Patent ID: 8273182

Claim:
A handheld device for removing moisture from a skate blade, comprising: a body, including a front end and a rear end, the body defining a skate blade pathway substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis extending from the front end to the rear end, and defining a front skate blade receiving slot and a rear skate blade receiving slot; and a plurality of flexible wiper blades disposed within the body and distributed along the longitudinal axis extending from the front end to the rear end, each of the plurality of flexible wiper blades having a height greater than a width, the height being transverse to the longitudinal axis; a plug disposed within the body and adapted to contact a bottom surface of the skate blade; wherein each of the plurality of flexible wiper blades flexes forward or backward along the longitudinal axis and contacts a surface of a skate blade when the skate blade is traversing the skate blade pathway.