Land vehicles – Skates – Runner type
Patent
1997-10-24
2000-07-04
Mar, Michael
Land vehicles
Skates
Runner type
36115, 280 1115, 280 1127, 280 113, A63C 100
Patent
active
060827440
ABSTRACT:
A skate (20) hingedly attached to an elongate ice blade (24) by a frame (22). The skate having an upper shoe portion (26) adapted to receive a foot, and a sole defining a heel end, a metatarsal portion having a metatarsal head area, and a toe end. The skate further includes a midskate hinge member (12) defined the metatarsal head portion to permit the upper shoe portion to flex in the metatarsal portion, allowing the heel end to lift away from the ice blade, while the toe end remains substantially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the ice blade. The skate also includes a binding plate (23) fastened to the sole of the skate and extends from the toe end to at least behind the metatarsal head area of the sole. A mid-boot support mount (70) extends upwardly from the frame and is adapted to support the plate at a predetermined location behind the metatarsal head area of the sole to maintain the plate in a stable position as the skater pushes down on the plate and applies thrust to the ice blade. The skate also includes a forward hinge member (10) hingedly attaching the first end (54) of the plate to the ice blade, such that as the upper shoe portion hinges at the forward hinge member and about a lateral axis defined normal to the longitudinal direction of the ice blade, the mid-boot hinge member unflexes and the skater is able to push-off from the forward hinge member without the tip end of the ice blade digging into the surface it is traversing.
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Allinger Todd
Meibock Antonin A.
Svensson John E.
K-2 Corporation
Mar Michael
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