Patent ID: 7470219

Claim:
An ice-skating training apparatus for exercising and conditioning by ice-skating thereon, the ice-skating training apparatus comprising: a pair of opposed matching elongate platforms, said platforms interconnected at their opposing front corners and extending backward therefrom wherein each platform is provided with a base frame structure having two opposing side rails, a distal rail extending between one set of juxtaposed ends of the two side rails, and a two-section proximal rail extending between the opposite juxtaposed ends of the two side rails wherein a first section of the proximal rail is configured to extend from the side rail at an obtuse angle, whereby abutting the first section of the proximal rail of a first base frame structure with the first section of the proximal rail of a second base frame structure forms an angle selected from the range consisting of 90° to 10°; a pair of matching exercise surface assemblies, said exercise surface assemblies selected for controllably engaging and disengaging a user's ice skates thereon, each of said exercise surface assemblies configured for mountable engagement therein with one of the matching platforms; at least one user-graspable guardrail configured for demountable engagement with a side portion of said training apparatus; wherein each exercise surface assembly is provided with a plurality of equi-distantly spaced apart roller units demountably communicating with a plurality of roller support brackets and an endless drive belt laterally adjacent the exercise surface assembly, said roller support brackets demountably engaged with said platform, wherein each roller unit comprises a plurality of spaced apart free-spinning rollers interconnected end-to-end; the ends of each roller provided with identical bores for receiving a spindle thereinto each end, said spindle demountably communicating with a hook-shaped receptacle depending from the top of one of said roller support brackets; wherein each of said roller units has a first spindle extending therefrom an outward-facing bore in a terminal roller at a first end of the roller unit for rotatingly communicating with a roller support bracket, and a second spindle extending therefrom the second end of the roller unit, the second spindle engaging a plurality of teeth provided therefor in the endless drive belt when a pressure is applied to the roller unit.