Land vehicles – Skates – Wheeled skate
Patent
1995-05-17
1997-05-20
Johnson, Brian L.
Land vehicles
Skates
Wheeled skate
188 5, 188 17, 188 74, A63C 1714
Patent
active
056305974
ABSTRACT:
A braking system is provided for an in-line roller skate for skating on hard skate-supporting surfaces. The roller skate includes a shoe, a wheel-supporting frame attached to the shoe, and a plurality of aligned wheels operably supposed by the wheel-supporting frame. The braking system includes a hub supported on the frame and a ground engaging braking wheel rotatably supported on the hub. The hub and the ground engaging braking wheel include friction-generating surfaces such that the ground engaging braking wheel causes a braking action with the hub as the braking wheel rollingly engages with the ground supporting surface. A variety of configurations of the hub are disclosed including cuff-actuated systems and frame-fixed systems, and including a plurality of hub configurations including one-piece, multi-piece and wrapped, multi-piece and levered, and spring-biased split hub versions.
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Exhibit A is a product brochure entitled "Bravoblade" published by Rollerblade, Inc., of Minnetonka, Minnesota, copyright 1993, disclosing an in-line roller skate including a cuff-actuated brake.
Exhibit B is a product brochure entitled "Roller Stop" published by Roller Stop Inc., Malden, Maryland, publication date unknown, disclosing an in-line roller skate including a retrofittable brake system.
Exhibit C is a product brochure entitled "Grip In-Line Speed Control" published by Grip Inc., Boulder, Colorado, publication date unknown (but post marked as mailed Nov., 1993), disclosing an in-line roller skate including a cable-operated remote-actuated braking system.
Exhibit D is a product brochure entitled "1994 Oxygen Inline Skates" published by Atomic for Sport, Amherst, New Hampshire, publication date unknown, disclosing an in-line roller skate including a power braking system.
Exhibit E is an article entitled "Brake Wars in Chicago" published in the magazine Inline Retailer & Industry News, vol. 3, Issue 5, Aug. 15, 1994, on the cover page and p. 19, which discloses three brake mechanisms, at least one of which includes a roller brake and a spring-loaded disc brake. The Examiner's attention is directed to the photographs on the right of the cover page and the text of columns one and two on the cover page.
Johnson Brian L.
Mar Michael
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