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US 2007/0163153 A1Published application
Single-pull binding for a snowshoe
AssigneeK-2 Corporation
InventorsJames Monsees, Daniel Emerson
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Abstract
A boot binding for a snowshoe, suspended within the snowshoe for flexibility of the boot relative to the snowshoe in the pitch direction, has a binding footbed that is flexible and allows bending of the boot in the pitch directed, as steps are taken by the user.
Claims15
A snowshoe binding, comprising:
- a footbed for engaging against the bottom of a user's boot and adapted for securing to a snowshoe,
- boot binding elements extending up from the footbed, with flexible means connecting a pair of slip-through type adjustment buckles to one side of the footbed, one adjustment buckle being forward near a toe area of the boot and the other being to the rear, generally near the arch area of the boot,
- strap means connected to the footbed and passing through the adjustment buckles, for enabling tightening of the snowshoe binding snugly over a user's boot, both over the general toe area of the boot and the general arch area of the boot, with a single pull on an intermediate portion of the strap means, between the two buckles, and
- a flexible heel strap extending in a rearward loop on the binding, the heel strap comprising a continuation of the strap means, and the binding elements including strap guiding and positioning means extending from the one side of the arch area and supporting the heel strap through a portion of the strap loop so as to hold the heel strap in place when a user inserts a boot,
- whereby a single pull on said intermediate portion of the strap means is effective to tighten the strap means at the toe area and the heel area and also to tighten the heel strap.
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A snowshoe binding, comprising:
- a footbed for engagement against the bottom of a user's shoe or boot and adapted for securing to a snowshoe,
- a boot binding extending up from the footbed, the binding at one side having a shaped, flexible harness shell adapted to engage the shoe or boot at the side and at least partially over the top of the shoe or boot,
- strap means and buckle means connected to the footbed and to the flexible harness shell, for enabling tightening of the harness shell snugly over a user's boot, both over the toe area of the boot and the arch area of the boot, with a single pull on an intermediate, handle portion of the strap means which is effective to draw tension in end portions of the strap means, such tension being retained in the end portions by said buckle means located at spaced positions at either side of said intermediate, handle portion of the strap means, and
- a flexible heel strap extending in a rearward loop on the binding, the heel strap comprising a continuation of the strap means and the binding elements including a strap guide where the strap is connected to the footbed at one side of the arch area, and including strap guiding and positioning means extending from an opposite of the arch area and supporting the heel strap through a portion of the strap loop so as to hold the heel strap in place when a user inserts a boot,
- whereby a single pull on said intermediate portion of the strap means as effective to tighten the strap means at the toe area and the heel area and also to tighten the heel strap.
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A snowshoe binding, comprising:
- a footbed for engagement against the bottom of a user's shoe or boot and adapted for securing to a snowshoe,
- a boot binding extending up from the footbed, the binding at one side having a shaped, flexible harness shell adapted to engage the shoe or boot at the side and at least partially over the top of the shoe or boot,
- a first flexible strap connected to an opposite side of the footbed, and extending toward the harness shell and being engaged in and passing through an adjustable locking buckle connected to the flexible harness shell,
- a second flexible strap connected at said opposite side to the footbed and crossing to a position generally above the arch area to a second adjustable locking buckle connected to the flexible harness shell, and
- a heel strap extending in a generally horizontal loop, back from the boot binding, the heel strap being fixed to the boot binding at the one side and held by a slide guide on the boot binding at the opposite side, the heel strap at said opposite side being secured to the second flexible strap,
- whereby tightening of the second flexible strap generally over the arch area is effective simultaneously to tighten the heel strap.
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