JPH0674596U - Bicycle tool holder - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a bicycle tool holding device capable of holding the minimum amount of tools necessary for emergency repair or adjustment of a bicycle directly and safely on a bicycle frame. The purpose is to do. [Structure] A back portion extending along the side surface of a drinking water bottle, a holding portion extending from the lower end of the back portion so as to hold the bottom portion or front portion of the drinking water bottle, and a bracket for attaching the back portion to a bicycle frame. And a tool holding portion for elastically inserting and holding the shaft portion of the tool.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a bicycle tool holding device, and more particularly, to a bicycle tool holding device capable of safely and conveniently attaching to a bicycle frame the minimum necessary tools for emergency repair of a bicycle.

[0002]

[Problems to be solved by conventional techniques and devices]

 Bicycles consist of various parts that are attached to a bicycle frame. Wheels are attached to the front fork and bag fork of the frame. A seat post or a saddle attached to the upper end of the seat post is fixed to the seat pipe (stand pipe) of the frame. A handle bar is attached to the handle post. Left and right brake levers are attached to the handlebar, and an operation cable connects this brake lever and the front and rear brake bodies. A gear crank device is attached to the bottle bracket of the frame, and a chain is hung between the gear crank device and the free wheel of the rear wheel hub. If the freewheel is a multi-stage freewheel, a rear transmission (rear derailleur) is provided for changing the chain to one of the freewheel sprockets. Also, when using a multi-stage type with multiple front gears installed side by side on the gear crank, a front derailleur for changing the chain to one sprocket in this front gear is attached to the frame. To be The front transmission or the rear transmission is operated by a shift lever device attached to an appropriate portion of the frame. An operation cable is usually connected between the shift lever device and the transmission.

As described above, various parts are attached to the frame of the bicycle, and the screw means is most often used as the means for attaching the parts. In addition, this screw means is being standardized so that it can be handled with as few types of tools as possible. Then, so that the simplest and most compact so-called Arren key can be used as a tool, so-called hexagon socket head bolts tend to be adopted as the screw means for attaching the above-mentioned various parts, especially as the bolts. .

By the way, recently, off-road traveling bicycles such as mountain bikes have become popular. In the case of such an off-road bicycle, since it travels in the remote mountainous area, the minimum tools necessary for the first aid so that it is possible to take the first aid by itself for troubles such as damage to parts. Need to carry. This is because there is no other means of transportation as in the case of driving on the street, and there is not always a cycle shop etc. that asks for repairs.

As described above, the tools required for mounting, adjusting, or repairing parts have been standardized, miniaturized, and lightened, but the following problems are involved in carrying them. there were.

For example, it is possible to attach a storage bag to a bicycle frame and put a tool in the storage bag. However, in such a case, there is a problem that the tool flickers in the bag and other clothes and the like put in the bag are contaminated by the oil attached to the tool. It is possible to load only the tool into a small container and put it in the above bag. However, there is a high possibility that you forget to put such a tool storage container in the bag.

It is also conceivable that a passenger puts a tool in a pocket of clothes and carries it. However, in such a case, there is another danger that the tool in the pocket may hurt the occupant's body during a fall, which is not recommended.

Further, a method of directly attaching the tool to the bicycle frame can be considered. However, there has been no safe and reliable place to attach the tool to the bicycle frame in the past, and the current situation is to use a primitive method such as attaching the tool to the frame with cellophane tape or gum tape. .

The present invention has been devised under the circumstances as described above, and it provides safe, reliable, easy-to-use bicycles with minimum tools necessary for first aid for a bicycle. It is an object of the present invention to provide a bicycle tool holding device that can be mounted on a frame.

[0010]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to solve the above problems, the present invention takes the following technical means.

That is, as described in claim 1 of the present application, the bicycle tool holding device of the present invention has a back portion extending along a side surface of a drinking water bottle, and a lower end of the back portion of the drinking water bottle. In a bicycle bottle cage including a holding portion extending so as to hold a bottom portion or a front portion and a bracket portion for attaching the back portion to a bicycle frame, elastically inserted and held in the bracket portion with a tool shaft portion. It is characterized by forming a tool holder.

The tool holding portion can be configured, for example, by fitting a resin bush body capable of elastically inserting and holding the tool into a pipe integrally formed with the bracket portion (claim 2).

The most suitable tool to be held by the bicycle tool holding device of the present invention is an Allen key (hexagon wrench) (claim 3).

[0014]

[Function and effect of device]

 The bicycle tool holding device of the present invention is equipped with a bottle cage that holds and holds a drinking water bottle in the frame of most sports type bicycles. It is designed so that it can be held easily.

The bottle cage was conceived in order to easily attach the drinking water bottle to the bicycle frame, but naturally, the bottle cage has a position and shape in consideration of its safety and convenience. . The bottle of drinking water that should be attached to this bottle cage is usually a bottle with a smooth round, so there is little possibility of contact with the body and there is no risk of injury even if it touches the body. As such, safety is considered.

The bicycle tool holding device according to the present invention is for attaching the bicycle bottle cage, which is conceived and constructed as described above, to the bicycle frame, particularly the back portion thereof. The tool holding part is formed on the bracket part. The reason for doing this is as follows. In other words, the drinking water bottle can be mounted at a position where it does not interfere with traveling without touching the legs of the occupant, but its front view projected area is relatively large. In the present invention, the tool holding portion is formed on the above bracket portion formed so as to be completely hidden in the front projection plane of such a drinking water bottle, and the tool held by the tool holding portion is The projection of the drinking water bottle, which is conveniently hidden in the front projection plane and touches the body of an occupant riding a bicycle, is prevented.

Although the tools held by the bicycle tool holding device of the present invention are hidden in the front projection plane of the drinking water bottle held in the bottle cage, this tool is seen from the side of the bicycle. Since the holder is exposed, it is extremely convenient to mount and remove tools from the tool holder.

Moreover, since the tool holding portion is adapted to elastically insert and hold the shaft portion of the tool, no complicated operation is required to hold the tool shaft portion, and the tool holding portion is simply attached to the holding portion. By simply inserting the tool shaft, it is possible to hold the tool very easily and securely.

Further, as described in claim 2 of the present application, if the resin holding body is fitted in the pipe portion as the tool holding portion, the tool to be inserted can be elastically held conveniently. In addition, it is possible to easily set various shapes of the bush body according to the thickness of the tool so that the tool having various thicknesses can be conveniently held.

As described above, according to the bicycle tool holding device of the present invention, the minimum necessary tools for repairing the bicycle or adjusting parts are mounted on the bicycle safely and easily. Will be able to. The invention of the present application is particularly useful for off-road running bicycles such as mountain bikes in which passengers have to take measures themselves when trouble occurs.

[0021]

[Explanation of Examples]

 Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.

1 to 5 show a first embodiment of a bicycle tool holding device 1 according to the present invention.

On the stand pipe or / and the lower pipe 2 (stand pipe in the example shown in the figure) of the bicycle frame, for example, by brazing a nut or the like, two mounting screw holes 3 for mounting at a predetermined distance are provided. , 3 are provided, to which the bottle cage 4 can be attached. The interval between the mounting screw holes 3 and 3 is fixed, and any bottle cage can be selected and mounted.

The bottle cage 4 can be easily held by inserting a cylindrical drinking water bottle 5 from above. In the example shown in the figure, the bottle cage 4 includes a back portion 6 that extends vertically along the back surface of the drinking water bottle 5, and a bottom portion of the back portion 6 that extends forward from the bottom of the bottle 5 to the upper side. A holding portion 7 that rises and extends so as to hold the front portion of the bottle 5 is configured. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, the bottle cage 4 is generally formed by bending a metal rod member or a pipe member. The back portion 6 is formed with a bracket portion 9 for attaching the back portion 6 to the attachment screw holes 3 and 3 of the frame 2 by using attachment bolts 8 and 8. The bracket portion 9 has through holes 10 formed at intervals corresponding to the distance between the two mounting screw holes 3 and 3.

As is apparent from the above, when mounting the bottle cage 4, the mounting bolts 8 and 8 which are passed through the through holes 10 and 10 of the bracket portion 9 are attached to the two mounting screw holes 3 and 3 of the frame. Do this by screwing in each. As the bolts 8 and 8, hexagon socket head cap screws which can be tightened with an Allen key are suitable.

In the present invention, the bracket 9 of the bottle cage 4 is provided with the tool holding portion 11 capable of elastically inserting and holding the shaft portion of the tool T.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the metal plate material forming the bracket portion 9 is extended to the left and right, and the metal plate material is wound in a roll shape to form a pair of left and right pipe portions 12. 12 is provided, bushes 13 and 13 made of resin are fitted into the pipe portions 12 and 12, respectively.

As well shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the bush body 13 has an inner hole 14 capable of elastically and densely holding the shaft portion of the tool T to be held, and has an upper end. The flange portion 15 is formed on. The lower part of the shaft portion of the bush body 13 is separated into four separation pieces 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d by four slits, and the lower end outer surfaces of the four separation pieces are engaged with each other. The claw 16 is formed. Therefore, the four separating pieces can be reduced in diameter as a whole as long as the slit separating them is lost.

The bush body 13 having the above-described configuration is automatically and permanently retained in the pipe portion 12 by simply inserting it into the pipe portion 12 from above. That is, when the bush body 13 is inserted from the upper portion of the pipe portion 12, the lower four separating pieces 13a, 13b, 13c, and 13d are reduced in diameter as a whole, but when they are inserted into the pipe portion by a predetermined amount. The respective separating pieces automatically expand elastically and the engaging claws 16 on the outer surface thereof engage with the lower end of the pipe portion 13. By setting the distance between the flange portion 15 and the engaging claw 16 on the outer surface of each of the separation pieces 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d to the axial length of the pipe portion 12, the above-described operation is performed. As a result, the bush body 13 automatically installed in the pipe portion is securely held in the attached state without rattling and without being accidentally detached. Although not shown, if a protrusion is provided on a part of the flange portion 15 and a notch for engaging the protrusion is provided on the upper end of the pipe portion 12, the bush body 13 rotates carelessly in the assembled state. This is convenient because it will not be done.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, as described above, a pair of left and right tool holding portions 11 having the above-mentioned configuration are formed. And, the Allen keys T, T having different thicknesses are elastically inserted and held in the pair of tool holding portions 11, 11. Therefore, the inner hole 14 of the resin bush bodies 13, 13 fitted and held in each pipe portion 12 has a size corresponding to the thickness of the shaft portion of the Allen key to be inserted.

As described above, in the bicycle tool holding device 1 of the present invention, the predetermined tool holding portion 11 is formed on the bracket portion 9 of the bicycle bottle cage 4 which is usually attached to a sports bicycle. . In particular, as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the drinking water bottle 5 to be mounted in the bottle cage 4 is arranged so as not to interfere with running such as touching the legs of the passenger. However, the front projection area is relatively large. Therefore, when the tool holding portion 11 is provided on the bracket portion 9 and the tool T is inserted into the tool holding portion 11, the inserted and held tool T is hidden with sufficient margin in the front view projected area of the drinking water bottle 5. Therefore, there is no concern that the held tools T project as a protrusion to the side of the bicycle and damage the occupant's body.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the tool inserted and held in the tool holder 11 is hidden in the drinking water bottle within the projected area of the front view, but from the side. Exposed. That is, it is exposed between the bicycle frame pipe 2 and the drinking water bottle 5. Therefore, it is possible to easily perform the operation of inserting and holding the tool T in the tool holding portion 11 or taking out the inserted and held tool, and therefore, the handling is extremely easy.

The ease of handling is also achieved because the tool T is securely elastically held by simply inserting the tool T into the tool holder 11. Is there.

6 and 7 show a second embodiment of the bicycle tool holding device 1 according to the present invention.

In this embodiment, the bracket portion 9 to be provided on the back portion of the bottle cage 4 is divided into two separate upper and lower portions, and two tool holding portions 11 are formed in each of the bracket portions, two in total. The specific shape of the tool holding portions 11 ... Is similar to that of the first embodiment, a pipe portion 12 is formed in a part of a member forming the bracket portion 9, and a resin bush body 13 is formed in the pipe portion 12. It is configured by inserting. As the structure of the bush body 13, the same structure as in the first embodiment can be adopted.

The basic function and effect of this configuration are similar to those of the above-described first embodiment. In the present embodiment, the number of tools T to be inserted and held can be increased, and the coping ability in an extraordinary manner can be improved accordingly.

FIG. 8 shows a third embodiment of the bicycle tool holding device 1 of the present invention.

In this embodiment, a pressing plate 17 having a circular arc inner surface portion 17 a is attached to the inner surface of the bracket portion 9 of the bottle cage 4 with a screw 18, and the circular arc inner surface portion 17 a of the pressing plate 17 is attached to the bracket portion 9. The insertion holding space for the tool T is formed in cooperation with the corner portion of the tool. The pressing plate 17 can be formed of an elastic thin metal plate. Therefore, if the diameter of the tool holding space is set to be slightly smaller than the diameter of the tool to be held, the pressing plate 17 is inserted into the holding space. The tool T is elastically held by the spring action of the pressing plate.

Also in this embodiment, the tool T is conveniently hidden in the front projection plane of the drinking water bottle 5 to maintain safety, and the convenience of taking out and mounting from the side of the bicycle is highly maintained. The basic action and effect of being performed can be exhibited. Further, since the elastic thin plate is formed in a predetermined shape and is attached to the bracket portion 9, it has a simple structure, so that it can be performed at a lower cost than the above-described embodiment. .

In this embodiment, the pressing plate 17 may be attached to the bracket portion 9 by the screw 18 or may be fixed by other fixing means such as welding.

As described above, according to the bicycle tool holding device of the present invention, the minimum tools necessary for the first aid of the bicycle can be made into a bicycle that is easy to handle while maintaining safety. It can be equipped, which makes it extremely convenient for off-road vehicles such as mountain bikes.

Of course, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. The concrete shape of the bottle cage itself may be any shape as long as the drinking water bottle can be inserted and held from above. Recently, in addition to bending and welding a metal rod member or a metal pipe member, this bottle cage is also formed by resin molding. However, this bottle cage typically has a back along the back of the drinking water bottle and a retainer which cooperates with the back to embrace the bottom or front of the drinking water bottle. There is no change in terms.

Further, the configuration of the tool holding portion for holding the tool is not limited to the above-described specific configuration, and the point is that tools having an axial portion such as an Allen key are elastically inserted and retained. Anything that can be held is included in the scope of the present invention.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a first embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a side view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 3 is a rear view of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV in FIG.

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line VV of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a rear view showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a sectional view taken along line VII-VII of FIG.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of a bracket portion showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Bicycle Tool Holding Device 2 Frame 4 Bottle Cage 5 Drinking Water Bottle 6 Back Part 7 Holding Part 9 Bracket Part 11 Tool Holding Part 12 Pipe Part 13 Bushing Part T Tool

Claims (3)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A back portion extending along a side surface of a drinking water bottle, a holding portion extending from a lower end of the back portion so as to hold a bottom portion or a front portion of the drinking water bottle, and for attaching the back portion to a bicycle frame. In the bicycle bottle cage, the tool holder for a bicycle is characterized in that a tool holding portion for elastically inserting and holding the shaft portion of the tool is formed in the bracket portion. 2. The tool holding portion, a pipe portion formed integrally with the bracket portion, and fitted into the pipe portion,
The bicycle tool holding device according to claim 1, further comprising a resin bush body capable of elastically inserting and holding the tool. 3. The bicycle tool holding device according to claim 1, wherein the tool is an Allen key.