side wall elements having, in a lowered position of the top closure, a collapsed state in which they are stacked with respect to one another between the top closure and the bottom. In the collapsed state of the side walls the upper face of the top closure serves as a loading platform for a piece load. The side walls further have, in a raised position of the top closure, an erected state in which the side wall elements together contiguously form sealed side walls.

Abstract: A kick stand for a motorcycle which is pivotally connected at the frame and is pivotal into a swung-out parking position against the action of a spring retaining the kick stand in the swung-in driving position; the kick stand is thereby forcibly pivoted into the driving position at the beginning of the drive by an actuating mechanism.

Abstract: A field sensor control mechanism for doors and the like has two or more insulated electrodes mounted at different levels in the leading edge of a door or the like. A first oscillating circuit is connected with one of these electrodes and a second oscillating circuit, separate from the first one and serving as a comparison circuit for the same, is connected to the other electrode. The two circuits have base oscillating frequencies which are either identical or differ only slightly from one another. The circuits are so coupled to one another that the oscillations of the first circuit vary as a function of capacitance changes taking place in the electrodes.

Abstract: A compensating hitch adapted to be coupled between a three-point draft system at the rear end of a wheeled tractor and the front end of a trailing earthworking implement which is wheel supported rearwardly of an earthworking blade thereof; the hitch including a link and lever array which functions to maintain the implement and its earthworking blade in a constant pre-set working position when the tractor traverses uneven ground, and which--with a conventional hitch--would cause the trailing implement and its blade to undesirably vary up and down from such constant pre-set working position.

Abstract: A transfer valve assembly controls the change-over in the supply of pressurized fluid to a steering servomotor from engine driven and vehicle driven pumps. The outflow rate of fluid from the engine driven pump is metered to control shift of the transfer valve assembly between its two operating positions preventing any delay or overlap in the change-over between pumps because of low or residual output pressure from the engine driven pump.

Abstract: A motorcycle engine mounting structure having a head tube (23), a main frame pipe (21) extended rearwardly from the head tube, and an engine (60). In order to increase the freedom of design for mounting an engine and to ensure a radiator mounting space, a pair of supporting members (40, 50; 240, 250) are suspended from the front part of the main frame (21), and the engine (60) is supported in the front part through the supporting members.

Abstract: A two wheeled, rider propelled vehicle having both wheels pivotably mounted upon a medial principal frame. The pivotable rear wheel frame supports pedal mechanism propelling the rear wheel and may be steered by the feet of the user. Mechanical biasing means communicate between the pivotable rear wheel frame and main frame to bias motion and a latching mechanism allows fixed positioning of the two members. A vertically adjustable seat is fixedly carried by the principal frame and the forward portion of the vehicle provides a traditional manually steerable, pivotably mounted front wheel frame.