Land vehicles – Skates – Runner type
Patent
1997-04-30
1999-10-26
Mai, Lanna
Land vehicles
Skates
Runner type
280633, 280 142, A63C 503, A63C 900
Patent
active
059714190
ABSTRACT:
A rotational boot binding for mounting on a free style snowboard. The binding allows the user of the snowboard to wear hard shell boots and while boarding rotate both feet in a vertical plane for shifting his or her weight to the toe or the heel of the board. The binding includes a base plate having a plurality of holes therein for attaching and adjusting the base plate at an angle from 30 to 120 degrees to an axis along a length of the snowboard and centered thereon. The base plate is attached to a foot plate by a horizontal pivot pin. The pivot pin allows the foot plate to rotate on the base plate in a vertical plane thereby allowing a shift of weight to the toe or to the heel of the snow board and thus control the movement of the snowboard. The binding includes a toe base plate, a toe foot plate, a heel base plate and a heel foot plate. By having separate toe plates and heel plates, the binding can be adjusted on the snowboard for a wide range of different lengths of boot. A pair of the subject bindings for the front foot and the rear foot are mounted on the snowboard for different types of foot stances such as a duck foot stance. Also, the bindings can be used for a regular foot mounting with the left foot forward on the snowboard or a goofy foot mounting with the right foot forward on the snowboard.
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Avery Bridget
Crabtree Edwin H.
Mai Lanna
Margolis Donald W.
Pizarro Ramon L.
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