Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left 7th May 1897 Accepted 3rd July, 1897
I, JULIUS MOELLER, of No. 14 Palmer Street, Westminster, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of skates with balls arranged in such
a manner that the skates are capable of running on rink or other floors not requiring
to be ice.
For this purpose, under the footboard of the skate I provide a longitudinal metal
keel or rib having two grooves along it, the one near the lower edge, the other
at a higher level separated from the lower by a partition, but at each end the grooves
are curved round so as to communicate with each other. In these grooves I place
a number of balls which are free to run along the grooves; those that are in the
lower groove roll along the floor as the skate advances, and, as they reach the rear end
of the groove, they are caused to travel up the curve to the upper groove, to roll
along it to the front, to descend the front curve and again to roll along the lower
groove, which is of such a form that a portion of the spherical surface of each ball
projects a little beyond the lower edge of the keel, while those edges project a little
inwards and prevent the balls from rolling or falling out.
The balls, instead of being truly spherical, are preferably of the form of oblong
spheroids so that they revolve only around their long axes, and consequently do not
allow the skate to roll sideways along the ground. Or, instead of making the halls
in the form of spheroids, they may be round edged rollers with central pins projecting
as axles on each side, the grooves of the keel being in that case of such size and
form as to freely admit these axle pins.
Instead of making one pair of grooves in the keel extending the whole length of
the skate, I may make a short groove near the front and a short groove near the
rear, each of approximately semicircular form, with its straight part or diameter
lowest, so that the balls roll along the straight lower part of the groove to its rear,
then run round the curved part of the groove, returning to its front to take their
course again along the straight part.
Dated this 7th day of July 1896
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Skates for Rink and other Floors.
I, JULIUS MOELLER, of No. 14 Palmer Street, Westminster, in the County of
5 London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention relates to the construction of skates with balls arranged in such
a manner that the skates are capable of running on rink or other floors not requiring
O to be ice.

page_text: For this purpose, under the footboard of the skate I provide a longitudinal metal
keel or rib having two grooves along it, the one near the lower edge, the other
at a higher level separated from the lower by a partition, but at each end the grooves
are curved round so as to communicate with each other. In these grooves I place
a number of balls which are free to run along the grooves; those that are in the
lower groove roll along the floor as the skate advances, and, as they reach the rear
end of the groove, they are caused to travel up the curve to the upper groove, to roll
along it to the front, to descend the front curve and again to roll along the lower
groove, which is of such a form that a portion of the spherical surface of each ball
projects a little beyond the lower edge of the keel, while those edges project a. little
inwards and prevent the balls from rolling or falling out.
The balls, instead of being truly spherical, are preferably of the form of oblong
spheroids so that they revolve only around their long axes, and consequently do not
allow the skate to roll sideways along the ground. Or, instead of making the balls
in the form of spheriods, they may be round edged rollers with central pins projecting
as axles on each side, the grooves of the keel being in that case of such size and form
as to freely admit these axle pins.
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Instead of making one pair of grooves in the keel extending the whole length
of the skate, I may make a short groove near the front and a short groove near the
rear and one in the middle each of approximately semicircular form, with its straight
part or diameter lowest, so that the balls roll along the straight lower part of the
groove to its rear, then run round the curved part of the groove, returning to
its front to take their course again along the straight part.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section and Fig. 2 is
a transverse section of a skate arranged according to my invention to run on balls,
in the form of oblong spheroids. Fig. 3 is a part longitudinal section and Fig. 4
is a transverse section shewing a modification.
Referring first to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the foot board of the skate to which are
attached two vertical cheeks C having cut in them semicircular grooves in which run
balls B. I prefer to arrange the middle set of balls so as to project a little farther down
than the other sets so that the skate can be swung round horizontally on the middle
balls as on a centre. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4 rollers with rounded edges are
employed instead of balls, these rollers having central pins projecting as axles on each
side and running in grooves in the cheeks C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim. is :-
A skate arranged to run on balls or their equivalents, substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this bah
M. 1907
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.