Patent ID: 8336895
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: A63C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of making a skateboard, comprising: providing a plurality of layers of wood; providing an impact support member comprising a fiber-reinforced composite; pressing and bonding the wood layers together to form a deck; designating a truck mount zone of the deck, the deck adapted to receive a skateboard truck mounted thereon and aligned with the truck mount zone; forming an aperture through one of the layers of wood, the aperture shaped and sized to complement the impact support member, the aperture positioned so as to be generally aligned with the truck mount zone, arranging the impact support member in the aperture and generally aligned with the truck mount zone, the impact support member radiating outwardly from the truck mount zone to a terminus between the truck mount zone and an edge of the deck; applying an adhesive between layers of the skateboard deck, wherein a volume per unit area of adhesive applied between the one of the layers having the aperture and an immediately adjacent layer is greater in an area adjacent the aperture than an average volume per unit area of adhesive between layers throughout the skateboard; wherein the impact support member disperses impact forces.