Patent Application
20220314104
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The disclosure relates to skateboard brake devices and more particularly pertains to a new skateboard brake device for easily adding and removing brakes to a skateboard. The present invention includes a clip to easily attach to a skateboard. There is also a curved brake pad to contact the wheel.
The prior art relates to skateboard brake devices. Known devices include attached brakes to contact an inner surface of the skateboard wheels and lack cup shaped brake pads. These devices are typically screwed or adhered to the skateboard deck rather than being clipped on for easy removal.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a clip base having a base underside and a base top side. A clip top has a top underside and a top top side. The top underside is pivotably coupled to the base top side. A spring is coupled to the clip base and the clip top. The spring biases the clip top towards the clip base. The clip base and the clip top are configured to be attached to a deck of a skateboard. A brake housing is coupled to the clip base. The brake housing has a housing top side coupled to the base underside, a housing bottom side, a housing inner side, a housing outer side, and a pair of housing lateral sides. A brake pad is coupled to the brake housing. The brake pad is coupled to the housing bottom side and is configured to contact a wheel perimeter of a wheel of the skateboard.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A spring 28 is coupled to the clip base 12 and the clip top 20. The spring 28 may include a pair of spring axles 30 coupled to the plurality of base ears 18 and the plurality of top ears 26 and a pair of torsion springs 32 coupled around the pair of spring axles 30. The spring 28 biases the clip top 20 towards the clip base 12. The clip base 12 and the clip top 20 are configured to be attached to a deck 34 of a skateboard 36. The clip top 20 may be positioned such that it rests parallel to the clip base 12 when securing the deck 34 of the skateboard. A pair of clip grips 38 may be coupled to the clip base 12 and the clip top 20. The pair of clip grips 38 is coupled to the base top side 16 and the top underside 22 to improve grip on the deck 34 of the skateboard and prevent accidental disengagement.
A brake housing 40 is coupled to the clip base 12. The brake housing 40 has a housing top side 42 coupled to the base underside 14, a housing bottom side 44, a housing inner side 46, a housing outer side 48, and a pair of housing lateral sides 50. The housing inner side 46 may be aligned with a base distal edge 52 of the clip base. The housing bottom side 44 has a semicircular wheel well portion 54. The width of the pair of housing lateral sides 50 may be wider than a wheel 56 of the skateboard.
A brake pad 58 is coupled to the brake housing 40. The brake pad 58 is coupled to the housing bottom side 44 and is configured to contact a wheel perimeter 60 of the wheel 56 of the skateboard. The brake pad 58 is coupled within the wheel well portion 54 and conforms to the semicircular shape. The brake pad 58 may be of uniform thickness excepting a pair of rounded brake edges 62 adjacent a pair of outer portions 64 of the housing bottom side on each side of the wheel well portion 54. The brake pad 58 may be a rubberized material designed to create even friction on the wheel 56 of the skateboard while being resilient to wear.
In use, the clip base 12 and the clip top 20 are secured onto the deck 34 of the skateboard to position the brake pad 58 around the wheel 56. As the skateboard 36 goes downhill the rider may apply pressure to the deck 34 to contact the brake pad 58 to the wheel 56 and slow the skateboard 36. Once on level ground the rider may unclip the apparatus 10 from the deck 34 for normal and trick riding.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
