Children's Ski Boot With Improved Walking Function
AssigneeMarker Deutschland GmbH
InventorMarkus Krumbeck
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Abstract
A ski boot, comprising a ski boot shell and a ski boot sole, wherein the ski boot sole comprises a front end of the ski boot sole, a rear end of the ski boot sole, a lower side of the sole and a free upper side of the sole via which the ski boot sole protrudes forwards, backwards and/or laterally beyond the ski boot shell, wherein the lower side of the sole comprises a first bearing region for placing upright on a bearing plate of a ski binding, and a second bearing region for walking without skis, wherein a width of the ski boot sole in the second bearing region is larger than a width of the ski boot sole in the first bearing region.
Claims21
A ski boot, comprising a ski boot shell and a ski boot sole, wherein the ski boot sole comprises a front end of the ski boot sole, a rear end of the ski boot sole, a lower side of the sole and a free upper side of the sole via which the ski boot sole protrudes forwards and/or backwards and/or laterally beyond the ski boot shell, wherein:
- (a) the lower side of the sole comprises a first bearing region for placing upright on a bearing plate of a ski binding, and a second bearing region for walking without skis;
- (b) the first bearing region is arranged in front of the second bearing region, which lies below the ball of the foot of a wearer of the ski boot, in the longitudinal direction of the ski boot;
- (c) the second bearing region is curved convexly downwards in the longitudinal direction on the lower side of the sole in order to facilitate a rolling-off movement when walking without skis;
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- (d) a width of the ski boot sole in the second bearing region is larger than a width of the ski boot sole in the first bearing region.
The ski boot according to the preceding claim, wherein the first material has a Shore D hardness of at least 45, and/or the second material has a Shore A hardness of at least 70 and at most 80.
The ski boot according to the preceding claim, wherein when a ski boot is placed on a base plane, a vertical distance c which the contact point or contact line of the first bearing region exhibits from the free upper side of the front end of the sole measures 17±1.5 mm.
The ski boot according to the preceding claim, wherein the front sole pad comprises the first bearing region and the second bearing region.
A ski boot, comprising a ski boot shell and a ski boot sole, wherein the ski boot sole comprises a portion for the toes and ball of the foot, a heel portion, a front end of the sole, a rear end of the sole, a lower side of the sole and a free upper side of the sole which protrudes forwards and/or backwards and/or laterally beyond the ski boot shell, wherein
- (a) the portion for the toes and ball of the foot on the lower side of the sole comprises a first bearing region for placing upright on a bearing plate of a ski binding and, below the ball of the foot of a wearer of the ski boot, a second bearing region for walking without skis;
- (b) the first bearing region is arranged in front of the second bearing region in the longitudinal direction of the ski boot;
- (c) the second bearing region is curved convexly downwards in the longitudinal direction on the lower side of the sole in order to facilitate a rolling-off movement when walking without skis;
- (d) the heel portion features a walking area, for contact with the substrate when walking without skis, and a heel contact area, for placing upright on a rear bearing area of the ski binding, on the lower side of the sole;
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- (e) a material which forms the heel contact area exhibits a greater hardness, measured as a Shore hardness, than a material which forms the walking area.
The ski boot according to the preceding claim, wherein the first bearing region on the lower side of the sole comprises a contact area for contact with the bearing plate of the ski binding;
- the second bearing region on the lower side of the sole comprises a contact area for rolling-off contact with the substrate when walking without skis;
- a first material forms the contact area of the first bearing region;
- a second material forms the contact area of the second bearing region;
- and the first material exhibits a greater hardness, measured as a Shore hardness, than the second material.
The ski boot according to the preceding claim, wherein a rear end of the left-hand heel contact partial area and/or a rear end of the right-hand heel contact partial area exhibits a distance x4 of at most 30 mm from the rear end of the sole in the longitudinal direction of the ski boot.
A sole pad for a children's ski boot, wherein the sole pad can be connected to a front region of the children's ski boot, and wherein a lower side of the sole pad comprises a first bearing region for placing upright on a bearing plate of a ski binding, and a second bearing region for walking in the children's ski boot without skis,
- wherein a width of the sole pad is larger in the second bearing region than a width of the sole pad in the first bearing region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.