Length-adjustable toy ski
OwnerSalvatore Corbisieroinventor
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Abstract
A length-adjustable short ski for mounting on a boot. The ski has a sole-receiving portion and a heel-receiving portion. Each of these portions has a platform, the heel platform overlapping the sole platform, and the platforms are interconnected by tongue-and-groove joints allowing their relative sliding displacement and holding the portions in assembled condition, the grooves and tongues projecting downwardly from the platforms. Once the sole and heel portions have been set to the desired length of the ski, they are locked together. For this purpose, the sole end of the heel platform has a resilient tongue with a pair of ribs projecting downwardly and locking into two of a plurality of locking notches formed in the underlying sole platform.
Claims12
A length-adjustable short ski for mounting on a boot, said ski comprising:
- a front sole-receiving portion having a ground-engaging sole platform and a rear heel-receiving portion having a ground-engaging heel platform overlapping said sole platform;
- means extending lengthwise of and interconnecting said portions to hold the said portions in assembled condition and for relative sliding displacement thereof for adjusting the length of said ski to an adjusted length corresponding to said boot for mounting said ski on said boot, said interconnecting means consisting of elongated tongue-and-groove joints projecting downwardly from said sole and heel platform, at least some of said joints being formed by tongue and grooves of essentially dovetail cross configuration,
- means releasably locking said portions in said adjusted length;
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- means for attaching said portion to said boot, whereby the ski presents a substantially unbroken ground-engaging platform extending the length of the ski in all adjusted lengths.
A ski as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:
- a member for supporting the back of said boot and means mounting one end of said support member to the rear end of said sole platform for pivotal movement of said member about a horizontal axis extending across said sole support end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.