Patent ID: 7311318
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
1. A skateboard, comprising in combination: a board having a top surface adapted to bear a rider thereon and a bottom surface opposite said top surface; two trucks coupled to said bottom surface, each said truck including an elongate axle extending perpendicular to a direction of skateboard travel, said axle having two distal ends each distal end adapted to rollingly support a wheel thereon; said axle supported by said truck at a point between said distal ends of said axle; and said wheels having a tread including a pair of crests spaced from each other by a circumferential trough, said trough having a lesser diameter than said crests, said crests being parallel with each other within each said wheel, said crests of a first said wheel adjacent a first distal end of said axle being parallel with said crests of a second wheel adjacent a second distal end and of said axle opposite said first end.