Land vehicles – Skates – Shoe attaching means
Patent
1998-04-01
2000-04-18
Mai, Lanna
Land vehicles
Skates
Shoe attaching means
280634, 280636, A63C 9081
Patent
active
060505915
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The subject of the present invention is a longitudinally adjustable mounting for a ski binding which comprises a runner, fastened to the ski and having a row of notches parallel to the axis of the runner, and a plate slideably mounted on the runner and bearing a latch engaged, under the action of a spring, in at least one notch of the runner so as to immobilize the plate on the runner, this plate being provided with a releasing lever mounted so as to pivot, under the plate, about a pin perpendicular to the plate and passing through the plate via an aperture so as to have one end accessible for operating the lever.
Such mountings are used for top-of-the-range demonstration skis and skis for hiring. For top-of-the-range skis, it is important that the middle of the boot occupies a defined position on the ski, whatever the size of the boot. For this purpose, the front binding and the rear binding are both mounted adjustably and are both moved when there is a change of boot size. In such a mounting, snow and dirt may get in between the plate and the runner through the aperture provided for passage of the releasing lever. The ice which forms under the plate and the dirt may prevent adjustment.
The object of the invention is to remedy this drawback.
For this purpose, the mounting is such that, in the plate-lever assembly, at least one of these components is provided with a means for closing off said aperture, which closes off, at least approximately, said aperture at least in the position of use of the binding.
In principle, it is not necessary to close off the aperture in the released position, given that the releasing lever occupies this position only for short periods and under conditions such that the risk of snow or dirt getting in is extremely low.
The closure means may consist of a component which moves with the releasing lever or of a fixed component, such as one or two flexible lips or a brush .
The appended drawing illustrates, by way of example, two embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates a mounting, seen from above, with the plate partially cut away so as to show the releasing lever.
FIG. 2 is an end view of the same mounting in the direction A.
FIG. 3 illustrates an alternative form of the first embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a partial view, in vertical section, of a second embodiment.
FIG. 5 illustrates an alternative form of this second embodiment.
FIGS. 6A-6C are section views showing various closure devices for the window from the vantage points such as that shown by A--A of FIG. 1.
The mounting illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 comprises, fastened to a ski, a runner 1 on which a plate 2 is mounted, said plate being able to move along the runner 1 and being able to be locked on this runner by means of a latch 3 engaged in notches 4 of the runner 1 under the effect of a spring 5. The plate 2 can be released by means of a releasing lever 6 which is pivoted under the plate 2 about a pin 7. The lever 6 is furthermore provided with an actuating rod 8 which passes through a transverse wall 9 of the plate 2 via an aperture 10, allowing the rod 8 to move. The wall 9 is in the form of a circular arc, centered on the pin 7. Immediately behind the wall 9, the lever 6 has a circularly arcuate part 11 whose curvature matches the internal curvature of the wall 9 and extends on each side of the rod 8. In the rest position, this part 11 obstructs part of the aperture 10. The lever 6 furthermore has a flexible arm 12 of undulating shape terminating in a part 13 which curls round toward the part 11 of the lever and which, in the rest position, bears, on the one hand, against the end of the aperture 10 and, on the other hand, against the end of the part 11, entering the aperture 10 so as to obstruct that part of the aperture 10 which is not obstructed by the part 11 of the lever. The part 11 has a concavity 14 facing the terminal part 13 of the flexible arm.
When the lever is moved clockwise, in order to release the plate 2, the end 13 of the flexible arm 12 curls round in the concavity 14 of the lever, which then obstr
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Bardin Roland
Thevenet Michel
Ilan Ruth
Look Fixations S.A.
Mai Lanna
Moetteli John
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