Abstract: Skate comprises a shoe portion (1) a ground touching device (11) and a transition portion (3) which connects the ground touching device (11) to the shoe portion (1). The shoe portion (1) and the transition portion (3) are made in one piece and form a shell of a sandwich construction with a core (5) made of foam plastic and outer layers (6,7) made of plastic reinforced with glass or carbon fibers. The ground touching device (11) may be a metal section fastened by glue in a downwards opening groove (1) formed in the transition portion (3) and adapted to glide on ice or rollers arranged in the groove and adapted to rotate about respective shafts fastened to the transition portion. There is thus provided a very light skate which renders good support to the foot and has little air resistance.

Abstract: A flexible terminal point, specially for lattice work constructions comprising a tube formed terminal means (5), which is secured to one of the bars (1), and which at its one end (7) receives the other bar (3) in a manner which allows limited flexibility. Through the tubelike terminal means (5) runs one or several tie-rods, by which the terminal means (5) is attached to the other bar, and by which the terminal means can be pretensioned, whereby load changes in the other bar (3) only to a lesser degree cause strain changes in the tie-rod (15) while the major part of the loads in the other bar (3) is taken up by the tube-like terminal means (5) which is set under compression forces. Coupling between terminal means (5) and the movable bar (3) is effected by means of a bearing socket via a rubber pad (13) or spherical surfaces in the terminal means (5) and movable bar (3).