Patent ID: 6454279
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: A43B,A63C

Abstract:
A skate with foldable wheels, comprising a shoe body, a sole, a folding device and a plurality of wheels, said shoe body is for insertion therein a foot of a user, said sole is provided on the bottom of the shoe body, and is combined with said folding device, said wheels are provided beneath said sole; said skate is characterized by that:said sole is made of thick material with a little elasticity, and has two elongate slots thereon, said sole is provided inwardly from the two lateral sides thereof with two recesses respectively; said folding device includes an elongate bottom plate, a folding mechanism and a pressing mechanism; said elongate bottom plate is provided on the top of said sole, members of said folding mechanism are extended through said two elongate slots to be hung at both lateral sides of said sole, said wheels are collapsed to place in said recesses by means of links, fixing pieces, slide grooves, latching axles and springs, said folding mechanism and said pressing mechanism are combined with each other; by provision of push buttons, axles and springs on said two lateral sides, said folding mechanism is in a released state when said push buttons on said two lateral sides are pressed, now said wheels are collapsed by an external force into said recesses of said sole and are stretched out from said recessed by means of said springs automatically and wherein, said elongate bottom plate of said folding device is provided on the front end thereof with a protrusion, and is provided on the front and rear ends thereof with two front and rear hanging sheets respectively; said front hanging sheets are provided each with a hole and a slide slot beneath said hole; said rear hanging sheets are provided each with a positioning notch and a slide slot beneath said positioning notch, further there is a hole beneath said slide slot; said fixing pieces include two front and two rear fixing pieces, said two front fixing pieces are provided outside of said front hanging sheets respectively, said front fixing pieces are provided each with three holes serially from up downwards; and said two rear fixing pieces are provided outside of said rear hanging sheets respectively which are provided each with a slide slot and three holes serially from up downwards, said slide slot has on both ends thereof a positioning end of a larger diameter; one of said links is movably connected between said front and rear fixing pieces and is provided on both ends thereof with a hole extended therethrough by a latching axle each; said front and rear fixing pieces are further extended therethrough each by a fixing latch as an axis, said springs are respectively provided on said fixing latches and two blocks all between said rear fixing pieces, number of said springs provided on said fixing latches is at least one which each has an end connected to a corresponding one of said latching axles, and has another end abutted against said elongate bottom plate; said pressing mechanism is provided on said two lateral sides of said sole with two push buttons which each has an axle provided on the front end thereof with a threaded portion having a smaller diameter, said threaded portion of said axle is extended serially through an annular engaging block, a slide slot of one of said rear fixing pieces and a positioning notch provided in one of said rear hanging sheets of said elongate bottom plate to connect with one of said blocks; said block has one end thereof abutted against a spring, the other end of said spring abuts against said elongate bottom plate; with such arrangement, collapsing and stretching of said wheels are convenient and simple.