RU2540890C1 - Drive and trailed bicycles for bicycle-train - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: drive and trailed bicycle gangs are three-seat drive bicycle gang with three bicycles integrated in signal gang and integrated by common steering control. Six-seat towed gangs are coupled by ball joint therewith to allow following in one track. Said gang consists of six monocycle of unique design, three of which are arranged in the front triplet and rear triplet. Every bicycle and very monocycle are equipped with friendly soft seats, three-speed con-rod-chain gearings with pedals to integrate biological energy of all cyclist for common drive power. All wheels of said gangs are reinforced and equipped with spring-oil 100 mm stroke shock-absorbers to damp shock caused by road irregularities. Besides they are equipped with spacious luggage racks. Brakes, flash lamps and brake lights allow for safe motion on motor roads.

EFFECT: simplified design, reduced force at negotiating of slopes.

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Description

The invention relates to the production of bicycles - land vehicles, driven by the muscular power of cyclists, and is intended for use in the field of tourism, sports and medicine, since multi-seat bicycle crews with three and six comfortable soft seats, with a pair of pedals for each, 3-speed chain transmissions, with shock absorption of each wheel, hanging luggage compartments, with clearance flashing lights and brake lights, will allow not only traveling by ordinary car abundant roads, go in for sports and tourism, but also treat joint diseases and other diseases caused by physical inactivity. The traditional hubs of all rear wheels of the cycling crews provide free coasting, that is, when the pedals do not rotate, and reliable braking when the pedals are fed in the opposite direction is “backward”. The leading bike carrier (locomotive) with three bicycles connected in a single unit, designed only for three cyclists, is three bikes of the original design, combined into a single bike carrier with integrated steering, and the subsequent six-seater bike carriers are trailed and can make up a bicycle train, in which several trailed bicycles, a reasonable amount of which remains to be studied during operation. It is supposed to set records for the number of trailed bike rides simultaneously involved in one cycle train. The use of cycle trains with trailed bike carriers can be used in various places for a wide variety of purposes, for example:

- tourist centers of cities - sightseeing;

- public transport routes in ecologically clean areas of cities closed to the movement of cars and other motorized vehicles;

- collective travel and collective tourism;

- the combination of collective walks in the fresh air with the treatment of diseases caused by physical inactivity;

- team sports competitions;

- other.

Motion control is carried out by one person, a driver who sits on an average bike in a leading bike carriage, and two others sitting on extreme bikes exercise control over the control and are ready to take control at any time. All the steering columns of the bicycles of the leading cycling crew (locomotive) are combined into one using special fasteners - steering “outriggers” and articulated ball rods.

The design of the trailer bike allows you to place six monocycles for six cyclists in two rows, that is, three in the front three and three in the rear three. Each has a comfortable soft seat and the same propulsion unit - connecting rod and chain mechanisms with pedals, which allows you to combine for a single purpose of the movement the biomass of all cyclists, as well as support structures for the hands on which the speed switch is located.

All cyclists, both in the driving bike carriage and in the trailed bike carriages, while pedaling, make their efforts to move the whole train forward, each of them has the ability to switch the chain gear to one of three speeds, and each has the ability to brake and stop the bike carriage independently both in emergency cases and on the command of the driver, which provides multiple control over traffic safety.

The design of the coupling devices is made in such a way that during driving each driven wheel of the bicycle crew repeats the trajectory of the drive wheel, and all the driven wheels of the bicycle train move “track to track” behind the drive wheels. All sizes of bike racks within the accepted automobile dimensions: the width of the bike train is 2000 mm, the track width between the wheels is 700 mm, which ensures a track width on the outer wheels of 1400 mm. The overall dimensions of the leading cycling crew are 2300 mm long and 2000 mm wide. The overall dimensions of the trailed bike carrier are 3300 mm in length and 2000 mm in width.

Several different inventions of cycle vehicles are known. Mamyrin’s cycle scooter, RU 2022864 C1, B62K 3/14 (author Mamyrin Anatoly Vladimirovich, published 11/15/1994), is a frame (chassis), composed of a spinal frontal and rear beams on which the front steering wheel ( type of car), driver's seat, passenger seat, front bumper. The movement is carried out by rotating the pedals of three people (apparently workers) in the propulsion compartment, and the driver and passenger only sit in their seats. Such a bicycle is too cumbersome, undemocratic, involving the exploitation of the physical labor of “slaves,” and cannot compete with either bicycles or cars.

Also known is the cycle car RU 2410278, B62K 5/00, author Mikhailov Aleksandr Alimovich, published August 27, 2010. The cycle car has a frame on which rear driving and front swivel wheels, chain transmissions with pedals, a seat, a steering wheel and so on are installed. The movement is carried out according to the type of movement of a water bike. The disadvantage of such a vehicle is its rather decent weight, a very long chain drive to the rear wheels, the absence of any stops (grips) for the passenger's arms, bulky seats, insufficient biomass to overcome the climbs.

Known dual bike RU 2083425 C1, B62K 13/06, one of the authors Zakharov Vladimir Pavlovich, published September 10, 1997. The twin bike contains two complete bicycles, a connecting module connected by rods with bicycle frames, and a connecting rod of the handlebars. Here, using ordinary serial bicycles and special connecting devices, the authors tried to create a two-seater bicycle. Judging by the absence of such vehicles on the roads, the idea, apparently, has not found its application.

Closest to the proposed invention is a tricycle combined bicycle, RU 2000986 C1, B62K 5/04, written by Stepan Stepanovich Kosorotov, published October 15, 1993. A front wheel with a steering wheel is mounted on a rigid lightweight spatial frame - frame, which is controlled by the type of car steering wheel the driver is located in the front compartment, and in the rear compartment there are two passengers who, like the driver, pedaling, exert their efforts to move the bike forward. The disadvantage of such a bicycle is the huge amount of unnecessary details, such as a steering column with a worm gear, a bulky frame, a complicated chain transmission of power transmission to the rear wheels, a very complex and cumbersome mechanism for turning the front wheel together with the driver's seat.

The proposed device is a leading bike carriage and a trailed bike carriage, of which there may be several, are easily coupled one after another and are a bicycle train. The leading cycling crew consists of identical bicycles of the original design, in which only the rear part of the frame is structurally different - in the middle (hereinafter “root”) bicycle it is much longer and the coupling device is located on it. Two extreme bicycles (hereinafter referred to as “buckle”) with a shortened rear of the frame are absolutely identical, universal. Each of the three bicycles is equipped with a 3-speed connecting rod and chain mechanism with pedals - pedal rotation is transmitted to the rear wheel. The rear wheels of the leading crew are equipped with conventional brake bushings, when the transmission is turned on when the pedals are turned forward, when the pedals are stopped, the bicycle crew is “coasting”, and when the pedals are turned “backward”, the brake is turned on. Each wheel of the driving bicycle crew is independent, and spring-oil shock absorbers with a stroke of up to 100 mm are installed on each, which provide soft absorption of shock from road irregularities. All three bicycles are combined into a single unit with two rigid rods on the steering columns in front, ball rods on the outriggers of the steering wheels, two rigid rods on the supporting frame structure at the rear, ball rods along the axis of rotation of the rear wheel and a special design on the rear of the frame, which is a triangle slightly truncated around the edges and at the same time is the frame of a rather roomy trunk.

Figure 1 shows the leading cycling crew, consisting of one main bicycle 1, two tightening bicycles 3, two rigid connecting rods front 4 for connecting bicycles, two rigid connecting rods rear 11 for connecting bicycles, one connecting structure, which at the same time is the frame of the trunk 7, two hinge rods connecting the steering columns 8, two hinge rods connecting the bicycles along the axis of rotation of the rear wheels 9 and the hitch 5. On the outer wheels and on the edges b There are flashing lights 10 and brake lights 12 to ensure the safety of cyclists on the roads.

Figure 2 shows the main bicycle of the leading cycling crew, consisting of the frame of the original design 1, rear wheel 2 with brake sleeve, front wheel 3, three-speed connecting rod and chain mechanism 4 with pedals 6, rear sprocket 5 with ratchet (ratchet), front fork with spring-oil shock absorbers 7 with a stroke of 100 mm, a rear fork with spring-oil shock absorbers 8 with a stroke of 100 mm, a rear hitch (ball bearing) 9, a rear wing with a mudguard 10, a supporting structure of the rear 11 for rigid fastening of bicycles to each other and fastening the connecting structure, which is simultaneously the frame of the trunk 12, the supporting structure of the front 13 for rigidly connecting the bicycles to each other, a soft comfortable saddle 14, the bicycle steering wheel 15, the steering gear 16 for articulating and adjusting all three steering wheels in one direction and the front wing with a mudguard 17.

Figure 3 shows the attachment bike of the leading bike crew, exactly corresponding to the main bike, differing from it only by a shortened rear of the frame 1 and the absence of the coupling device 9.

Figure 4 shows a trailed bike carrier, consisting of six monocycles of the original design, three of which are located in the front three and three in the rear three. In the front three are one radical monocycle 1 and two adherent monocycles 3 of the same design. In the rear three there is also one radical monocycle 2 and two adherent monocycles 3 of the same design. Each triple is equipped with a support frame for hands 6, two front rigid connecting rods 8 for connecting monocycles to each other, two rear rigid connecting rods 12 for connecting monocycles to each other, one connecting structure combined with the boot frame 7, two ball joint connecting rods adjustable in length along the axis of rotation of the wheels 11, flashing lights 10 and light brake lights 13 to ensure the safety of cyclists when driving on roads.

Figure 5 shows the main monocycle of the front three of the trailed bike carrier, consisting of the frame of the original design 1, reinforced (up to 250 kg load) wheels 2 with a brake sleeve, a rear sprocket with a ratchet (ratchet) 3, a three-speed connecting rod-chain mechanism 4 with pedals 5 , forks with spring-oil shock absorbers 6 with a stroke of 100 mm, a soft comfortable seat 7, a front ball coupler 9 with three degrees of freedom and with a support device for rigidly fastening monocycles to each other, rear coupler with two steps nyami freedom 8 which is screwed onto the thread long 100-150 mm lower frame tube and prevents rotation in the plane of the frame monocyclic ring, with the wing 10 and the mudguard support device 11 for rigid attachment monocycles each other and fixing of a connecting structure, which is also the tailgate frame 12.

Figure 6 shows the radical monocycle of the rear three of the trailer cycling crew, which differs from the front radical single cycle only in that there is a coupling device 8 that has two degrees of freedom in front - rotation in the plane of the monocycle frame is blocked, which allows you to create vertical stiffness when connecting the front triple of monocycles with the rear three monocycles inside the trailed bicycle carriage, and the rear mounted coupling device (ball joint) 9 for coupling with the subsequent bicycle carriage. With this combination of couplings, the internal vertical stiffness of the trailed bike carriage is provided, and the free rotation of the front and rear triples of the bike carriage relative to each other (on the frame thread) allows the loads arising from roughnesses in country roads to be distributed to all six wheels of the trailed bike carriage. The trailed bicycle carriage to the leading bicycle carriage, like all subsequent trailed bicycle carriages in a bicycle train, is coupled by a ball coupling according to the type of automobile ball bearing, which makes free rotations in the hinge in all three planes.

Figure 7 shows the universal universal unicycle, which can be installed in any triple from any edge and differs from the radical monocycles only in the absence of couplers and a shortened rear of the frame 1.

On Fig shows a bicycle train made up of a leading bicycle crew (locomotive) 1 and attached to it, one after another, trailed bicycle crews 2, 3 and 4, which repeat all the maneuvers of the locomotive "trace in trace" and can overcome various (within reasonable limits) ) obstacles on country roads, and also due to the fact that all bicycles and monocycles are equipped with speed switches, when pedaling all cyclists at the same time on a small driving sprocket, the total bio-power of the bicycle train is enough to overcome climbs from clones adopted in the construction of roads. The presence of a brake on each wheel of the cycle train allows you to safely overcome various descents on highways with various types of road surface coverage.

Claims (1)

The leading and trailed bike rides for a bicycle train are a triple leading cycling carriage with three bicycles connected into a single unit and integrated steering, to which six-seater trailed cyclic carriages consisting of six monocycles are coupled one after the other with ball couplers providing movement of all wheels “track to track” original design, three of which are located in the front three and three in the rear three, with each bike and each unicycle in the crews equipped with comfortable with soft seats, three-speed connecting rod and chain mechanisms with pedals, which allows you to combine the biopower of all cyclists for a single purpose of movement, all bike wheels are reinforced, equipped with spring-oil shock absorbers with a stroke of 100 mm, which allow you to gently absorb shock caused by road irregularities, also equipped with capacious carriages luggage racks, and braking devices that allow each cyclist to slow down when moving, flashing lights and brake light signals ensure safe room for a road train on roads.

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