Patent ID: 7080845
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
1. A truck for a skateboard, the skateboard having a deck comprising a base structure for attachment to the skateboard deck, a yoke assembly having a spaced-apart portions flexibly supported by the base structure by oppositely-facing upper and lower support structure in substantial alignment, and a king-pin assembly including a king-pin for clamping the base structure and the yoke assembly together, so that with a pair of skateboard wheels carried by the truck, the arrangement is such that the rotational axis of the wheels is disposed substantially at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the king-pin and said rotational axis of the wheels is also disposed at a steering head angle of between 45° and 20° to the vertical when the skateboard is at rest on the ground, and remains spaced from, and substantially parallel to the plane containing the radial arc of the wheel axis as it rotates about the steering head angle, said plane being substantially perpendicular to the steering head angle.