Dennis Glass
General Contractor in Salt Lake City, UT

5709521, Jan 20, 1998

May 21, 1996

8/651051

Dennis Glass - Salt Lake City UT
Anthony Ferrari - San Anselmo CA

B60P 900

414462

The bicycle carrier apparatus of the invention has a commercially obtainable pneumatic or similar power lift device positioned longitudinally in and along an elongate bicycle lifting and supporting columnar standard whose lower end is pivotally mounted on a preferably rotatable turntable as part of a mounting base that is adapted for attachment, usually through longitudinal bars inserted in such base, to conventional transverse bars of the usual rooftop luggage rack of an automotive vehicle. The columnar standard includes a bicycle-securing lift bar having a height adjustable lift arm carrying a device that is attachable to the frame of a bicycle to be carried in upstanding position on the rooftop of the vehicle and that accommodates the pivotal swinging movement of such lift bar and of the columnar standard to which it is attached. Also included in the columnar standard are components that guide the power stroke of the power lift device and transfer the power thereof to the columnar standard for raising or assisting in raising it from the down position to the upstanding position.