Patent ID: 7264091

Claim:
A brake assembly for inline skates having a boot portion, a frame supported below said boot portion, said frame having a right and a left downwardly directed frame member, each downwardly directed frame member supporting at least four axles, each axle supporting a wheel, each frame member extending below said axles, said brake assembly comprising: a right and a left carrier plate positioned against at least a portion of a respective opposed inner face of said right and left downwardly directed frame members said right and left carrier plates being moveable between a disengaged position and an engaged position; at least two conical diabolos supported by said right and left carrier plates, each diabolo having a pair of wheel contacting portions, each of said diabolos comprising two brake diabolo disks rotatably held over a diabolo axle supported by said carrier plates, each of said brake diabolo disks having a tapered surface for contacting an outer surface of a pair of wheels and the tapered surface having a wider portion at an outer side and a narrower portion at an inner side and each of said diabolo disks having a friction inducing surface on an outer end of each of said two brake diabolo disks for contact with said carrier plates when said diabolo is moved into a braking position, each diabolo being positioned between two wheels so that they do not contact a wheel when said right and left carrier plates are in said disengaged position and so that a first diabolo's wheel contacting portions directly contact two wheels and a second diabolo's wheel contacting portions directly contact two different wheels from said two wheels of said first diabolo when said carrier plates are in said engaged position, thereby exerting a decelerating frictional braking force on all four wheels as a direct result of said at least two diabolos directly contacting all four wheels; and means for moving said carrier plates between said disengaged position and said engaged position.