The present invention relates to a bicycle stand, which include a groove, clamp or suchlike for the taking-up of one bicycle wheel, so that the wheel is supported and therefore gets the bicycle into an upright position.

The purpose of the invention is to try to effectively solve the problem of preventing bicycle theft, when the bicycle is parked in the bicycle stand and is locked with the ordinary ring-shape lock or the block lock of the bicycle, without having to use a special lockable chain or wire, whereby the bicycle is chained to the bicycle stand, or a completing lock on the bicycle stand itself, whereby the bicycle is locked to the bicycle stand.

The invention is, in this purpose, based on the fact, that the ring-shaped lock or the block lock of the bicycle shall enable not only the locking of one of the bicycle wheels, normally the rear one, so that it does not rotate, but also the locking of the bicycle to the bicycle stand through the normal locking procedure. In order to achieve this, an arrangement has been made on a bicycle stand, of the kind mentioned above, the characteristics of which appear from the patent claim 1.

In order to explain the invention more in detail, the invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which

FIG 1 is a plan view of a double bicycle stand, arranged in accordance with the invention,

FIG 2 is a frontal view of the bicycle stand in FIG 1,

FIG 3 is a side view of the bicycle stand in FIG 1 and 2 and FIG 4 is a side view of a simple bicycle stand, arrang in accordance with the invention.

With reference to FIG 1-3 the double bicycle stand, displaye herein, which also can be combined with several bicycle stan of this' design, arranged in a row, includes a couple of base tubes 10, which strefch parallelly ^' and can be anchored to the ground in a suitable manor. A couple of clamps 11, made of round bar or tube, are welded onto these tubes, which are designed in the described way in order to take up a whee of a bicycle, which is shown with dashed and dotted lines in FIG 3. In accordance with the invention, the purpose is, tha the rear wheel of the bicycle is to be placed in the clamp 1 when the bicycle is parked in the bicycle stand, shown in FIG 3. The clamp 11 holds the rear wheel and thereby the bicycle in an upright position and this way of parking a bicycle is old and wellknown. The clamp 11 can be replaced by any other arrangement functioning in the same way, for example a plate groove or a groove in a moulded block.

At the side of each clamp 11 is a standard arranged on each of the two tubes and these two standards are connected with a web 13 arranged between them, whereby standards and web are manufactured in one piece out of tube or round bar. The standard 12 is not upright but has an inclined position, whereby its inclination and position essentially correspond to the inclination and the position of the rear fork of the bicycle, which is parked in the bicycle stand belonging to the standard. On each standard is an arm 14 revolvingly and displacably mounted by a casing 15, whereby the arm shoots out on one side of the casing in order to form a handle 16 and also shoots out on the other side of the casing, where the arm in its free end is provided with an oval loop 17, the level of which is placed transversely to the arm. Onto the standard 12 a clamp is welded, which limits the displace ment of the casing 15 to merely a part of the length of the standard, in the upper part of the standard.

When the bicycle is to be parked in the bicycle stand, the arm 14 is turned to the position shown to the left in FIG 3, so that the rear wheel of the bicycle can be rolled into the clamp 11 at will. Thereafter the arm 14 is turned to the position to the right shown in FIG 3, whereby the loop 17 comes close to the wheel and the height position of the loop is adjusted by a displacement of the casing 15 along the standard 12, so that when the bicycle is locked with the conventional ring-shaped lock or the block lock, normally fitted on the rear fork of the bicycle, you not only guide this through the wheel but also through the loop 17, whereby you through the lock, lock the wheel, which prevents it from rotating, and at the same time lock the bicycle to the standard.

At the simple bicycle stand, in accordance with FIG 4, the arrangement is the same as described earlier but the standar 12 does not pass at the web 13 into another standard but into a brace 12, whereby standard and brace are fastened separately to each of the two parallelly running tubes 10. The function is of course the same as for the double bicycle stand.

In order to enable for the loop 17 to be simply guided into the ring-shaped lock or the block lock of the bicycle, it is preferably adjusted to the arm 14 at one side, so that it shoots out on the side of the arm 14, but it is also possibl to adjust the loop to the arm in its lower part. The incli¬ nation and placing of the standard 12 must be adjusted to the position of the bicycle in the bicycle stand, when the rear wheel of the bicycle is taken up into the clamp 11, in order to be able to guide the loop 17, without difficulty to a position near the rear wheel, place it in its open ring- shaped lock or block lock, so that the loop then easily is brought into catch with the lock through the locking proce¬ dure. If the adjustment has been done correctly for a bicycl the arrangement will also fit other bicycle sizes and other makings, as the placing of the lock does not vary very much

from one making to another and the adjustment to various sizes is done through the displacement of the casing 15 along the standard 12.