Safety ski binding
AssigneeTMC Corporation
InventorsKarl Stritzl, Henry Freisinger
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Abstract
A safety ski binding having a sole plate which is pivotally supported on a ski-fixed pivot pin in a horizontal plane, however, is secured against lifting off from the ski. The sole plate has a front jaw at its front end and a heel holder provided with a housing at its rear end. The heel holder has a sole holder which is pivotal upwardly about a transversely extending axle on the housing against the force of a pressure spring. The heel holder also carries a roller which is loaded by at least one further pressure spring on a control lever, with which roller is associated a cam surface arranged on a ski-fixed member. The pressure springs for controlling the vertical release and the ones for controlling the lateral release can thereby either be arranged among one another or nested into one another.
Claims8
In a safety ski binding comprising a sole plate pivotally supported on a ski-fixed pivot pin in a horizontal plane, however, is secured against lifting off from the ski, said sole plate having a front jaw at its front end and a heel holder provided with a housing at its rear end, said heel holder having a sole holder pivotally supported on said housing which can be pivoted upwardly about a transversely extending axle against the force of a first pressure spring provided on said housing and which carries a roller loaded by at least one further pressure spring on a control lever, with which roller is associated a cam surface arranged on a ski-fixed member, the improvement comprising wherein said control lever has an opening therethrough for facilitating passage of a nose of a piston loaded by said first pressure spring, which piston engages exclusively only one locking lever for yieldingly resisting elevational release of said sole holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.