Locking device, particularly for skate wheels
AssigneeBenetton Sportsystem S.p.A.
InventorsRoberto Gorza, Alan Balzarotti
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Abstract
A locking device for skates constituted by a U-shaped frame for supporting a shoe, and including a first wing and a second wing between which two or more wheels are pivoted and arranged mutually in-line. An eccentric lever, arranged outside the first wing, is connected to a pusher which is slidingly associated with the first wing and with a pivot. The pivot is rigidly coupled to the second wing and is arranged in the interspace formed between two of the wheels which are mutually adjacent, the wheels interacting, during compression, with at least one elastically compressible element which is coaxial to the pusher.
Claims16
A locking device, particularly for skates constituted by a U-shaped frame comprising a first wing and a second wing having at least two wheels pivoted thereto, comprising at least one traction-operated actuation element which lies outside said first wing and is connected to a pusher which is slidingly associated with said first wing and with a pivot, said pivot being rigidly coupled to said second wing and being arranged in the interspace formed between said at least two wheels which are mutually adjacent, said wheels interacting, during compression, with at least one elastically compressible element which is coaxial to said pusher, said traction-operated actuation element being an eccentric lever associated, by means of a pin, with said pivot which is externally threaded and interacts with a complementarily threaded seat formed axially to a shank of said pusher, said pusher being substantially T-shaped and having a head arranged adjacent to the inner lateral surface of said second wing, the shank being slidingly associated at a suitable first seat formed on said first wing of said frame.
A locking device, particularly for skates constituted by a U-shaped frame comprising a first wing and a second wing having at least two wheels pivoted thereto, comprising at least one traction-operated actuation element which lies outside said first wing and is connected to a pusher which is slidingly associated with said first wing and with a pivot, said pivot being rigidly coupled to said second wing and being arranged in the interspace formed between said at least two wheels which are mutually adjacent, said wheels interacting, during compression, with at least one elastically compressible element which is coaxial to said pusher, said at least one elastically compressible element being arranged coaxially to a shank of said pusher and being interposed between the surface of said head that does not interact with the inner surface of said second wing and the inner lateral surface of said first wing said elastically compressible element being substantially H-shaped in a longitudinal cross-section.
A locking device, particularly for skates constituted by a U-shaped frame comprising a first wing and a second wing having at least two wheels pivoted thereto, comprising at least one traction-operated actuation element which lies outside said first wing and is connected to a pusher which is slidingly associated with said first wing and with a pivot, said pivot being rigidly coupled to said second wing and being arranged in the interspace formed between said at least two wheels which are mutually adjacent, said wheels interacting, during compression, with at least one elastically compressible element which is coaxial to said pusher, said at least one elastically compressible element being constituted by two blocks which are arranged coaxially to a shank of said pusher and having substantially the shape of a truncated cone, said pair of blocks having a base which interacts respectively with said inner lateral surface of said first wing of said frame and with the surface of said head of said pusher which is opposite to the one that faces said second wing of said frame.
A locking device, particularly for skates constituted by a U-shaped frame comprising a first wing and a second wing having at least two wheels pivoted thereto, comprising at least one traction-operated actuation element which lies outside said first wing and is connected to a pusher which is slidingly associated with said first wing and with a pivot, said pivot being rigidly coupled to said second wing and being arranged in the interspace formed between said at least two wheels which are mutually adjacent, said wheels interacting, during compression, with at least one elastically compressible element which is coaxial to said pusher, said at least one elastically compressible element having a lateral surface which is shaped approximately complementarily to the adjacent surfaces of two of said wheels which are mutually adjacent.
A locking device, particularly for skates constituted by a U-shaped frame comprising a first wing and a second wing having at least two wheels pivoted thereto, comprising at least one traction-operated actuation element which lies outside said first wing and is connected to a pusher which is slidingly associated with said first wing and with a pivot, said pivot being rigidly coupled to said second wing and being arranged in the interspace formed between said at least two wheels which are mutually adjacent, said wheels interacting, during compression, with at least one elastically compressible element which is coaxial to said pusher, said at least one elastically compressible element having a lateral surface which is substantially V-shaped in a longitudinal cross-section, so as to follow, along a broken line, the shape of said adjacent wheels and act mainly at the surfaces thereof which are adjacent to the rolling surface.
A wheel locking device in a skate having a U-shaped frame comprising a first wing and a second wing and at least two wheels pivoted between said first and second wings at respective pivot axes, said locking device comprising:
- a pivot element extending between said wings in a plane which lies between said pivot axes of said two wheels;
- an elastically deformable brake element connected to said pivot element and arranged between outer peripheral surfaces of said two wheels, said brake element being arrangeable in a non-braking configuration in which said brake element is non-deformed elastically and arranged out of contact with said outer peripheral surfaces of said two wheels, and said brake element being arrangeable in a braking configuration in which said brake element is deformed elastically and arranged in contact with said outer peripheral surfaces of said two wheels;
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- a traction-operated actuation element arranged outside one of said wings and connected to said pivot element and operable to selectively position said brake element in said non-braking configuration and said braking configuration.
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