Patent ID: 8226095
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: A63C,F16C

Abstract:
1. An assembly structured to transport an individual over a supporting surface, said assembly comprising: a platform comprising oppositely disposed surfaces, a wheel assembly rotationally connected to said platform and disposable in movable engagement with the supporting surface, said wheel assembly including at least one wheel having a spherical configuration, a bearing assembly structured to movably interconnect said one wheel to said platform, said bearing assembly cooperatively structured with said platform to facilitate substantially universal, rotational movement of the one wheel relative to said platform, said one wheel disposed and dimensioned to extend concurrently outward from each of said oppositely disposed surfaces of said platform, wherein said bearing assembly is disposed in movable, retaining engagement with an exterior surface of said one wheel, 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 platform, and wherein said bearing assembly comprises two bearing sections each disposed in retaining engagement with said exterior surface in spaced relation to one another and on opposite sides of a common, correspondingly disposed imaginary great circle of said exterior surface of said one wheel.