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US 5,624,291 AGranted
Wake board bindings
OwnerDarryl W. McClaskeyinventor
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Abstract
A lightweight wake board binding having a thin bottom support plate. A heel receptacle and a top-of-the-foot retainer strap are secured to the top surface of the bottom support plate by a left and a right side plate stiffener member that substantially eliminates the flex in the bottom support plate produced by the person riding the wake board. The plate stiffeners have upstanding flanges adjacent their inner edges having elongated slots therein that receive a fastening strap for tightly securing the binding to the wearer's foot.
Claims12
A wake board binding comprising:
- a bottom support plate having a front end, a rear end, a left edge, a right edge, a top surface, a bottom surface, a predetermined thickness T1;
- a first row of apertures extending from front to rear along said left edge, a second row of apertures extending from front to rear along said right edge;
- a heel receptacle having a front end, a rear end, a top edge, a bottom edge, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent its bottom edge;
- said flange having a plurality of apertures for securing said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- a transversely extending elongated top-of-the-foot retainer strap having a left end, a right end, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent said left end and said right end;
- said flanges each having a plurality of apertures for securing said top-of-the-foot retaining strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
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- plate stiffener means for clamping the respective left and right end flanges of said top-of-the-foot retainer strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- said plate stiffener means also clamping the left and right flanges of said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- said plate stiffener means comprising an elongated left side plate stiffener member and an elongated right side plate stiffener member;
- said plate stiffener members each having a front end, a rear end, an inner edge, an outer edge, and a width W1;
- a plurality of apertures are formed along the length of said plate stiffener members and they align with said apertures in the respective flanges of said heel receptacle and said top-of-the-foot retainer strap;
- said plate stiffener members each have an upstanding flange along their inner edges adjacent their front end;
- said upstanding flanges each have an elongated slot for receiving a fastening strap.
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A wake board binding comprising:
- a bottom support plate having a front end, a rear end, a left edge, a right edge, a top surface, a bottom surface, a predetermined thickness T1;
- a first row of apertures extending from front to rear along said left edge, a second row of apertures extending from front to rear along said right edge;
- said bottom support plate has a U-shaped configuration having a pair of laterally spaced leg portions connected together by a rear transverse portion;
- a heel receptacle having a front end, a rear end, a top edge, a bottom edge, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent its bottom edge;
- said flange having a plurality of apertures for securing said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- a transversely extending elongated top-of-the-foot retainer strap having a left end, a right end, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent said left end and said right end;
- said flanges each having a plurality of apertures for securing said top-of-the-foot retaining strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
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- plate stiffener means for clamping the respective left and right end flanges of said top-of-the-foot retainer strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- said plate stiffener means also clamping the left and right flanges of said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate.
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A wake board binding comprising:
- a bottom support plate having a front end, a rear end, a left edge, a right edge, a top surface, a bottom surface, a predetermined thickness T1;
- a first row of apertures extending from front to rear along said left edge, a second row of apertures extending from front to rear along said right edge;
- a heel receptacle having a front end, a rear end, a top edge, a bottom edge, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent its bottom edge;
- said flange having a plurality of apertures for securing said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- a transversely extending elongated top-of-the-foot retainer strap having a left end, a right end, a front end, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent said left end and said right end;
- said flanges each having a plurality of apertures for securing said top-of-the-foot retaining strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
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- plate stiffener means for clamping the respective left and right end flanges of said top-of-the-foot retainer strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- said plate stiffener means also clamping the left and right flanges of said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- said plate stiffener means comprising an elongated unitary left side plate stiffener member and an elongated unitary right side plate stiffener member;
- said two plate stiffener members each having a front end, a rear end, an inner edge, an outer edge, and they extend continuously from the front end of said top-of-the-foot retainer strap to the rear end of said heel receptacle;
- a plurality of apertures are formed along the length of said plate stiffener members and they align with said apertures in the respective flanges of said heel receptacle and said top-of-the-the foot retainer strap.
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A wake board binding comprising:
- a bottom support plate having a front end, a rear end, a left edge, a right edge, a top surface, a bottom surface, a predetermined thickness T1;
- said bottom support plate having a U-shaped configuration formed with a central cutout portion between left and right leg portions and a rear transverse portion;
- an outer row of apertures extending from front to rear along said left edge and said right edge, an inner row of apertures extending from front to rear along said left and right edges;
- the apertures of said respective outer rows of apertures being longitudinally offset from their respective inner rows to form a double offset hole pattern that allows the binding to be moved forwardly and rearwardly depending upon the length of a rider's foot;
- the apertures of the respective outer and inner rows allow the binding to also be angularly rotated to various fixed angular positions with respect to the sides of a wake board;
- a heel receptacle having a front end, a rear end, a top edge, a bottom edge, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent its bottom edge;
- said flange having a plurality of apertures for securing said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- a transversely extending elongated top-of-the-foot retainer strap having a left end, a right end, and an outwardly extending flange adjacent said left end and said right end;
- said flanges each having a plurality of apertures for securing said top-of-the-foot retaining strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
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- plate stiffener means for clamping the respective left and right end flanges of said top-of-the-foot retainer strap to the top surface of said bottom support plate;
- said plate stiffener means also clamping the left and right flanges of said heel receptacle to the top surface of said bottom support plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.