Wheel glide
OwnerHelen L. Ostinginventor
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Abstract
A wheel glide removably mountable to a wheel. A pair of rigid runners are hinged together to allow the positioning of a wheel atop one of the runners with the remaining runner extending upwardly partially around the wheel. A plurality of clamps fixedly mounted to the runners removably and grippingly engage the wheel. In a second embodiment, a longitudinally flexible but laterally rigid strip of material extends peripherally around the wheel and is removably secured thereto by a plurality of clamps. A tie engages two of the clamps to secure the opposite ends of the strip together.
Claims1
A snow ski removably attachable to a shopping cart wheel comprising:
- a longitudinally flexible but laterally rigid strip of material with opposite ends and extendable peripherally around a wheel being initially provided in roll form and cut to length to fit said shopping cart wheel, said strip having a width of at least one and one-half times the width of said wheel to support same atop snow;
- clamp means fixedly mounted on said strip and engageable with said wheel being operable to removably hold said strip peripherally on said wheel, said clamp means including a plurality of clamps fixedly attached to and atop said strip, each of said clamps has a pair of upwardly extending spaced apart arms with integrally connected proximal ends forming a portion coplanar with said strip and spring biased distal ends grippingly positioned around said wheel to hold said strip to said wheel with said strip rotating with said wheel;
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- strip fastening means engaged with said clamp means and operable to hold said ends together while said strip is on said wheel, said strip fastening means including a pair of fastener strips with adjacent ends and opposite slotted end portions, said adjacent ends including a projection and complementary receiving aperture thereon releasably connecting said adjacent ends together, said strip fastening means further including a string configured element extending across said opposite ends of said strip to and around at least two of said clamps located closest to and on opposite sides of said opposite ends of said strip, said string having opposite free ends extendable through said slotted end portions forcing said two clamps closer together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.