Roller skate toe stop assembly

Claim 1

For mounting on a roller skate structure that includes a body plate affixed to a roller skate shoe, a hanger secured to the underside of said body plate near the front end thereof and provided with a bearing bore at the front end thereof, and a wheel axle mounting truck comprising an inclined rod portion of non-circular cross-section and having an upper, forward end thereof received within said bearing bore, and a laterally leftwardly and rightwardly extending wheel axle bearing portion formed at the lower, rear end of the rod portion; toe stop assembly comprising: a pair of holding members disengageably securable to said truck to project upwardly and forwardly therefrom and intersecting each other at forward ends thereof, each holding member having an upwardly facing embracing arm at the downward and inward end thereof for embracing said wheel axle bearing portion from below and further having a laterally facing gripping arm projecting therefrom suprajacent the embracing arm thereof, and respectively disposed for gripping engagement with said rod portion at opposed sides of said rod portion, said holding members each having the gripping arm thereof provided with an interior face of a non-circular configuration generally corresponding to the non-circular cross-sectional rod portion; a through bore transversally extending through each of the respective holding members from lateral sides thereof in front of said rod portion; a tightening bolt threaded in the through bores of both said holding members; means hinging the holding members together at their intersecting forward ends; and a rubber toe stop body mounted at the intersecting forward ends of said holding members.