Removable trainer handle and brake for skateboard

The combination of a trainer handle and brake for removable attachment to a skateboard and the like, the skateboard having transversely spaced front and rear wheel sets comprising:

• a handle strut;
• a handle bar fastened to one end of said strut;
• clamping means secured at the other end of said strut for clamping said strut to the front end of a skateboard in upstanding relation thereto, said clamping means including an upper jaw extending substantially perpendicular to said strut, a lower jaw underlying said upper jaw, and means for moving said jaws together and apart for attaching and detaching said clamping means relative to the front end of the skateboard;
• a pair of transversely spaced brake shoes, means pivotally supporting said spaced brake shoes beneath the lower jaw of said clamp to overlie the front wheels of the skateboard;
• a lever arm connected to said brake shoes;
• a brake handle pivotally supported on said handle strut adjacent said handle;
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• brake operating linkage means connecting said brake handle with said lever arm for pivoting said brake shoes against the top of said front wheel set when said brake handle is actuated from a normal position and for disengaging said brake shoes from said front wheel set when said brake handle is released,
• said upper and lower jaws being elongated channel members the upper jaw channel member being open in the upper direction and the lower jaw channel member being open in the downward direction, the end of said strut to which the clamping means is secured having a rigid right angle extension secured in one end of said upper jaw channel member and said brace having a base portion secured in the other end of said upper channel member from said right angle extension.