Roller skate trucks

Abstract

A boss for use with a roller skate and attached to a king pin of the roller skate and adapted to removably support an axle housing. The boss supports a pivot pin adaptor having an adjustable pin fixed into place by a lock nut. The pivot pin adaptor includes a shoulder internally abutting the boss and different angled shoulders can be attached to the boss to adjust the angle of the pin.

Claims

1. A boss for use with a roller skate and attached to a king pin of the roller skate and adapted to removably support an axle housing, wherein the boss defines two threaded apertures, and wherein the axle housing includes two co-axial holes aligned with the threaded apertures to enable screws to attach the axle housing to the boss.

2. The boss as in claim 1 including a pivot pin adaptor having an adjustable pin fixed into place by a lock nut.

3. The boss as in claim 2 wherein the pivot pin adaptor includes a shoulder internally abutting the boss.

4. A roller skate including a boss as defined in claim 1.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) Preferred features, embodiments and variations of the invention may be discerned from the following Detailed Description which provides sufficient information for those skilled in the art to perform the invention. The Detailed Description is not to be regarded as limiting the scope of the preceding Summary of the Invention in any way. The Detailed Description will refer to several drawings as follows.

(2) FIG. 1 illustrates a boss with engaging the pivot pin adaptor;

(3) FIG. 2 is the same as FIG. 1 but in a different orientation;

(4) FIG. 3 illustrates the boss and pivot pin adaptor disassembled;

(5) FIG. 4 is another view of the boss and pivot pin adaptor;

(6) FIG. 5 is a close-up view of the pin adaptor; and

(7) FIG. 6 is a view of the axle housing.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

(8) The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings and the following description to refer to the same and like parts. Dimensions of certain parts shown in the drawings may have been modified and/or exaggerated for the purposes of clarity or illustration.

(9) As illustrated in the Figures, a roller skate 10 includes a shoe 12, wheels 14 that are supported by an axle 16 and locked into place using nuts 18. The axle forms part of an axle housing that includes hanger 20 including two apertures 22 that are not threaded.

(10) A boss 24 includes threaded holes 26 and screws 28 pass through the hanger apertures 22 and engage the holes 26 to lock the axle hanger and hangar to the boss. The boss engages a king pin through aperture 30 extending from the roller skate (not shown) as is well known in the art and it is not intended to describe those features that are well known.

(11) Pin adaptor 32 engages the boss with a hole 34 coaxially aligned with two threaded apertures 36 in the boss 24 using a screw 44. The adaptor includes a shoulder 38 that internally abuts the boss 24. The pin adaptor includes an adjustable pin 40 secured to the adaptor 32 by engaging another threaded hole 42 and locked in a position using lock nut 44. The pivot pin in its pivot pin adaptor has a lock nut 44 which allows it to adjust in the pivot pin adaptor 32. This pivot pin adaptor part can be designed in two different shapes, one with a steep angle and one with a shallow angle. Commonly it will be supplied with a shallow angle adaptor, it is uncommon for it to be steep.

(12) The reader should now start to appreciate the present invention. Part of the benefit of this design is that the axle housing is detachable from the boss when installed on the roller skates and you can introduce a wider axle housing without requiring significant dismantling of the roller skate.

(13) The present invention facilitates bringing a wider truck onto an existing roller skate plate. A standard width truck to roller skate is typically 50 mm—the standard width that one buys off the shelf is a 50 mm truck. The truck is the entire element of boss and axle together.

(14) On the pivot pin adapter, the purpose of having a shallow and steep angles is that the king pin of trucks can be anywhere between 7 and 15 degrees and 20 and 31 degrees even. Common graduations are 7, 10, 15, 20 and 31.

(15) For each truck, its relationship between its king pin and its approach to its pivot pin cup, this angle can be of these graduations.

(16) The graduations are determined by the plate that is provided with a roller skate. The benefit of this invention, of it being adapted to be shallow or steep, is to facilitate between these angles.

(17) The present invention provides for an interchangeable axle housing. In current roller skates designs the axle housing cannot be removed from the truck body or boss being a one cast part.

LIST OF COMPONENTS

(18) The drawings include the following integers. 10 roller skate 12 shoe 14 wheels 16 axle 18 nuts 20 hanger 22 apertures 24 boss 26 threaded holes 28 screws 30 aperture 32 pin adaptor 34 hole 36 threaded apertures 38 shoulder 40 adjustable pin 42 threaded hole 44 lock nut 44 screw

(19) Further advantages and improvements may very well be made to the present invention without deviating from its scope. Although the invention has been shown and described in what is conceived to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is recognized that departures may be made therefrom within the scope of the invention, which is not to be limited to the details disclosed herein but is to be accorded the full scope of the claims to embrace all equivalent devices and apparatus. Any discussion of the prior art throughout the specification should in no way be considered as an admission that such prior art is widely known or forms part of the common general knowledge in this field.

(20) In the present specification and claims (if any), the word “comprising” and its derivatives including “comprises” and “comprise” include each of the stated integers but does not exclude the inclusion of one or more further integers.