Land vehicles – Skates – Shoe attaching means
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-24
2010-11-02
Vanaman, Frank B (Department: 3618)
Land vehicles
Skates
Shoe attaching means
C280S603000, C280S014260
Reexamination Certificate
active
07823905
ABSTRACT:
Improved boot bindings for backcountry splitboarding are disclosed. Each of a pair of soft-boot bindings has an integral boot binding lower that conjoins the two halves of a splitboard without the additional weight or height of an adaptor mounting plate and extra fasteners. Attached to the integral boot binding lower are the elements of a boot binding upper. The integral boot binding lower, in combination with upper boot bindings, provides improved torsional stiffness for splitboard riding. The integral boot binding lower further includes a toe pivot for free heel ski touring. The boot bindings can be readily detached from the ski touring position and reattached to the snowboard riding position, or vice versa, as is advantageous in backcountry touring and riding.
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Nitro USA Snowboards Boardline 1993-1994 (Nitro USA, Seattle WA) (4 pages) p. 2 see photo, splitboard with ski-mode and snowboard-mode mounting assemblies, including slidably engageable conjoining bindings (see “instructions for Use” attached below).
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Commercial Product Description—Early splitboard distributed circa 1991-1993 by Nitro USA of Seattle WA; with Fritschi AT bindings and interface. Annotated photographs 1-10. Author: K Karel Lambert.
Lambert K. Karel
Lambert Patent Services Group
Vanaman Frank B
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