Device for linking a sports equipment with a shoe
AssigneesSports Goods AG, Renato P. Ruede
InventorKlaus Walkhoff
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Abstract
The arrangement comprises a bottom part (1), which is mounted on the ski (3), and a top part (2), which can be fitted on the bottom part. The boot (4) can be connected to the top side (21) of the top part (2). The bottom part (1) comprises a base (13) which can be fastened on the body of the ski (3) and can be introduced into a correspondingly shaped central section (23) of the top part (2). In this central section (23), the base (13) is retained by means of a connecting devices (35). The central section of a flexible member (60) is retained between the base plate (10) and the body of the ski (3). This member (60) and the way it is secured on the ski are such that it acts as an automatically triggering brake.
Claims14
An arrangement for connecting a piece of sports equipment (3) to a boot (4), said arrangement comprising:
- means for a releasable connection between said sports equipment (3) and a sole (2) of the boot (4) wherein a space (30) is provided at a middle section (23) of the sole (2), the space (30) opening downwardly and having a substantially cylindrical shaped interior surface (54);
- a base (13) secured on the sports equipment (3), the base (13) having a substantially cylindrical shaped peripheral area, a diameter of the peripheral area corresponding to the diameter of an interior area (54) of the space (30), so that the base (13) fits into the space (30) and the boot (4) can rotate or pivot around an axis B of the base (13);
- depressions (16,17) made at two diametrically opposite locations on an outer surface of the base (13);
- connecting devices (35) provided at two diametrically opposite locations in the sole (2), so that the connecting devices (35) can respectively latch into the depressions (16,17);
- a free end portion of the base body (13) being rounded, and at least one sliding groove (75) running in a meridian direction of the rounded free end portion, wherein the sliding groove (75) ends in one of said depressions (16,17).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.