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US 10,471,336 B2Granted
Skates with a stowable and/or removable roller, blade, ski, or track assembly, and related methods of use
OwnerDustin Dharmainventor
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Abstract
A skate with a stowable and/or removable roller, blade, ski, or track assembly. A skate has: a shoe; a guiding part mounted to the shoe; a roller, blade, ski, or track assembly mounted to move along the guiding part between a deployed position and a stowed position adjacent a calf or ankle part of the shoe; and a handle connected to move the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly between the deployed position and the stowed position. Related methods include moving the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly between the positions, and locking or unlocking the assembly in either position, for example using a handle.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- unlocking a roller, blade, ski, or track assembly from a deployed position on a shoe, in which a handle is connected to the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly;
- applying a force to the handle to move the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly, via the force, along a guiding part into a stowed position adjacent a calf or ankle part of the shoe;
- locking the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly to the shoe in the stowed position;
- in which the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly is one or more of unlocked from the deployed position or locked in the stowed position using the handle;
- in which the handle forms a lever that is connected to lock and unlock the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly in the deployed position;
- in which the lever is connected to pivot relative to the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly to lock and unlock the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly in the deployed position;
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- in which the lever is connected to actuate a locking part that engages and disengages a locking part receiver of the guiding part to lock and unlock, respectively, the roller, blade, ski, or track assembly in the deployed position.
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