Richard A Roy

US Patent:

41342305, Jan 16, 1979

Filed:

Apr 4, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/784168

Inventors:

Richard M. Roy - Wethersfield CT

International Classification:

E01F 1300

US Classification:

49 49

Abstract:

A starting gate for motorcycle racing of the moto-cross type including a plurality of individual U-shaped members each of which can be raised to a cocked position ahead of the front wheel of a racing motorcycle, a camming device for maintaining the member in cocked position and permitting the release of the member to allow it to drop by gravity towards and out of the way of the motorcycle, and an actuator frame having an interconnection for positioning the camming device to cock the member and means for cocking and releasing the camming device, the construction permitting the addition of a number of U-shaped members extending in either direction from the actuator frame to accommodate the starting of a variable number of racing motorcycles.

US Patent:

39356302, Feb 3, 1976

Filed:

Apr 28, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/572506

Inventors:

Richard M. Roy - Wethersfield CT

International Classification:

B23P 1904

US Classification:

29227

Abstract:

A tool permitting the changing or replacing of a shock absorber helical spring, the tool including a base on which a shock absorber is mounted in a position parallel to the base with one end of the shock absorber being restrained, a shock absorber length adjustment shaft is positioned on the base adjacent the other end of the shock absorber, a hand lever is positioned on the adjustment shaft with strategically located pins on the hand lever being inserted between coils of the spring, and the hand lever is then moveable to cause compression of the spring sufficiently far to enable removal of a spring retainer and thus removal of the spring.