Apparatus, method, and system for storing a vehicle accessory
View Patent ↗An apparatus, method, and system for storing a vehicle accessory, for example on a wall, that utilizes an attachment structure which simulates at least part of the attachment structure to which the motor vehicle accessory attaches to a vehicle, so that the same attachment structure used to attach the accessory to the vehicle is used, at least, in part to store on a wall or other supporting structure.
1. In combination a pair of brackets each having an attachment structure and adapted for storing a removable motorcycle windshield on a support structure off of a motorcycle and the motorcycle windshield having a pair of spaced apart mounts each having an attachment structure adapted for releasable attachment to the motorcycle by the attachment structure on the motorcycle windshield, which releasably attaches to corresponding attachment structure on the motorcycle, comprising:
(a) the attachment structure on each mount of the motorcycle windshield comprising female receivers each having an open end with a width and a length;
(b) the attachment structure on each bracket, which simulates corresponding attachment structure on the motorcycle, comprising male members each having a diameter less than or equal in width to the socket;
(c) the attachment structure on the motorcycle windshield further comprising a pair of separated said sockets along an axis with open ends facing an attachment direction; and the attachment structure on the bracket further comprising a pair of bosses aligned along an axis wherein attachment of the bosses through the open ends of the sockets is allowed when the motorcycle windshield is attached to the bracket;
(d) so that the motorcycle windshield can be removably stored off the motorcycle onto the support structure by releasable attachment to the brackets using the attachment structure of each bracket instead of the attachment structure on the motorcycle.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the attachment structure on the windshield and on the motorcycle comprises cooperating elements that when operatively connected restrain movement of the windshield relative to the motorcycle in at least one direction.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the restraint of movement is in at least two directions.
4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein restraint of movement of the attachment structure on the motorcycle or the windshield includes a releasable locking mechanism.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the sockets of the pair of separated sockets having open ends facing different directions.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the different directions are generally perpendicular.
7. A method of storing off of a motorcycle a removable motorcycle windshield which is releasably attachable to the motorcycle by a pair of spaced apart mounts each having attachment structure that releasably attaches to corresponding attachment structure on the motorcycle the attachment structure on the windshield comprising female receivers each having an open end with a width and length, comprising:
(a) simulating at least some of the attachment structure of the motorcycle on a pair of brackets adapted for mounting to a supporting structure apart from the motorcycle, the attachment structure comprising male members each having a diameter less than or equal in width to the socket;
(b) the attachment structure on the motorcycle windshield further comprising a pair of separated said sockets along an axis with open ends facing an attachment direction; and the attachment structure on the bracket further comprising a pair of bosses aligned along an axis, wherein attachment of the bosses through the open ends of the sockets is allowed when the motorcycle windshield is attached to the bracket;
(c) storing the motorcycle windshield apart from the motorcycle by utilizing at least some of its attachment structure to attach to the simulated attachment structure of the brackets.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the motorcycle windshield is several feet by several feet in perimeter dimension.
9. The method of claim 7 wherein the motorcycle windshield has a pair of sockets each oriented in different directions and adapted to receive a boss.
10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the support structure comprises a wall of a building.
11. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a second pair of separated sockets adapted to cooperate with a second set of bosses.