Heel-locking device for snow glide board bindings
AssigneeSpark R&D IP Holdings, LLC
InventorWilliam J. Ritter
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Abstract
A mechanism for locking the heel portion of a snow glide board boot binding. The heel-locking device locks and unlocks by rotating a lever. The heel-locking device allows the rider to lock their boot binding hands-free to the snow glide board by pressuring the back of the boot binding baseplate with their boot while the heel-locking device is in the locked position. Once locked, the rider must rotate the lever to a predetermined position to unlock the boot binding.
Claims15
A heel-locking device for locking a boot binding baseplate of a snow glide board, comprising:
- a lever including a pin projecting directly from the lever and positioned rotationally eccentric with respect to the lever;
- a heel rest secured to the snow glide board;
- a slotted bracket that slidably engages the heel rest, the slotted bracket includes a pin-engaging slot at least partially positioned transverse to a direction of slidable engagement between the slotted bracket and the heel rest;
- a lock bar secured to the slotted bracket;
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- the lever being rotated causes the pin to engage the pin-engaging slot thereby moving the slotted bracket and the lock bar in relation to the heel rest and securing the boot binding baseplate to the lock bar.
A device for locking a boot binding to a snow glide board, comprising:
- a heel-locking assembly secured to the snow glide board;
- a boot binding baseplate;
- with a heel end of the boot binding baseplate being aligned over the heel-locking assembly, a downward force to the heel end of the boot binding baseplate causes the boot binding baseplate to lock to the heel-locking assembly and the snow glide board;
- the heel-locking assembly includes a lever and a lock bar;
- the lock bar is movable lengthwise along the boot binding baseplate by rotation of the lever;
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- with the lock bar being positioned under the boot binding baseplate but not locked, the downward force to the heel end causes the boot binding baseplate to lock the heel-locking assembly.
A heel-locking device for locking a boot binding baseplate of a snow glide board, comprising:
- a heel-locking assembly including a lever and a lock bar;
- the lock bar is movable lengthwise along the boot binding baseplate by rotation of the lever, the heel-locking assembly is locked to the boot binding baseplate by the lock bar with the lever being rotated toward a first end of rotation;
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- the lever has an increase in resistance to movement as it rotates away from the first end of rotation followed by a decrease in resistance to movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.