GB853902A - Improvements in or relating to roller skates - Google Patents

Abstract

853,902. Roller skates. DORNSEIF, E. June 21, 1957 [June 23, 1956], No. 19695/57. Class 132(1). A four-wheel roller akate, has roller axle carriers mounted by rocking axles 14. lying in a vertical longitudinal plane at an acute angle to the side of the foot plate 10, and accommodated in apertures in a U-shaped container 12 rigid with the skate frame, a screw member 15 extending transversely of the axle and operable from the underside of the roller skate to tension the axle carrier against a cushion arrangement comprising a cushion. between the axle carrier and the skate. The limbs of the axle carrier lying parallel to the limbs of the container and embracing the rocking axle so that it is vertically slidable. As shown plate 10 carries member 12 on a carrier 11. The edge parts 17 of the former being bent to embrace a U -section elastic rubber cushion 18 which accommodates axle 14. Between the inner surfaces of limbs 13 and the outer ends of cushion 18 engage the limbs 19 of the axle carrier which has a U-shaped part 20 with a hole through which pin 15 passes and is held by nut 16 and pressure plate 21. The free ends of limbs 19 have slots 22 in which axle 14 slides allowing the axle carrier to be displaced towards member 12. Plate 21 engages by lugs 23 in apertures in carrier 20, and detachably fastens axle 24 which carries the rollers, Fig. 1. The assembly is adjusted by means of nut 16 on pin 15. In modifications, the screw member may have an eye bolt through which the rocking axle passes or the rocking axle may carry a transversely extending threaded bore to receive the thread of a screw. In a further modification, a U- shaped stirrup 32 is provided having eyes 31 receiving the ends of the axle 30 and carrying centrally a compression screw 33.