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A two-piece longitudinally adjustable roller skate has a pair of support axles resiliently mounted to it. Each axis is mounted for pivotal movement about a transverse axis. The axes are downwardly converging about the middle of the skate so that pressure to one side or the other will cause the inner

A two-piece longitudinally adjustable roller skate has a pair of support axles resiliently mounted to it. Each axis is mounted for pivotal movement about a transverse axis. The axes are downwardly converging about the middle of the skate so that pressure to one side or the other will cause the inner ends of the axles to move together, thus causing automatic turning of the skate. Each axle mounts a pair of spherical wheels. Each wheel includes an internal bearing having a single inner and a single outer race formed within the wheel. Each axle extends through an axle carrier which mounts the axle and the pair of wheels is mounted on the ends of an axle which extend out of the associated axle carrier. The bearings in the wheels abut the axle carrier and are held in place by nuts attached to the axle ends.

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In a roller skate having a base plate, front and rear axle assemblies establishing parallel spaced rotational axes, resilient mounting means for connecting the base plate to each of the axle assemblies, and a pair of roller wheels mounted on each of said axle assemblies for rotation about said rotat

In a roller skate having a base plate, front and rear axle assemblies establishing parallel spaced rotational axes, resilient mounting means for connecting the base plate to each of the axle assemblies, and a pair of roller wheels mounted on each of said axle assemblies for rotation about said rotational axes, the improvement residing in each of said mounting means including parallel spaced flanges depending from the base plate perpendicular thereto and a resilient pad in abutment with the base plate between the flanges, each of said axle assemblies including an axle carrier and an axle rod on which one of said pairs of the roller wheels is mounted, the axle carrier having a U-shaped portion with lugs projecting therefrom parallel to the base plate into apertures formed in the flanges to accommodate limited pivotal motion of the axle carrier relative to the base plate and an axle tube integral with the U-shaped portion through which the axle rod extends, the U-shaped portion including a base inclined relative to the base plate and from which the axle tube extends, the resilient pad being enclosed by the U-shaped portion in abutment with the base thereof, each of said roller wheels including two hemispherical sections forming a spherical body having a diametral bore and a recess in one of the sections into which the bore opens, the other of the sections of the spherical body receiving one of the axle tubes within the bore, the axle rods in said axle tubes extending therefrom through the bores into the recesses of said spherical bodies, and a bearing assembly for each of the roller wheels, comprising a bearing sleeve mounted on the axle rod within the bore associated therewith, said bearing sleeve having an external race, assembly means mounted on the axle rod and engageable with the bearing sleeve for holding thereof in axial abutment with the axle tube, an internal race embedded within the roller wheel, and ball bearing means seated within the external and internal races for rotatably supporting the wheel on the bearing sleeve in axially overlapping relation to the axle tube and the assembly means.