Element assembly for retaining shoes or boots on a gliding board
AssigneeSalomon S.A.
InventorsChristian Challande, Pierre Desarmaux, Hans Horn
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to an assembly of two retention elements of two boots of a skier on two skis. Each retention element has a retention jaw, a return spring of the jaw, a linkage for transmission of movement between the retention jaw and the spring, an adjustment mechanism acting on the transmission linkage to modify in a differential manner the release threshold of the jaw depending upon which it displaces from one side or the other with respect to its aligned position, a manipulation element adapted to be activated from the other retention element and to control the adjustment mechanism.
Claims14
An assembly of two retention elements for retaining two boots of a skier on two skis, the two skis adapted to be interchangeably attached to either leg of a skier, each retention element comprising:
- a retention jaw adapted to retain one end of the boot, the jaw having a boot engaging portion movable laterally at least in a horizontal plane between inward and outward directions relative to a central position where the boot engaging portion is aligned with a longitudinal median plane defined by the ski, the inward direction, with respect to either of the two retention elements, being a direction toward the other of the two retention elements and the outward direction being a direction away from the other of the two retention elements;
- a spring for returning the jaw to its aligned position;
- a linkage for transmission of movement between the retention jaw and the spring which compresses the spring upon lateral movement of the boot engaging portion from one side or the other of its aligned position, and which sends back to the Jaw an elastic return force for biasing the boot engaging portion towards its aligned position;
- the jaw and the spring being adapted to free the end of the boot in response to a predetermined release threshold force corresponding to a predetermined amplitude of displacement of the Jaw and to a predetermined extent of compression of the spring;
- an adjustment mechanism acting on the transmission linkage to modify in a differential manner inward and outward release threshold forces of the jaw corresponding to inward and outward directions of movement respectively of the boot engaging portion;
- a manipulation element adapted to automatically interact with a corresponding manipulation element on the other retention element to control the adjustment mechanism of each retention element for reducing one of the inward and outward threshold forces and increasing the other one of the inward and outward threshold forces on the two retention elements when the skis are interchanged.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.