Ski boot with flexible interconnected top and bottom portions
OwnerCarlo Garbuioinventor
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Abstract
A ski boot, integrally molded from polymeric material, has a base or bottom portion and a leg or top portion interconnected at the heel by a flexible link which is corrugated and therefore extensible over the major part of its width. Lateral flaps on the leg and on the base carry coating snap fasteners which interengage on a horizontal pivotal axis in the region of the ankle, the extensible link being substantially tangent to an imaginary circle centered on that axis.
Claims5
A ski boot comprising an integral body of polymeric sheet material including a bottom portion with a toe end and a heel end and further including a top portion connected with said bottom portion at said heel end by a pair of substantially inextensible lateral bridges and by a vertically extensible part flanked by said bridges, said top portion being provided with a pair of first lateral flaps extending forwardly from the region of said bridges, said bottom portion being provided with rearwardly extending second lateral flaps overlapped by said first flaps, said first and second flaps carrying mating fastener halves positioned on a horizontal axis in the region of the ankle upon mutual interengagement, said axis lying forwardly of said bridges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.