Odometer mounted between roller skate wheels
OwnerWilliam H. Hale, Robert E. Dayinventors
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Abstract
A roller skate has an odometer supported on a bracket located in the space between the rear wheels of the rear truck, the bracket being affixed on the truck by a U shaped shackle and shackle nuts. The odometer may be electronic, with digital display in a magnifying window and actuated by a magnet on a rear wheel. It may also be mechanical, actuated by a friction wheel rotated by a skate wheel and movable into and out of contact by a set screw or lever and spring arrangement. The odometer can be read by raising the heel after skating.
Claims7
In combination with a roller skate of the type having front and rear wheel assemblies, the rear assembly comprising an inverted T shaped truck, the stem of said truck having an upper portion depending downwardly from the sole plate of the skate and having a lower portion connected to an integral laterally extending axle with a pair of roller skate wheels, each on an opposite end thereof, said stem and axle having an outer face;
- an odometer attachment for displaying the distance traveled by said skate;
- said attachment being located within the space between said roller skate wheels and including a clamp body having an inner face shaped and dimensioned to tightly fit against the corresponding outer face of said stem and axle of said rear truck and having a pair of shackle holes extending therethrough;
- a U shaped shackle, having a pair of threaded legs connected by a curved bight, said bight extending around the stem of said rear truck and said threaded legs each extending through one of said pair of shackle holes in said body;
- a pair of threaded nuts, each threaded on one of said threaded legs of said shackle for tightening said clamp body against the stem and axle of said rear truck;
- an odometer, mounted on said clamp body, to project in rear of the space between the roller skate wheels of said rear truck, said odometer having a window facing rearwardly;
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- means on one of said rear skate wheels for actuating said odometer to count the turns of said one wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.