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US 4,062,557 AGranted
Eight wheel skateboard
OwnerHarry F. Rodeninventor
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Abstract
A skateboard has front and rear trucks each supporting four wheels centrally pivoted to the axle on the undercarriages of the skateboard normally provided for the conventional type front and rear wheels. Each truck can rock about its central pivot on the axis and thereby reduce the amplitude of small bumps experienced by the board successively passed over by the leading and trailing wheels of each truck.
Claims3
An eight-wheel skateboard having front and rear under carriage structures supporting front and rear axles;
- and front and rear wheel trucks, each of said wheel trucks comprising a rectangular frame including longitudinal and transverse sides, and having four wheels rotatably mounted adjacent to its four corners, respectively, an intermediate point of each of the longitudinal sides of said rectangular frame being pivoted to the axle of an associated under carriage for rocking movement;
- and, stop means secured to the front and rear under carriage structures and passing over the innermost transverse sides of the rectangular frames to limit the rocking movement of the trucks to a given degree.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.