Patent ID: 8226096
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
1. An assembly structured to transport an individual over a supporting surface, said assembly comprising: a base including a wheel assembly rotationally connected to said base and disposable in moveable engagement with the supporting surface, a support platform movably connected to said base and disposed and structured for supporting engagement with at least one foot of the individual, said support platform selectively disposable into and out of confronting relation to the supporting surface upon predetermined manipulation of the one foot, said support platform comprising at least one contact portion disposable into engagement with the supporting surface in a manner which at least partially influences a velocity of said base, said wheel assembly comprising at least one wheel; a bearing assembly disposed in movable, retaining engagement with an exterior surface of said one wheel and in interconnecting relation between said one wheel and said base, said bearing assembly and said one wheel cooperatively disposed and structured to facilitate a substantially universal range of motion of said one wheel relative to said base, said bearing assembly comprising a first portion and a second portion collectively and movably interconnecting said one wheel to said base; said first and second portions disposed and structured to facilitate a substantially universal rotational range of motion of said one wheel relative to said base, and an axle extending through a center of said one wheel and at least partially defining at least one rotational axis of said one wheel.