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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1994
Filed:
May. 15, 1992
Byron L Goodspeed, Castle Rock, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A skateboard is provided with a low profile and a simplified mechanism for driving the same without interfering with skateboard steering. A narrow drive belt is entrained about a centrally located pulley integrally mounted on a shaft carrying forward wheels including an overrunning clutch mechanism. A pedal mounted on the front of the board drives a horizontally displaceable rack via an intermediate cam member which provides a variable velocity. The rack in turn drives pinions operative for winding the drive belt around a pulley against spring tension applied at the remote end of the belt. The belt may also be entrained about a rear wheel pulley for empowering the rear wheels of the board.