Land vehicles – Skates – Shoe attaching means
Patent
1975-04-14
1977-05-03
Pinkham, Richard C.
Land vehicles
Skates
Shoe attaching means
280 1138, 272144, 272146, 206216, 206315R, A63C 300
Patent
active
040210545
ABSTRACT:
An ice skater's aid is provided, to facilitate a skater's putting on or taking off his ice skates. The aid takes a form, in a preferred embodiment, of a generally rectangular block-like article approximately coextensive in length with the boot or shoe of the ice skate, and has a continuous, longitudinal groove adapted to receive the blade of the skate. The groove or slot opens upwardly, running longitudinally and centrally of the article and being bounded on both sides by a protective pad having a corrugated or otherwise irregular surface. When the boot of an ice skate is supported upon the padded surface of the article, the skate blade, which may be sheathed by a conventional blade guard, is received in the groove or slot out of contact with adjacent surfaces. The device elevates the boot in respect to a floor upon which the aid is supported and offers a convenient means facilitating lacing or unlacing of the boot by users, particularly older or portly persons.
Also disclosed is a platform in which is centrally disposed a turntable grooved correspondingly to the lacing aid, designed to facilitate off-rink practice in the execution of spins.
There is further disclosed a carrying case for ice skates and for related accessories, taking the form of a rectangular box having a handle and a hinged lid, the interior of which has side-by-side supports grooved or slotted correspondingly to the above mentioned aid, to support in protective fashion a pair of ice skates. The lid may be compartmented to receive various accessories such as a first-aid kit, spare laces, food items, matches, etc. At one end, the carrying case is exteriorly formed with a wall that is slotted or grooved correspondingly to the lacing aid, in such fashion as to convert the carrying case itself to a lacing aid, by turning it on end with the slotted portion extended upwardly. With the carrying case, there is disclosed a pair of blocks detachably connected thereto, and adapted to be disposed upon a floor to support the skater on one foot after one skate has been put on and while the other skate boot is being laced.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1210224 (1916-12-01), Silk
patent: 1310137 (1919-07-01), Sadowsky
Brown T.
Pinkham Richard C.
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