Patent ID: 7303196
Filing Date: 2007-12-04
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
1. A steering assembly for an in-line roller skate with at least a front wheel and a rear wheel, comprising: a) a sole fixed to a boot; b) a drive member with a substantially horizontal attachment means to attach said drive member to said sole; c) a base member with a substantially horizontal rotatable attachment means to rotatably attach said base member to the underside of said drive member and said rotatable attachment means being substantially along the central length axis of said sole; d) said base member being approximately the length of said sole and having at least said front wheel and said rear wheel of the skate located on the under-side of said base member and substantially along the central length axis of the base; e) a rotatable wheel mechanism with a substantially horizontal rotatable attachment means to rotatably attach said rotatable wheel mechanism to the under-side of at least one end of said base member and substantially along said central length axis of said base; f) a continuous steerable holding means disposed outward from the central vertical axis of rotation of said rotatable wheel mechanism is provided, to firmly hold said wheel mechanism to said drive member at any horizontally rotated steered position along a predetermined distance of the rotation of said rotatable wheel mechanism, even when said skate is inclined sideways to the riding surface; g) said rotatable wheel mechanism having a wheel, with the plane of said wheel being located substantially along said central length axis of said base member and an alignment means is provided to align said plane thereof, from a laterally rotated position to a straight central position, when said skate is off the riding surface.