Pannier for cycles

Claim 1

A pannier type device, for fixing removably to a cycle rear luggage carrier of the kind having a horizontal frame with crossbars and supported by lateral uprights for connection to two legs of a rear fork of the cycle, said device having a transverse vertical section substantially in the form of an inverted ''''L'''' whose horizontal upper part is fitted with means for fixing to the frame of the luggage carrier, said fixing means comprising upper strips to engage under cross members of said frame, the vertical lower part of the device carrying a lower strip to engage the inner surface of an upright of the luggage carrier, wherein a first of said upper strips for fixing the device to the frame of the luggage carrier comprises a bent plate attached longitudinally to an extremity of the lower surface of said upper part of the device and having a part to engage under a first transverse side member of the frame of the luggage carrier and another part to bear on the inner surface of the said first transverse side of the frame and against the inner portion of the longitudinal side of the said frame corresponding thereto, and wherein a second of said upper strips in detachably connected to the lower surface of the upper part of the device and situated against the inner and lower portion of the said second transverse side member of the frame of the luggage carrier and also against the inner portion of the corresponding longitudinal side of this frame, said lower attachment strip pointing in the same direction as said fixed upper strip.