Q-WANG-2

Q-WANG-2

English Abstract

A skate attachment comprising an elongated platform containing a longitudinal
groove for receiving the blade of a skate and having at its forward(toe) end a
rearward-inclined recess conditioning the groove to receive the forward end of the
blade and the supporting frame thereof. Straps are used to retain the
backward(heel) portion of the platform mounted upon the skate down in position to
locate the skate blade in said groove. The straps and the forward end of the
platform prevent the skate blade from moving longitudinally backward and forwardrespectively in the longitudinal groove.

French Abstract

ccessoire pour patin comprenant une plate-forme allongée présentant une rainure longitudinale destinée à recevoir la lame d'un patin et ayant à son extrémité avant (embout orteil) un dégagement incliné vers l'arrière permettant à la rainure d'accepter l'extrémité avant de la lame et son support. Des courroies permettent d'assujettir en position la partie arrière (talon) de la plate-forme installée sur le patin de façon à pouvoir engager la lame du patin dans ladite rainure. Les courroies et l'extrémité avant de la plate-forme empêchent la lame du patin de se déplacer longitudinalement, de l'arrière vers l'avant, respectivement, dans la rainure longitudinale.

Claims

Claims
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is
claimed are defined as follows:
A skate attachment comprising an unitary, flat elongated platform containing a
longitudinal groove extending centrally from a point spaced a short distance from the
forward end of the platform to the backward extremity so as to open to the uppersurface of the platform and the backward end thereof and being vertically disposed,
the groove having at its forward end a rearward-inclined recess conditioning thegroove to receive the forward end of the blade and also receive supporting framethereof, said platform having its top surfaces touch against the surface of the skate
shoe bottom, straps mean for retaining the backward portion of the platform
mounted upon the skate down in position to locate the skate blade in said groove,
and mean preventing the blade of the skate from moving longitudinally backward in
the elongated groove.

Description

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Specification
This invention, named Q-Wang-2, relates to attachments for lady's figure ice skates.
Most skates are fastened to the skater's feet by shoestrings. For the ice skaters, it is
inconvenient to change from their walking shoes to their ice skates, and vice versa.
At the ice rink or ground, once the skaters having placed the ice skates on their feet,
caution has to be taken to balance their body weights, and to prevent the blades of
skates from contacting with abrasive surfaces that would dull the blades of the ice
skates. The objects of this invention are: (1) to provide an attachment for the ice
skates that will enable the skaters to walk stably with the skates on their feet; (2) to
protect the blades of the skates from conla-,ti.,g the ground or other abrasive
surface; (3) to be suitable to different skate sizes, and cheap for manufacture.
Applicant has reviewed prior invenliol1s. One patent of which he is aware is
Vassanelli, U.S. Pat. No. 576,068 that expired. That Skate Walker(attachment) has
a closed rear end which is not easy to adjust to different sizes of skate blade and
supporting frame thereof. This makes the attachrl,ent costly for manufacture.
Another invention is Cabral, U.S. Pat. No. 4,252,345. This invention does not have a
firm plafform as the one invented by Vassanelli. Therefore the invention, named
Skate Guard and Walker, seems not be able to provide a stable suppor~. In addition,
since a pin is used to control the movable part that is designed to adjust to the
different skate sizes, the invention is relativety complicated for manufacture. It also
takes longer time for the skater to placed the Skate Guard and Walker on the iceskate.
The applicant has designed another kind of skate attachment which can achieve the
three objects mentioned earlier. More importantly, the skate attachment invented,
named Q-Wang-2, not only can automatically acco~llmodate the different skate
sizes, but also is easy and cheap for manufacture. In the design of the plafform, the
forward end of the groove is closed, and the rear end of the groove is open for
automatically accommodating skates in different sizes.
In drawings which illustrate embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a top/side
perspective view of a skate attached with the skate attachment. Figure 2 shows a

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front view of the lower part of a lady's figure skate. A front section view taken along
line 3-3 in Figure 1 is shown in Figure 3. The area 2 in Figure 3 is the elongated
groove which receives the skate blade 1 in Figure 2. The area 6 is the solid body
material which can be plastic, hard rubber, hard foam, light wood etc. Figure 4 is a
front section view, taken along line 3-3 in Figure 1, showing the blade 1 placed in
the elongated groove 2. Note also that the top surfaces 7 of the attachment touch
against the skate shoe bottom 8 to provide a firm support to the skate. The sideview of a lady's figure skate and the attachment are shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6
respectively.The length of the attachment plafform is approximately the same as the
length of the skate. The width of the attachment plafform is also about the same as
the skate shoe bottom. The height of the attachment plafform is about the same as
the height of the skate blade including the supporting steel frame. The attachment is
fastened to the skate by two sets of straps. The front set of strap 10 is fixed at
positions 3 on one end. The other ends 11 can stick together for fastening the
straps. The rear strap set 5 is fixed at positions 4 on one end. Similarly to the front
set, the other ends 12 can stick each other for the fastening the straps. The rear
set of straps can prevent the blade of skate from sliding longitudinally backward in
the elongated groove 2. Note that since the rear end of the groove is open. The
design of the rear set of straps is necessary. Figure 7 is the top perspective view of
the attachment plafform. The forward end 9 is closed which can prevent the bladefrom moving forward longitudinally in the elongated groove 2. At 13, the rear end
of the attachment plafform, the rear end of the groove 2 is not closed for
accommodating the different lengthy sizes of the skate blades. The dotted area in 2
of Figure 7 denotes the bottom of the groove 2. The bottom material is about 0.5cm
in thickness.

Representative Drawing