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US 7,984,572 B2Granted
Snow shoes of the type whose webbing includes a stretched fabric in the interior of a frame
AssigneeTSL Sport Equipment
InventorPhilippe Gallay
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Abstract
A snowshoe (1) whose webbing includes a flexible wall (4) maintained in tension inside a framework (2) by portions of the flexible mounting wall which define flexible mounting projections. Supplemental protection parts (8) are disposed surrounding the mounting projections to protect them from wear and impact.
Claims8
A snowshoe comprising:
- webbing including a flexible wall made of fabric, maintained in tension inside a peripheral framework by flexible mounting wall portions defining fabric mounting feet, said fabric mounting feet being configured to extend around the peripheral framework at least one a top and at sides;
- supplemental protection parts disposed on a level of the fabric mounting feet;
- wherein the supplemental protection parts each have a form of a non-closed tubular section, with a cylindrical wall portion defining a protection body from which an upper mounting wall and a lower mounting wall extend substantially tangentially;
- the upper and lower mounting walls each including a hole for receiving a mounting rivet;
- and
- wherein a lower portion of the cylindrical wall portion includes at least one downward protection part projection to improve gripping qualities of the snowshoe, each supplemental protection part extending around one of the fabric mounting feet and the peripheral framework.
3 more elements
A snowshoe comprising:
- a peripheral frame;
- a flexible fabric wall held in tension on the peripheral frame by integral flexible fabric mounting extensions which fold around the peripheral frame;
- a plurality of protection parts, each protection part including:
- a non-closed tubular section which extends around one of the flexible fabric mounting extensions and the peripheral frame,
- a pair of mounting legs extending integrally from the non-closed tubular section, a first mounting leg of the pair extending above the flexible fabric wall and a second mounting leg of the pair extending below the flexible fabric wall;
- a plurality of fasteners, each fastener extending through the flexible fabric wall and at least one of the mounting legs of one of the protection parts to hold the flexible fabric wall to the peripheral frame;
- and
- wherein the non-closed tubular section of at least one of the protection parts includes at least one downward projection to improve grip.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.