Ski carrier

A ski carrier, comprising two similar tong-like body members each having a handle at one end and a jaw at the opposite end, said members having an articulated connection on an axis located between the handle end and the jaw end, the handles being in abutting adjacency when in closed position and in angularly spaced relation when in open position, each of the jaws having a ski-receiving cavity and the cavities of said jaws facing each other to define a generally rectangular passage extending parallel to said axis and adapted to contain the combined central cross-section of a pair of skis in face-to-face relation when said body members are in closed position, each of said body members having a ski-pole-receiving cavity in the region between said axis and the handle thereof, each ski-pole cavity being open to receive lateral insertion of the central region of a ski pole when said body members are in open position, the ski-pole cavities being effectively closed by the adjacency of said body members when in closed position, and each body member including at the ski-pole-cavity region thereof a resilient pole-retaining latch formation to releasably retain an inserted ski-pole in the cavity.

A ski carrier, comprising two tong-like body members each having a handle at one end and a jaw at the opposite end, said members having an articulated connection on an axis located between the handle end and the jaw end, one of said members being of substantially lesser axial extent than the other of said members in both the region of said articulated connection and along the remainder of said one member to one of the ends thereof, the other of said members having a continuously framed opening at its region of articulated connection, the axial extent of said opening spanning the said lesser axial extent of said one member, and pin means engaging both members at both axial limits of said opening and providing said articulated connection with said one member received in the framed opening of said other member, each of the jaws having a ski-receiving cavity and the cavities of said jaws facing each other to define when in closed position a peripherally enclosed passage extending parallel to said axis and adapted to contain the combined central cross-section of a pair of skis in face-to-face relation when said body members are in closed position.

A ski carrier, comprising two tong-like body members each having a ski-receiving jaw cavity at one end and a ski-pole-receiving jaw cavity at the other end, said members having an articulated connection on an axis located between the respective ends and cavities, one of said body members having a continuously framed axially extensive opening at the region of said articulated connection, the region of said articulated connection of the other of said body members having between its articulation region and one of the ends of said other body member an axial extent which is of substantially the axial extent of the framed opening, the articulated connection of said body members being at both axial limits of the framed opening, the ski-pole cavities having mutually facing open sides which are open for removable insertion of a ski pole in each of them when said body members are in open position and which are effectively closed for ski-pole retention when said body members are in closed position, the ski-receiving cavities having mutually facing open sides which are open for removable insertion of the central region of a pair of skis face-to-face when said body members are in open position and which are effectively closed for ski retention when said body members are in closed position.