Ski brake

A brake for a ski adapted to be actuated by a skiboot, said brake comprising:

• a holder secured to said ski and defining a pair of passages parallel to the upper surface of said ski;
• a resiliently deformable wire having a central bight portion defining a plane, a pair of pivot portions respectively received in said passages and bent inwardly toward each other out of said plane from said bight portion, a pair of connecting portions bent away from said pivot portions and extending outwardly away from each other toward the sides of said ski, and a pair of leg portions extending generally parallel to each other from said connecting portions and lying out of said plane, said passages including an inner edge shaped to contact and guide said pivot portion to resiliently deform said wire and cause said leg portions to swing inwardly and upwardly upon depression of said bight portion by said skiboot, the resilient deformation of said wire causing the leg portions to swing outwardly and downwardly upon release of the bight portion by said skiboot;
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• a braking element on each of said leg portions, said holder being formed with a pair of slots and each constituting one of said passages, each passage tapering toward the respective ski edge and has at its outer end a cross-sectional area slightly greater than the cross-sectional area of said wire at said end.