Lockable rack for skateboards, scooters and inline skates

• US 6,481,581 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2001
• Issued: 11/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomas Sipe
• Original Assignee: Thomas Sipe
• Inventors: Sipe, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US09/804,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20020030025A1
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 211/85.7, 211/87.01, 211/4, 211/8, 211/60.1, 70/58, 248/551, 248/552, D 6/552
• US Class Current: 211/4
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 81/00 Cabinets or racks specially adapted for other particular purposes, e.g. for storing guns or skis
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 11/007 Lockable ski racks, cupboards or the like
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 71/00 Locks specially adapted for bicycles, other than padlocks locks integral with holders for parking or storing bicycles B62H3/00; locks integral with cycles B62H5/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/00 Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices motorcycle helmets A42B3/0413; supporting arrangements specially adapted for fastening helmets B62J11/24; gun racks A47B81/005; showcases with theft protection A47F3/002; anti-theft means for peg-boards, grids or rods for hanging merchandise A47F5/0861; show stands, hangers, shelves with provision against unauthorised removal A47F7/024; for self-service hand-carts A47F10/04; locking skis A63C11/004; locking bolts, nuts or pins F16B41/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles

Abstract

A wall mountable rack for supporting and securing a skateboard, scooter or inline skate having one or a pair of wheels in proximity to each end of a board, footpiece or shoe by at least one of its wheels while allowing the board, footpiece or shoe and the remaining wheels or pair of wheels to hang below the rack.

Claims

1. A wall mountable rack for supporting and securing a skateboard, scooter or inline skate having one or a pair of wheels in proximity to each end of a board, footpiece or shoe by at least one of its wheels while allowing the board, footpiece or shoe and the remaining wheels or pair of wheels to hang below the rack, comprising a rear plate, a front plate and a floor plate running between said front and rear plates, an opening in said front plate to permit said board, footpiece or shoe to be held outside said front plate while one of said wheels or pair of wheels is received and carried on said floor plate between said front and rear plates, a overlying closure plate running between said front and rear walls which is adapted to be opened to position wheel or pair of wheels between said front and rear plates and then locked in place over the top of said wheel or pair of wheels to prevent the removal of said wheel or pair of wheels from that position thereby securing the skateboard, scooter or inline skate.

2. The lockable rack of claim 1 further including the interconnection of said lockable rack to form multiple racks in one device.

3. The lockable rack of claim 1 wherein said floor plate includes a U-shaped cutout to hold a scooter.

4. The lockable rack of claim 1 wherein said rack is composed of steel.

5. A wall mountable rack for supporting and securing a skateboard by one pair of its wheels while allowing the board and the remaining pair of wheels to hang below the rack, comprising a rear plate, a front plate and a floor running between said front and rear plates, an opening in said front plate to permit said board to be held outside said front plate while said one pair of wheels is received and carried on said floor plate between said front and rear plates, a overlying closure plate running between said front and rear walls which is adapted to be opened to position said one pair of wheels between said front and rear plates and then locked in place over the top of said one pair of wheels to prevent the removal of said one pair of wheels from that position thereby securing the skateboard.