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US 7,104,558 B1Granted
Skate truck assembly
OwnerFred Saldanainventor
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Abstract
A skate truck assembly apparatus provides a hanger engaging separate left and right collinearly aligned axles, and at least three pairs of suspension bushings, with one selected pair of said bushings appropriate to a chosen dynamic load, secured by a kingpin; a base receiving the kingpin in adjustable engagement, thereby mounting the hanger and the at least one suspension bushing in flexible securement on the base; a pivot rod engaged with the hanger and extending therefrom into a rod recess within the base positionally distant from the kingpin.
Claims9
A skate truck assembly apparatus comprising:
- a tubular hanger with a laterally directed flange;
- a pair of axles collinearly engaged with the hanger and extending in mutually opposing directions from the hanger;
- a kingpin providing a shaft, the shaft extending through a pair of compressible suspension bushings, the flange engaged between the bushings and enclosing the shaft;
- the kingpin providing a terminal fastener portion extending axially from a shoulder of the kingpin;
- the fastener portion removably engaged with a base, the shoulder abutting the base thereby holding the kingpin immovably thereon;
- a pivot rod extending rigidly from the hanger and terminating in a rod recess within the base.
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