US2229632A - Removable brake for roller skates - Google Patents

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Jan. 28, 1941. A ND r 2,229,632

REMOVEABLE BRAKE FOR ROLLER SKATES I Filed Feb. 3. 1939 Fig.1

INVENTORS Arlh uI' Benderand ChesferRakow WMA/W ATTORNEY.

Patented Jan. 28, 1941 PATENT OFFICE 2,229,632 asmovanu: BRAKE son nouns snares Arthur Bender and Chester Rakow, Arvern'e, Long Island, N. Y-

Application February 3,1939, set-inmates 4 Claims.

This invention rel-ates to skates, and more especially to a removable brake for same, and particularly for roller skates, although with slight modification it is also adapted for use with ice skates, particularly for doing fancy skating, as where a stop device is desirable to be applied to hockey skates.

An object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive device which can be readily applied, re-

paired, and reapplied to an ordinary pair of roller skates, particularly of the kind shown as rink skates, and which are permanently attached to the shoe, as by screws or rivets.

Another object is to provide such a device which may employ an ordinary form of rubber heel as the replaceable braking element, so that when, due to continued use, the brake surface of the device has become worn, the device may be readily detached from the skate and shoe without the necessity of using tools, and a new braking surface then applied to the device to replace the worn brake member, and thereafter the device may be as readily reapplied to the skate without appreciable loss of time.

A further object is to provide such a device which can be inexpensively stamped from sheet material and assembled with comparatively few parts and which is adapted for use on a large number of different sized and shaped shoes and skates without any variation in either the form or size of the device, thus eliminating the need of the supplier carrying a large number of sizes to fit all sizes and types of skate and shoe.

All these and other objects as suggmted herebeiow are attained by the method and means now to be described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side vertical elevational view of a roller skate attached to a shoe and with applicants invention applied thereto for use in braking or reducing the speed of the skater, by the operation of tilting up on the toe of one or both skates.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view showing applicants device removed from the skate and shoe and being somewhat enlarged over the view shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view from above of the device of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view from below of the same device.

And Fig. 5 is a vertical end elevational view, taken from the rear of the device shown in the previous figures.

Like numerals refer tollike parts throughout the several views.

There is illustrated in Fig. 1 a conventional type of rink roller skate, comprising a pair of front. and rear wheels H, H, rotatably supported on 5 shaft-holding pedestals l3, l3 afllxed to theupper plate 22 of the skate, and containing a longitudinally-positioned bracing member I 2 immediately below and substantially parallel to said member 22, as clearly shown in Figure 1. Above the skate L10; and screwed or riveted thereto in conventional manner is a shoe l0 having a sole 10a and a heel lflb, the bottom of which is integrally fastened on the upper surface of skate member 22.

Applicant's device comprises essentially a re- [181 placeable braking element M which is preferably formed from an ordinary rubber heel, and this is. so mounted on the skateshoe combination as to be readily removable therefrom when the rubber heel portion has become worn and needs to be renewed. This brake member I, shaped in front and side outline substantially like that of the toe portion of the sole of the shoe and its adjacent skate portion, is removably attached, as by a plurality of rivets 2!, to a rigid metal plate II, which ioilows the contour of the braking member [4 but extends somewhat rearwardly thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. A pair of opposite side lugs l8, l6, integral with plate member ll, extend upwardly therefrom in manner as shown in Fig. 3 in the drawing to engage the side and top edges of the sole Illa of shoe l0. Likewise, a similar lug i5 is formed from the front or member II to engage the sole lfla at that portion and so prevent the brake from sliding rearwardly when put into use.

Attached to one side of plate member II, as by a pivoting rivet 20, is an L-shaped connector or holding member l9, preferably made of spring steel, and adapted to pivot about member 20 and at the same time to be sprung or bent upwardly to a slight extent. The end of member l9 extends somewhat across the longitudinal center line of the device and terminates in a downwardly hooked portion 23 adapted to overlie the edge of the skate member I! when in position on the skate.

A similar connection 18 also pivoted by a similar pivoting rivet 20 and positioned on the other side of member If, as clearly disclosed, is likewise L-shaped but somewhat shorter in its shank or connecting portion, and its end likewise extends somewhat beyond the center line of the device and also terminates in a central downwardlyproiecting hooked portion 23. Thus the two 55 hooked portions of these connectors are adjacent to one another. one more rearwardly than the other and on the opposite side of the longitudinal member I! of the skate when in operating Dolltion. They are pressed upwardly and swung outwardly to the two sides of theskate to release the whole device from the skate and shoe. And when replacing the device it is only necessary to press it onto the shoe sole from the front and slightly bend up the ends of members II, II so the hook portion will swing above member l-l of the skate and come to rest beyond the other edge thereof, after which a slight return movement and releasing of each member will hook it around at opposite sides of skate member i2.

Suitable provision may be made if necessary to prevent any movement of the device toward the front of the skate but this is usually not necessary since by the very act of braking. the device is pressed strongly to the rear of the skate and is so retained in position by the clips around the soles of the shoe and the spring connectors on each side of skate member l2.

Thus it will be seen that a very simple and inexpensive device has been assembled which is cheap to make, strong and rugged in construction, and reliable in use. The braking member I may be of any suitable material such as sole leather but it. has been found that a rubber heel serves the purpose very well. Likewise, variations and adaptations of the features of this device may be made without departing from the scope of the claims. For instance, if the device is to be asaaesa adapted for use on ice ska the braking member. instead of being made of rubber or leather might be of metal construction with sharp teeth such as exists on the front portion of fancy skates.

Having now described the invention, what is claimed as new and for which Letters Patent of the United States n desired, is:

1. As a new article of manufacture. a removable braking member for a skate including a downwardly-facing frictional-surface member and means for removably fastening it in position below the toe portion of the skate, said removable fastening means including pivoted L-shaped connectors with hooked ends adapted to engage opposite sides of a longitudinally-disposed skate member beneath its shoe-engaging Plate.

2. A removable brake for a roller skate and shoe. comprising a toe plate having upwardlyprojecting shoe-engaging lugs and a downwardlyprojecting braking member of rubber or leather, and removable means for fastening said plate to the skate.

3. The invention as in claim 2, said removable fastening means including resilient hooking members adapted to both swing and spring to locking position on opposite edges of a fixed skate portion.

4. The invention as in claim 2, said lugs being adapted to engage around the front and both side portions of the sole of the shoe.

ARTHUR BENDER. CHES'I'ER RAKOW.

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