Scooter

• US 4,133,548 A
• Filed: 10/14/1977
• Issued: 01/09/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rad Enterprises, LLC
• Original Assignee: Gerald E. Smith
• Inventors: Smith, Gerald E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pekar, John A.
• Application Number:
  US05/842,117
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• Field of Search: 280/87.04 A, 280/87.04 R, 280/87.05, 280/11.1 R, 280/11.1 BT, D34/15 AT, D34/15 AJ
• US Class Current: 280/87.041
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 3/002 without a seat, i.e. the rider operating the vehicle in a standing position, e.g. non-motorized scooters; non-motorized scooters with skis or runners

Abstract

A scooter for performing riding tricks thereon, consisting of a generally concave riding platform having an interior platform surface. The scooter has a holding means attached to at least one end of the platform for a person, who is supported by the platform and riding the scooter, to hold onto. The scooter additionally consists of a plurality of roller means attached to the exterior surface of the riding platform. The roller means are positioned in such a manner so as to enable the scooter to ride on a riding surface, e.g. the ground, in a plurality of riding positions along the exterior surface. When the person riding the scooter shifts the weight of his body, the scooter shifts from one riding position to another while rolling on the riding surface.

Claims

1. A scooter comprising:

(a) a riding platform comprising a plurality of planar surfaces connected with each other'"'"'s ends at angles and forming interior and exterior platform surfaces;

(b) a holding means attached to at least one end of the platform for a person, who is supported by the platform and riding the scooter, to hold onto; and

(c) a plurality of roller means attached to the exterior near the ends of the planar surfaces for enabling the scooter to roll on a riding surface in a plurality of riding positions along the exterior surface,

whereby when the person riding the scooter shifts the weight of his body, the scooter shifts from one riding position to another while rolling on the riding surface.

2. The scooter of claim 1, wherein the riding platform consists of at least three elongated platform beams joined together end to end.

3. The scooter of claim 2, wherein the center beam is attached to each of the two end beams at an angle of from about 15°

to about 75°

from the exterior surface of the center beam.

4. The scooter of claim 3, wherein one of the end beams is attached to the center beam at an angle of about 40°

and the other beam at an angle of about 60°

.

5. The scooter of claim 2, wherein the platform beams are of a width of at least the width of the foot of a person.