A skate blade sharpening device having a housing that includes a top wall, side walls and a bottom wall that form a hollow chamber. The top wall has a lid separated by a front face and a back face. The front face extends from a first edge to the lid and the back face extends from a back edge to the lid. A groove extends from the front edge to the back edge along the bottom wall. Disposed within the hollow chamber of the housing is a motor, at least one battery, a grinding wheel, at least one magnet, a dust catching compartment, and a micro-computer.

The present disclosure is directed to systems, compositions, and methods for manufacturing objects with sharp edges having a high strength and hardness. To form the sharp edge, an object can be subjected to a compressive force that locally deforms the object to create the sharp edge. In some embodiments, deformation can occur by passing the material through a system of one or more opposed tapered rolls having one or more tapering angles for deforming the material. The tapered rolls can rotate and drive the material downstream to a next opposed pair of tapered rolls. The tapered rolls deform the material by changing the material microstructure, compressing the grains of the material in a predetermined location to create a more homogeneous microstructure. The local modification of the resulting microstructure increases the homogeneity as well as the hardness and strength of the material and prevents cracking and/or chipping of the material.

A skate blade sharpening system used to sharpen the blades of ice skates. The skate sharpener can include a housing that includes an elongated slot for receiving the blade of an ice skate for sharpening, and clamp jaws for retaining the skate. The housing can include at least one slot cover to engage the skate blade. Engagement of the skate blade can be sensed by a controller to enable sharpening operations to proceed. The skate blade sharpening system can automatically operate a grinding wheel and move the rotating grinding wheel back and forth along the lower face of the skate blade a desired number of times to sharpen the skate blade.

According to this application there is provided a portable sharpening device. More specifically, a portable sharpening device comprising a body portion comprising a surfacing member, a mouth in communication with the surfacing member, arranged to guide an object to be sharpened towards the surfacing member; wherein the device is arranged to sharpen a face of said object by relative movement between the surfacing member and the object to be sharpened and wherein said relative movement is created manually by a user.

The present disclosure provides for a skate sharpening system comprising an operative unit and a base, the operative unit comprising a central body, the central body comprising a skate receiving slot, a skate clamp being positioned adjacent to the skate receiving slot such that a skate can be secured within the skate receiving slot for a sharpening operation, the operative unit further comprising a grinding unit, the grinding unit being configured to translate along a length of the slot such that the grinding unit can conduct the sharpening operation on the skate that is secured within the skate receiving slot, the operative unit being positioned over at least a portion of the base, the base comprising a swarf-receiving cavity, the operative unit and the base being pivotably connected.

The invention includes an automated device and method for applying wax to snow sporting equipment. This includes skis and snowboards and provides kiosks where skiers and boarders can deposit their equipment in a track and have appropriate wax for current snow conditions applied to the equipment.

A skate sharpening system comprises an adjustor assembly and a skate holder assembly. A runner is releasably coupled to a template runner, and then clamped into the skate holder assembly. The template runner defines a pre-defined profile for the blank runner. An operator moves the skate holder assembly such that the template runner moves along a guide bearing of the adjustor assembly. The guide bearing is disposed proximate a grinding wheel. While the template runner remains in contact with the adjustable guide bearing, the runner remains in contact with, and moves along, the grinding wheel such that the grinding wheel simultaneously sharpens and contours the runner.

The invention relates to apparatus for polishing a running base that comprises a blade with two opposing blade edges separated one from the other by an intermediate section; the polishing apparatus comprising: a support body, and blade alignment guide means; wherein the support body is capable of carrying a polishing surface which comprises: a profile which is adapted to conform with one or more portions of the intermediate section; and wherein the blade alignment guide means comprise one or more pairs of first and second blade alignment guides, which first and second blade alignment guides in each pair are separated from each other by the polishing surface, and further wherein the blade alignment guide means is adapted to receive and/or guide and/or constrain a running base so that when the intermediate section between the two edges of the running base is brought into contact with the polishing surface, there is no contact between the polishing surface and any part of the two opposing blade edges of the running base.

A ski or snowboard edge sharpener may include an abrasive grinding wheel, a belt-driven drive train or direct drive system that connects a motor and grinding wheel drive mechanism and decreases the grinding wheel's speed of rotation relative to the speed of the motor, a grinding wheel mount allowing selection and use grinding wheels of different grits and materials and grinding wheel controls allowing the control of the cut depth and the grinding wheel angles relative to the longitudinal and transverse planes of the ski edge surface to be sharpened. In some embodiments, the sharpener may alternatively include a grinding wheel and motor that drives the grinding wheel drive mechanism. Such configurations may allow repeated sharpening of a ski edge at specific/chosen angles with a specific/chosen surface finish. A position lockdown device that is part of each of the control mechanisms may be included.

In at least one embodiment, the present invention discloses a manual blade sharpening tool having a longitudinally extending at least partial channel defined by a longitudinally extending first channel wall, a cutter pocket and a distal planar guide surface located in the longitudinally extending first channel wall, and a longitudinally extending cutter having a longitudinally extending first cutter wall, a longitudinally extending second cutter wall and a transverse cutter surface, the transverse cutter received in the cutter pocket such that one of the longitudinally extending first cutter wall and the longitudinally extending second cutter wall abuts the cutter pocket.