Snowshoe binding with flexible footbed
AssigneeK2 Snowshoes, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Emerson, Rudy Samuels
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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 direction, as steps are taken by the user.
Claims9
In a snowshoe boot binding, a flexible footbed with flexibility for bending at the metatarsal phalangeal joint of a user's foot, the footbed being, generally at the metatarsal phalangeal joint location, flexibly compliant and bendable in the pitch direction to allow the user's boot and metatarsal phalangeal joint of the foot to bend as steps are taken, and including, at an aft end of the footbed generally in an arch region of the boot, a means for holding the boot down to the footbed.
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