Front wheel brake for roller skate

Claim 1

A roller skate with a front end brake on said skate, said skate having a skate boot with a boot undersurface and a rigid frame secured to said undersurface, a plurality of rollers comprising a front roller and other rollers behind and inline with said front roller, all of said rollers being rotatably mounted on roller axles secured to said rigid frame, said brake comprising a brake wheel rotatbly mounted on a brake wheel mount which is movably secured to said boot undersurface forwardly of said front roller, a brake member secured to said boot undersurface between and spaced from said brake wheel and said front roller, said skate being movable between a rolling position in which all of said rollers roll along a rolling surface on which said skate is supported to a braking position in which said skate is tipped forwardly from said rolling position onto said brake wheel, said brake wheel having a peripheral surface with a lower reach above that of said front roller and being freely rotatable and free of the rolling surface when said skate is in the rolling position and when said skate is in the braking position, said brake wheel is pushed rearwardly such that said peripheral surface of said brake wheel is moved onto and binds against rotation on said brake member; and a spring mounted on a spring support to said boot undersurface, said spring pushing on said brake wheel mount in a direction away from said front roller and biasing said brake wheel away from said front roller when said skate is in the rolling position.