Roller skate sole
OwnerGary Griminventor
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Abstract
A flexible sole that can be attached by a skater to his roller skates to immobilize the wheels and provide a sole surface for relatively normal walking. The sole includes an elongated sheet with releasable mounting members at opposite ends. The mounting members may be attached to the skate in such a manner that the sheet is drawn tautly over the wheels. The wheels are engaged by an upper surface of the sheet while a bottom surface functions as a relatively stationary walking surface.
Claims16
A movable flexible sole for releasable attachment to a roller skate having longitudinally spaced front and rear pairs of wheels at the respective front and rear ends of the skate to cover the wheels and hold them immobile and to allow relatively normal walking by one wearing the roller skate, said sole comprising:
- an elongated sheet of flexible material having opposed ends and first and second opposed outer surfaces extending between said ends;
- said sheet having a transverse width dimension greater than transverse spacing between paired wheels of the roller skate;
- first and second releasable mounting means at the respective sheet ends for selectively attaching the sheet to the front and rear ends of the skate with the sheet taut and the first sheet surface engaging all wheels to hold them immobile and with the second sheet surface exposed outwardly as a supportive walking surface.
A flexible sole removably mountable to a roller skate for covering the wheels and holding them immobile, thereby allowing relatively normal walking by one wearing the roller skate, the roller skate having front and rear wheel trucks rotatably mounting front and rear pairs of transversely spaced wheels for rotation about longitudinally spaced axes at opposed ends of the roller skate and with a stop pad projecting from one end of said skate, wherein said sole is comprised of:
- an elongated sheet having a length dimension between its ends that is greater than the distance between the wheel axes of the roller skate and a width dimension greater than the transverse spacing between the wheels of each pair;
- first and second opposed outer surfaces extending between the ends of said sheet;
- first mounting means on the sheet for releasably attaching one end of the sheet to one of the skate trucks spaced farthest from the stop pad;
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- second mounting means on the sheet for releasably attaching the remaining end of the sheet to the stop pad, with the first surface of the sheet tautly engaging the wheels of both pairs and the second surface exposed outwardly as a supportive walking surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.