IN-LINE ROLLER SKATE AND BOOT ASSEMBLY WITH DETACHABLE WHEEL APPARATUS

PATIN A ROUES ALIGNEES DONT LA CHAUSSURE PEUT ETRE SEPAREE DE L'ENSEMBLE ROUES

English Abstract

An in-line roller skate and boot assembly with which the wheel
apparatus can be quickly removed in situations where walking
would be more suitable than skating. The boot is manufactured to
provide for excellent ankle support and good traction on road
surfaces when the wheel apparatus is not attached. The rigid
sole of the boot is specially moulded to accept the wheel
assembly with little lateral movement or shifting. The wheels
can be quickly attached by hooking the wheel assembly onto the
front of the boot and engaging a lever to secure it at the rear.
Removing the in-line wheel assembly involves pulling down the
lever and then unhooking the wheel assembly at the toe.

Claims

CLAIMS
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property
or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. An in-line rollerskate and boot assembly, with removable wheel
apparatus, the boot having a rigid sole, specially moulded to
accommodate the detachable wheel assembly and hold it in position
laterally,
2. the boot portion of the in-line rollerskate and boot assembly
having notches in the toe portion of the sole to receive the
front hook element of the detachable wheel apparatus,
3. the heel portion of the in-line rollerskate and boot assembly
being extended to provide a point of anchor for the lever
mechanism, employed to fasten the rear portion of the wheel
apparatus to the bottom of the boot and hold the wheel assembly
in place.
4. the wheel apparatus of the in-line rollerskate and boot
assembly having a loop element at the front which hooks onto the
aforementioned notches in the toe portion of the boot sole (claim
2) to hold the wheel apparatus at the front.
5. and the wheel apparatus of the in-line rollerskate and boot
assembly having a lever element, affixed at the mid-portion the
wheel apparatus by flexible cable, which mounts onto the extended
heel portion of the boot (claim 3), and is used to lever the
wheel apparatus against the bottom of the boot and hold it firmly
in place.

Description

~PECI FI CATI ON
This invention relates to in-line rollerskating as a viable
method of transportation.
In-llne skating becomes exceedlngly dangerous where skatlng
surfaces are inconsistent, crowds of people are unavoidable, or
lndoors where there are slick, eollshed surfaces and stalrways
not conduclve to skatlng. For these reasons, many would-be users
of ln-llne skates dlsregard them as a vlable means of
transportatlon because it is awkward to remove the skate3 before
undertaking such obstacles.
A simple hook-and-lever mechanism affords the ln-line skater the
option to qulckly and easily remove the wheel assembly from the
boot to traverse any obstacles safely on oot.
The ln-line wheel assembly has three prlnclple elements: toe-
hook~l), heel-lever(2) and boot-contact-plate(3). The ln-llne
wheel assembly attaches at the front of the boot ln such a way
that the toe-hook mounts onto a set of two identical notches ln
the rlgid sole(4), aperoxlmately 1.5cm deep and 3cm apart. Once
the toe hook is in the notches, the wheel assembly must be
aligned along the length of the boot sole and secured at the heel
by way of a lever, affixed to the wheel assembly by two flexible
cables(S) and two threaded-sleeve assemblies(6) used to
marginally increase or decrease cable-length for propér leverage.
The speclally moulded boot sole(7) wLll guide the boot-contact-
plate lnto positlon along the centre of the sole and secure it
laterally. The heel-lever is aligned on the top side of the
rigld heel(8), which extends approxlmately l.Scm from the back of
the boot, and then must be pulled vertlcally lnto position until
leverage pressure forces it to pop securely into place against
the back of the boot(9), affixlng the wheel assembly flrmly to
the bottom.
The wheel assembly can be easily removed and then reattached in
sltuations where the user feels walking would be more approprlate
than skat i ng .

Representative Drawing