Patent ID: 6935640
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: A63C,B62B

Abstract:
1. An approved snow scooter having a general symmetry about a longitudinal plane, a stand-on area, a back portion rearward of the stand-on area, a handle, and at least one gliding surface having a flat portion defining a gliding plane, the improvement comprising: a brake plate having two major dimensions and a minor dimension, the two major dimensions defining a face oriented generally transverse to the longitudinal plane, the brake plate trailingly and pivotably affixed to the scooter in the back portion with a pivot transverse to the longitudinal plane, the brake plate coupled to an actuation surface operable with a foot of a rider via a coupling structure that extends from the actuation surface disposed above the gliding surface, through a cut-out in the gliding surface, to the brake plate, the actuation surface being at the back portion of the scooter, the brake plate being retained above the gliding plane of the flat portion of the gliding surface by a spring until depressed with a force that overcomes the spring allowing the brake plate to pivot downwardly to protrude below the gliding plane of the flat portion of the gliding surface.