Land vehicles – Ski or skate appliance or attachment – Ski pole
Patent
1998-12-28
2000-06-06
Mar, Michael
Land vehicles
Ski or skate appliance or attachment
Ski pole
16112, 135 65, 403166, A63C 1122
Patent
active
060709073
ABSTRACT:
An athletic pole adapted for minimizing injuries to the hand and wrist of the user in the event of an accident. The pole includes a handle having an enlarged handle base, a shaft extending from the handle and including a proximal end adjacent the handle, a distal end, and an enlarged shaft base on the proximal end that normally engages the handle base. The pole also includes an attachment device for attaching the handle to the shaft and a biasing device exerting sufficient tension on the attachment device for biasing the attachment device to maintain the handle base and the shaft base in a mating, coaxial position during normal use. The periphery of the handle base and the periphery of the shaft base collectively form a fulcrum point for permitting controlled, tensioned articulation of the handle relative to the shaft. Such articulation results when a predetermined bending force is applied to the pole that is sufficient to overcome the tension of the biasing device on the attachment device.
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Bujold Edward J.
Wise Eugene P.
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