All-terrain roller skate
OwnerJean-Claude Arbogastinventor
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Abstract
In-line roller skate (1) comprising in-line wheels (2) around which travels an endless rolling support (4) of the belt type, having regular transverse notches (40). At least the rear wheel (24) is mounted in such a way as to allow horizontal sliding, and at least the front wheel (9) is mounted in such a way as to allow inclined forward sliding along an elongate slot opening (12) formed in the side walls (13, 14) of the frame (6), so that the tension in the rolling belt keeps the axis of rotation (5) of the wheel at the bottom end of the slot. At least one element (27) is in rolling bearing contact with the lower portion of the rolling belt. This belt is preferably cylindrical in section, with its inner surface (28) housed in mating grooves (3) around the perimeter of the wheels. The skate may include a stone guard (45).
Claims30
An all-terrain roller skate, comprising:
- a shoe member to be worn upon a person's foot;
- a frame member attached to said shoe member and having a longitudinal extent;
- a plurality of axles mounted upon said frame member and disposed transversely with respect to said longitudinal extent of said frame member;
- a plurality of wheels respectively mounted in a rotatable manner upon said plurality of axles, wherein said plurality of wheels are disposed in a linearly serial manner along said longitudinal extent of said frame member;
- an endless rolling support disposed within an endless loop about said plurality of wheels such that inner peripheral surface portions of said endless rolling support are disposed in contact with outer peripheral surface portions of said plurality of wheels while an outer peripheral surface portion of said endless rolling support is disposed in contact with a support surface upon which the person is to roller skate;
- wherein the axle, of said plurality of axles, supporting the forwardmost wheel of said plurality of wheels disposed in said linearly serial manner along said longitudinal extent of said frame member, has opposite ends thereof disposed within a pair of substantially vertically oriented, forwardly inclined slots so as to be movable in upward and downward directions in order to effectively accommodate, in a substantially cushioned manner, irregularities in the support surface upon which the person is roller skating thereby rendering the roller skating operation more comfortable to the person roller skating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.