Patent ID: 7918035

Claim:
A gauge for measuring squareness of a skate blade of a skate, the skate blade having a pair of side walls and a pair of bottom blade edges, the gauge comprising: a squaring frame having a vertical blade contact surface fixed to a gauge plate having a horizontal top surface, the vertical blade contact surface selectively fixed to one of the side walls of the blade with a magnetic attachment means; and a blade angle indicator having a flat lower surface and a flat upper surface, the lower and upper surfaces being parallel; the squaring frame further including an oblong vertical pivot aperture therein and the blade angle indicator including an aperture therein, the squaring frame and the blade angle indicator pivotally fixable to each other with a pivot means; whereby with the skate inverted and each side wall of the blade held vertical, the blade contact surface of the squaring frame may be attached to one of the side walls of the blade with the magnetic attachment means, and the blade angle indicator may be rested across the blades edges of the blade such that the upper surface of the blade angle indicator is proximate the horizontal top surface of the squaring frame, the squareness of the blade edges with respect to side walls of the blade being indicated by comparing the angle between the horizontal top surface of the squaring frame and the upper surface of the blade angle indicator.