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US 5,392,536 AGranted
Alpine ski boot having a foot retention apparatus
AssigneeSalomon S.A.
InventorsClaude Perrissoud, Serge Lagier
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Abstract
The invention relates to an alpine ski boot provided with a foot retention apparatus which cooperates with at least one movable portion of said ski boot adapted to be applied against the front upper zone of the foot by means of a traction element directed obliquely towards the heel of the boot. The boot is characterized in that it comprises an adjustment means for adjusting the obliqueness of the linkage with respect to the movable portion of the boot in correspondence with the front upper zone of the foot. This adjustment means has a plurality of conduits for guiding linkage 12 defining, respectively, a different obliqueness than the linkage, itself causing a different direction of the resultant F of the pressure forces exerted on the foot.
Claims23
A ski boot comprising:
- a shell base;
- an upper, said upper comprising a rear spoiler journalled on the shell base, and a front cuff;
- closure means for the upper;
- a foot retention apparatus, said foot retention apparatus comprising (i) a traction element and (ii) means for tensioning said traction element, said means for tensioning being positioned on the rear spoiler;
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- means for enabling adjustment of the foot retention apparatus comprising means for maintaining said traction element in any of a plurality of discrete trajectories, in which said traction element extends between an area of the heel of the foot and an area of the top of the foot, said means for maintaining said traction element in any of a plurality of discrete trajectories comprising at least one guide for guiding a portion of said traction element, said at least one guide being positioned laterally on said shell base, wherein said means for maintaining said traction element in any of a plurality of discrete trajectories comprises a maintenance plate for maintaining said traction element in said at least one guide.
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A ski boot comprising:
- a shell base;
- an upper, said upper comprising a rear spoiler journalled on the shell base, and a front cuff;
- closure means for the upper;
- a foot retention apparatus, said foot retention apparatus comprising (i) a traction element and (ii) means for tensioning said traction element, said means for tensioning being positioned on the rear spoiler;
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- means for enabling adjustment of the foot retention apparatus comprising means for maintaining said traction element in any of a plurality of discrete trajectories, in which said traction element extends between an area of the heel of the foot and an area of the top of the foot, said means for maintaining said traction element in any of a plurality of discrete trajectories comprising at least one guide for said traction element, said at least one guide being positioned laterally on said shell base, wherein said means for maintaining said traction element in any of a plurality of discrete trajectories comprises a plurality of guides formed in a lateral wall of said shell base, and a cover plate removably affixed to said lateral wall of said shell base for retaining said traction element within one of said plurality of guides.
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A ski boot comprising:
- a shell base;
- an upper, said upper comprising a rear spoiler journalled on the shell base, and a front cuff;
- a foot retention apparatus, said foot retention apparatus comprising (i) a traction element, the traction element having a trajectory extending around a top portion of a foot and extending to a heel area of the foot, when the foot is inserted within the boot, and (ii) a tensioning apparatus for tensioning the traction element;
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- an apparatus for enabling adjustment of the trajectory of said traction element comprising at least one guide for said traction element, said at least one guide being positioned laterally of said shell base, wherein said traction element extends over the top of the foot exteriorly of the shell base, and wherein said at least one guide comprises means for adjusting said trajectory of said traction element to assume any of a plurality of predetermined fixed trajectories of said traction element at opposite lateral sides of said shell base.
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A ski boot comprising:
- a shell base;
- an upper, said upper comprising a rear spoiler journalled on the shell base, and a front cuff;
- closure means for the upper;
- a foot retention apparatus, said foot retention apparatus comprising (i) a tightening linkage having a portion extending in a downward and rearward trajectory at a lateral side of the foot, and (ii) means for tensioning said tightening linkage and for applying a retention force to the foot, said means for tensioning being positioned on the rear spoiler;
- a guide for guiding said tightening linkage in said predetermined trajectory extending downwardly and rearwardly on a lateral side of the foot;
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- means for facilitating a changing of said downward and reward trajectory of said tightening linkage at said lateral side of the foot to a different trajectory and for guiding said tightening linkage in said different trajectory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.