Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Overshoes
Patent
1980-11-10
1982-10-12
Scanlan, Jr., Richard J.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Overshoes
36 62, A43B 310
Patent
active
043531725
ABSTRACT:
A crampon binding for convenient installation on mountaineers' crampons comprises a cooperative assembly of various sizes of neoprene elongated extensioners each especially contoured and equipped with centerline openings, to be adjustable folded over longitudinally, to extend from the sides of mountaineers' boots adjacent the sole edges up alongside the boot to the lacing eyelets or lacing hooks, to serve as tension members carrying the binding loads. When installed they are folded over conventional securement rings already secured to conventional small uprights spaced about coventional crampons. Their adjustable folded over longitudinal length is maintained upon installing aluminum screw posts, with their respective aluminum locking washer, through their selected aligned centerline openings. The contour of these extensioners provides progressively wider portions to contact the mountaineer's boot to more uniformly distribute the compression binding loads into the boot. At their upper ends aluminum dee rings are secured to the neoprene extensioners by using steel clips, neoprene clip backers or tabs, aluminum rivets, and aluminum backing washers. At least one toe located neoprene extensioner is optionally, without the installation of a dee ring, instead being threadedly secured to the end of a continuous webbed lacing, and at least one heel located neoprene extensioner is optionally, without the installation of a dee ring, instead receiving a steel alligator buckle, which is secured by using a neoprene folded over buckle tab, aluminum rivets, and aluminum backing washers. Preferably a nylon like fabric webbed lacing completes the cooperative assembly and is optionally threadably secured to a toe located neoprene extensioner and is long enough to be laced: diagonally across to a neoprene extensioner positioned at the ball of the foot locale along the boot: back directly across the boot to the opposite neoprene extensioner positoned at the ball of the foot locale; then diagonally forward to the other neoprene extensioner at the toe locale; thereafter diagonally back to the upper end of the neoprene extensioner secured at the heel locale; and then directly across the boot to be secured at the optionally installed alligator buckle on the upper end of the other neoprene extensioner secured, at the heel locale of the mountaineers' boot, to the mountaineers' conventional crampon.
Mattern Jr. Roy E.
Scanlan, Jr. Richard J.
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