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Device and method for trimming the ice in a curling rink

  • US 8,745,902 B2
  • Filed: 05/23/2012
  • Issued: 06/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
First Claim
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1. A mounting arrangement for a device for trimming the high points off of ice on an ice rink, comprising:

  • an elongated blade having a left end and a right end and defining a blade length extending from said left end to said right end;

    said elongated blade also having a flat top surface, a flat bottom surface, and a beveled forward edge and defining a first set of vertically-oriented, threaded openings extending through said top surface and located at spaced-apart positions along a first bolt centerline extending in the left-to-right direction;

    a mounting block having a flat bottom surface and defining a block length and a second set of vertically-oriented openings which lie along a second bolt centerline and are aligned with the first set of threaded openings in the blade;

    a plurality of bolts, each of said bolts extending through one of the openings in said second set of openings and threading into a respective one of the openings in said first set of threaded openings to secure said blade to said block;

    a plurality of vertically-oriented first set-screw openings through said block, said first set-screw openings being threaded and being spaced-apart from each other and lying along a first set-screw centerline parallel to the first bolt centerline; and

    a plurality of first set screws received in said first set-screw openings, wherein, when the first set screws are threaded downwardly beyond the bottom surface of the mounting block, the first set screws press against the top surface of the blade.

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