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US 4,364,187 AGranted
Skate sandals
OwnerRicardo Melendezinventor
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Abstract
A device to be detachably connected to a roller skate having wheels to facilitate walking including a bottom portion held onto the skate with spring clips. An enclosing wall extends up from the bottom portion to shield the clips and wheels from view.
Claims10
A device to be detachably connected to a roller skate having wheels to facilitate walking with the skate, said device comprising:
- a bottom structure for contacting a floor surface as a person walks therealong with said device attached to a skate;
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- resilient spring clip means carried by said bottom structure at the upper side thereof to which a skate is connectible by movement of the skate downwardly relative to said device, and from which the skate is detachable by movement upwardly relative to said device;
- said clip means containing and forming at least one upwardly facing and upwardly opening recess into which at least one wheel of the skate is movable downwardly upon said downward attaching movement of a skate relative to said device, with said clip means having a resiliently deflectable portion near the upper end of said recess positioned to be displaced generally horizontally by a skate wheel upon downward movement thereof and after passage of the wheel to resiliently return inwardly to a position yieldingly retaining the wheel in said recess.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.