Patent ID: 7866705

Claim:
An ice skate and skate guard assembly comprising: a skate boot with a sole; a platform extending downwardly from said sole of said boot and terminating at a pair of longitudinally extending and laterally spaced shoulders with a bottom slot arranged between said shoulders; a blade disposed partially in said slot and partially projecting out of said slot beyond said shoulders to an edge; a skate guard having a longitudinally extending body formed with an open-topped channel bounded by a pair of laterally spaced side walls and a bottom wall, said channel sized to receive said edge of said blade and maintain said edge from contact with said bottom wall, wherein said side walls include respective upper support surfaces that engage said shoulders of said platform such that weight of a user is transferred from said skate to said skate guard directly between said shoulders and said upper support surfaces; and at least a pair of wheels mounted on said skate guard in longitudinally spaced relation to one another, and wherein both of said side walls contact opposite sides of said portion of said blade in said channel substantially along a full length of said blade, and said platform has a front nose portion that extends from a front tip of said blade rearwardly and upwardly, and wherein said skate guard includes an undercut cup portion at a front end of said platform that wraps around said front tip and pockets said nose in said cup portion precluding said skate guard from being pulled free of said ice skate without first sliding said skateguard forwardly to remove said nose form said undercut pocket of said skate guard.