In-line roller skate

• US 5,979,916 A
• Filed: 07/03/1997
• Issued: 11/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Skis Rossignol SA (Chartreuse et Mont Blanc SAS)
• Original Assignee: Skis Rossignol SA (Chartreuse et Mont Blanc SAS)
• Inventors: Gignoux, Pierre, Gatel, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Oberleitner, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yeagley, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US08/887,712
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: 280/11.2, 280/11.27, 280/11.28, 280/11.23, 301/5.3, 301/5.7
• US Class Current: 280/11.224
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 17/0046 with shock absorption or suspension system
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 17/065 with movements during use of the foot plate or shoe relative to the chassis, e.g. inline clap skate

Abstract

A skate is provided, consisting of an upper chassis (3) which supports a boot (4) and which is articulated onto a lower chassis (1) provided with rollers (2), about a pin (5) located in the front half of the lower chassis. The upper chassis (3) is elastically supported. The inclination of the upper chassis (3) can be modified using an adjustment device with prepositioning, comprising a wedging part and a prepositioning member (12) that arms a spring whose relaxation brings the wedging part into the desired position when it is released by the upper chassis. A relatively weak actuation spring is sufficient.

Claims

1. An in-line roller skate comprising an upper chassis (3) on which a boot (4) is fixed, and a lower chassis (1) which bears at least two rollers (2) and onto which the upper chassis is articulated about a pin (5) parallel to the axes of the rollers and located between and including the middle and the front end of the lower chassis, and an elastic means (6) which counteracts the downward movement of the upper chassis and is located between the two chassis, which skate includes, in front of the articulation pin of the two chassis, a device for adjusting the maximum inclination of the upper chassis having delayed action, this device consisting of a wedging member (8;

20;

     32) capable of occupying at least two different wedging positions, at least one spring (13;

28, 29;

     33) for positioning the wedging member, and a manual prepositioning means (12;

26;

     41), actuation of which causes arming of the said spring so long as the wedging member is retained by one of the chassis, so that the wedging member is brought into a prepositioned position by relaxation of the positioning spring when it is released by compression of the said elastic means (6) under the effect of the skater'"'"'s weight.

2. The skate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said wedging member consists of a stop (8) that can move on the lower chassis, wherein the positioning spring (13) bears via one end on the mobile stop, wherein a control member (12) is mounted on the lower chassis and acts on the other end of the spring (13), and wherein the lower chassis has means (16, 17) for positioning and retention, against action of the spring (13), of the control member (12) in two determined positions, namely a first position (16), in which the spring (13) is armed so as to bring the stop (8) into a wedging position for the upper chassis in a down position where it is released by the upper chassis, and to hold it in this wedging position, and a second position (17), in which the spring (13) is armed so as to move the stop (8) away from the upper chassis when it is released by the upper chassis and to hold it in this position.

3. The skate as claimed in claim 2, wherein the stop (8) consists of a plate mounted so as to tilt on the lower chassis, wherein the control member is a rotary member (12) provided with a pin (11) engaged in the stop, wherein the spring (13) is a torsion spring, one end of which is engaged in the stop and other end of which is engaged in the rotary member, and wherein the means for retention of the control member consist of notches (16, 17) formed in the lower chassis.

4. The skate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wedging member (20) is secured to a shaft (21) mounted so as to slide longitudinally in the upper chassis (3), provided with a stud (24) in its central part and surrounded by two antagonistic delayed-action positioning springs (28, 29) working in compression between the said stud and, on one side, a fixed bracket (22) secured to the upper chassis and, on the other side, a mobile stop (25) secured to a control member (26), means (27) being provided in the upper chassis in order to preposition the control member.

5. The skate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the adjusting device consists of a first annular cylindrical part (31) having a crennelated recess (36) and a radial arm (41) for angular drive and positioning, and of a second annular cylindrical part (32) in the form of a cylinder cam, fitted into the first annular part and mounted so as to rotate about an at least approximately vertical axis in the first part, this second annular part (32) having at least two levels (43, 39, 40) and a crennelated recess (44) which is similar to the recess (36) of the first part and is located in front of this recess, and wherein the delayed-action positioning spring is a torsion spring (33) whose ends bear respectively against each of the sides of the crennelated recesses (36, 44) of the two parts, so that in the event of a new preselection of the adjustment device, the second part (32) is brought by the spring (33) into the preselected position when the second part is released.