Patent ID: 7931519

Claim:
A finger operated skateboard toy comprising: a fingerboard skateboard including an elongated skateboard deck having a front nose portion, a rear tail kick portion, and an intermediate deck portion projecting between the front nose portion and the rear tail kick portion, each portion having an obstruction-free top surface and an opposing bottom surface, the surfaces cooperating to provide a finger engaging region providing multiple points of releasable engagement for a user's first and second fingers to move across, the finger engaging region being responsive to movement of the first and second fingers to maneuver and lift the skateboard deck to simulate one or more rider-bearing skateboard tricks normally conducted with a user's feet; a first wheel truck coupled to the bottom surface of the skateboard deck within the front nose or intermediate deck portions and rotatably coupled to a first set of one or more wheels and; a second wheel truck spaced apart from the first wheel truck and coupled to the bottom surface of the skateboard deck and rotatably coupled to a second set of one or more wheels with the wheels of the first and second trucks being operable to roll over an underlying support surface; and a flex element hingedly coupling the intermediate deck portion to the rear tail kick portion, the flex element being biased to maintain the rear tail kick portion in a normally upwardly bent position away from the underlying surface when both sets of wheels are placed on the underlying surface and no finger pressure is applied to the rear tail kick portion, the flex element further being operable to, with the user's first finger in contact with the top surface of the front nose or intermediate deck portions and the user's second finger in contact with the top surface of the rear tail kick portion of the skateboard deck and both sets of wheels on the underlying support surface, flex allowing depression of the rear tail kick portion by the user's second finger to rotate the rear tail kick portion about a transverse axis toward the underlying surface while increasing the normal force between the user's first finger and top surface of the skateboard deck to increase the frictional force therebetween, the flex element further being constructed to snap the rear tail kick portion in a depressed position back toward the normally upwardly bent position lifting the rear truck wheels off the underlying support surface when pressure exerted by the user's finger on the rear tail kick portion is removed.