Chassis for an in-line skate or an ice skate, and a skate including such a chassis

Abstract

The chassis for a skate for in-line wheels or for ice comprises two preformed main parts suitable for being assembled together by a fastener screw: a) a first part having, in its bottom portion, the body of the chassis for mounting the wheels or the blade, and, in its top portion, the heel cup; and b) a second part constituting at least the toe cup. The two parts include: longitudinal sliding means suitable for co-operating by the second part sliding relative to the first part from an insertion, front position to an assembled, rear position; and fastener means in which the fastener screw, having a longitudinal direction and accessible from the front face of the second part, serves to lock the two parts together in the assembled position.

1 . A chassis for a skate for in-line wheels or for ice, the chassis comprising two main preformed parts suitable for being assembled together by a fastener screw, namely: 
 a) a first part having, in its bottom portion, the body of the chassis for mounting the wheels or the blade, and, in its top portion, the heel cup; and    b) a second part constituting at least the toe cup;    wherein the two parts include: 
 longitudinal sliding means suitable for co-operating by the second part sliding relative to the first part from an insertion, front position to an assembled, rear position; and  
 fastener means in which the fastener screw, having a longitudinal direction and accessible from the front face of the second part, serves to lock the two parts together in the assembled position.  
   
   
   
       2 . A chassis according to  claim 1 , wherein the longitudinal sliding means comprise at least a slideway-forming longitudinal groove formed in one of the two parts and a longitudinal shoulder formed in the other part and suitable for sliding as a snug fit in said groove.  
   
   
       3 . A chassis according to  claim 2 , wherein the first part includes a front portion for being situated, after assembly, under the toe cup, said front portion having two outwardly-facing side faces in which two longitudinal grooves are formed, and that the second part includes two bottom fins having two inwardly-facing sides on which there are formed two longitudinal shoulders suitable for sliding in the longitudinal grooves of the first part.  
   
   
       4 . A chassis according to  claim 2 , wherein the top and bottom edges of each shoulder and of each groove form between each other and in longitudinal section, a small angle of a few degrees.  
   
   
       5 . A chassis according to  claim 1 , wherein, in addition to the fastener screw, the fastening means include a tapped locking insert, and the first part includes a cavity suitable for serving as a fitted housing for the tapped insert and for passing the fastener screw, and the first and second parts include, in their front faces, through holes which, after assembly, open out into said cavity and enable the fastener screw to pass through and be fastened in the tapped insert.  
   
   
       6 . A chassis according to  claim 3 , wherein the cavity of the insert is formed in the top face of the front portion of the first part.  
   
   
       7 . A skate fitted with a chassis according to  claim 1 , in which the second part has a toe cup of small size, and in which the skate includes a boot whose toe is secured by adhesive to all or part of the inside surface of the toe cup.  
   
   
       8 . A skate according to  claim 7 , wherein the boot possesses a rigid sole and an upper whose side flanks are folded under the sole and secured to the bottom face of the sole so as to form two side beads defining a visible zone of the sole in which at least one ventilation hole is provided, and the boot is fixed to the toe cup via its sole solely via the two side beads, and the second part of the chassis and the boot have respective front openings opening out into the available space between the visible zone of the sole and the toe cup.  
   
   
       9 . A skate according to  claim 8 , wherein the top face of the first part is provided with at least one ventilation hole which, when the chassis is in the assembled position, is in register with the ventilation hole of the rigid sole.  
   
   
       10 . A skate fitted with a chassis according to  claim 1 , and with a flexible boot, wherein the second part of the chassis has a toe cup which is provided with rearwardly-extending side extensions that, in the assembled position of the chassis, come to be fitted to the toe cup of the first part, said side extensions defining between them a space into which the flexible boot is inserted, and being themselves fitted with closure means.  
   
   
       11 . A skate according to  claim 10 , wherein the side extensions of the second part are secured to the heel cup of the first part.