Skate brake system and methods for multiple braking effects

• US 6,273,436 B1
• Filed: 05/09/1999
• Issued: 08/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Richard M. Repucci
• Original Assignee: Richard M. Repucci
• Inventors: Repucci, Richard M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mai, Lanna
• Assistant Examiner(s): Restifo, Jeffrey J
• Application Number:
  US09/307,418
• Time in Patent Office: 828 Days
• Field of Search: 280/11.217, 280/11.216, 280/11.215, 280/11.214, 280/11.208, 280/11.206, 280/11.204, 188/5, 188/4.R
• US Class Current: 280/11.217
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 17/06 single-track type
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 17/1409 contacting one or more of the wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 17/1436 contacting the ground
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 1/14 directly on road portable devices, e.g. chocks B60T3/00

Abstract

A skate brake and methods for multiple braking effects for in-line skates, roller skates and like devices is disclosed. The skate brake comprises of a wheel rotatively mounted to an axle being occupied between runners and located within slots of a chassis with said axle being held against said slots by springs and said axle is a linkage to which is affixed a friction surface used for contacting the skating surface with a segment of said linkage bearing upon a ramp which in turn changes the direction of motion of said axle as it translates through said slots against said springs under the effect of a skater'"'"'s weight and momentum, forcing said friction surface into contact with said skating surface.

Claims

1. An in-line skate brake assembly comprising:

a plurality of wheels each having an axle,

a chassis for supporting said wheels having a pair of runners, each runner having a rear slot for retaining a rear axle of one of said wheels, said chassis also having a ramp surface and an upper friction surface for engaging said rear wheel,

a spring means for biasing said rear axle toward the bottom of said slots,

a linkage means pivotably mounted to said rear axle comprising a friction pad for engaging a skating surface, and a roller, wherein said roller is in contact with said ramp surface,

wherein upward movement of said rear axle within said slots causes said friction surface to contact said rear wheel and simultaneously causes said roller to roll along said ramp pivoting said linkage means about said rear axle allowing said friction pad to engage a skating surface.

2. The skate brake assembly of claim 1 wherein said friction surface means is located between at least two skate wheels and wherein upward movement of said of said rear axle within said slots causes said friction surface to contact said rear wheel and simultaneously causes said roller to roll forward along said ramp pivoting said linkage means about said rear axle allowing said friction pad to engage a skating surface.

3. An in-line skate brake assembly comprising:

a plurality of wheels each having an axle,

a chassis for supporting said wheels having a pair of runners, each runner having a rear slot for retaining a rear axle of one of said wheels, said chassis also having a ramp surface and an upper friction surface for engaging said rear wheel,

a first spring means for biasing said rear axle toward the bottom of said slots,

a linkage means pivotably mounted to said rear axle comprising a friction pad for engaging a skating surface, and a roller, wherein said roller is in contact with said ramp surface,

a second spring means for biasing said linkage means such that the friction pad is not in contact with a skating surface,

wherein upward movement of said rear axle within said slots causes said friction surface to contact said rear wheel and simultaneously causes said roller to roll backward along said ramp pivoting said linkage means about said rear axle allowing said friction pad to engage a skating surface.