GB1112246A - Ice skate and adjustment means therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

1,112.246. Skate. C. WEISMAN. 18 May, 1966, No. 22162/66. Heading A6D. An ice skate comprises (a) a shoe adapted to be worn on a skater's foot, (b) a plate means attached to theunderside of the shoe (c) a pair of elongated, transverse guide means integral with the under surface of said plate each of said guide means being defined by two pairs of U-shaped grooves defined.. by pairs of opposed bearing faces each of said pairs of bearing faces being at an angle to each other said bearing faces extending the operational length of said guide means, (d) front and rear stanchions adjustably positioned on said guide means, each of said stanchions being provided at its upper end with a elongated channel defined by a pair of opposed bearing faces having the same angular relationship to each other as said bearing faces of said guide means, each of said stanchions being further provided with a transverse slot having opposed side walls extending downwardly from said channel into the body of said stanchions, (e) screw means to clamp each of said stanchions to the respective one of said guide means, (f) a skating blade rigidly secured to the lower end of said for and alft stanchions, said blade being laterally adjustable with respect to said shoe and (g) adjustable support means for the blade at the toe end of the sole plate. Figs. 1 and 11 show stanchions 28 and 30 and guide members 34 and 36. In Figs. 5 the stanchion 28 is provided with a channel 46 having U- shaped grooves 48 and 50 adapted to mate with ways 40 and 42, and one side near the top of stanchion 28 is provided with a tapped hole 54 and the other side is provided with a coaxial clearance hole 56 and a counterbore for clamping screw 58, the bottom end of the stanchion is slotted at 60 in a plane perpendicular to channel 46. Slot 60 engages the top of blade 24 to prevent rotation.