Abstract: A roller skate foot plate has downwardly depending sockets which receive resilient cushion blocks therein. An axle is seated in the lower end of each cushion block. A bolt passes axially through the cushion block and through an opening in the axle. In assembling and disassembling the device, the cushion block is compressed between the socket and axle to permit free rotatable application to or removal of a nut from the bolt.

Abstract: A skate structure including a cylindrical braking member mounted on a transverse horizontal shaft. A radially extending bolt is countersunk into the shaft and extends upwardly through a slot in the toe of the skate's foot plate. A groove in the foot plate above the slot receives a nut and prevents the nut from turning during tightening of the bolt, which threadably passes through the nut. The braking member is firmly received in a downwardly and forwardly extending socket which communicates with the slot.