Abstract:
A heel- or sole holder arranged at a sole or release plate of a ski binding, comprising a heel holddown guided in a guide means to be movable essentially parallel to the plane of the plate. The heel holddown can be rearwardly displaced out of an operating position which it has assumed under the action of spring force, against such spring force. The heel holddown possesses at one end a deflection or diverting surface which, in the operating position of the heel holddown, overlaps or extends over the ski boot-support surface of the sole or release plate and extends in the direction of the spring force towards the sole or release plate. The guide means is structured to slope or descend towards the sole or release plate in the direction of the spring force.Further, the sole or release plate equipped with such heel holder has the latter connected with the sole or release plate by means of anchoring elements, for instance anchoring pins, engaging into transverse bores of the plate and secured in the axial direction thereof.
Abstract:
A safety ski binding wherein the ski boot is clamped between an automatic heel portion of the binding and a pivotal jaw held in its operable position by spring force. The jaw is provided with a plate which engages beneath the sole of the ski boot and is fastened to the ski by means of a spring-loaded locking element arranged forwardly thereof and a pivot bearing engaging the plate.
Abstract:
A releasable safety ski binding holding a release plate, having a safety release device secured to the ski for releasably holding the release plate to the ski. A heel holder is longitudinally non-adjustably mounted on the rear of the release plate, and a toe holder is adjustably disposed on the front of the release plate to hold different size ski boots without affecting the safety release holding of the binding. In another embodiment, the safety ski binding has a lateral and vertical safety release member only adjacent one end of the release plate, the other end of the release plate defining a vertical release pivot fulcrum. The release plate is pivotally mounted on the ski intermediate its ends, whereby different lateral and vertical release moments exist.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a release type ski binding comprising a heel retainer means and a toe retainer means between which a release plate or a ski boot sole extends, the toe retainer means having connected thereto a foot plate extending under the boot sole at least as far as the toe ball portion of the ski boot sole and, when a release movement sidewardly off the running position against the force of a sideways release means provided on the ski takes place, the release plate or the ski boot sole, respectively, being first held against forward movement by a support means and therefore being only pivotable sideward about a pivot point disposed in the heel area, and the foot plate being adapted to slide away from the heel retainer means in the longitudinal direction of the ski when an elastic range has been exceeded, and further comprising a friction-reducing rest means for the pivot motion. Under particular tumbling conditions different reaction forces occur in the ball area of the ski boot and impede the release of the ski boot. Different oriented reaction forces are prevented by the fact that exclusively the foot plate is directly supported by the rest means with a view to the pivoting and sliding motions.
Abstract:
A safety binding for a ski includes a jaw for holding the sole of a ski boot, the jaw being movable at least transversely with respect to the axis of the ski. The jaw is held in its normal position by an elastic member which returns it into its normal position after transverse movement. The jaw is associated with a pedal positioned under the end of the sole of the ski boot. This pedal includes a support member movable with respect to the ski as well as to the jaw.
Abstract:
A safety ski binding embodying a release plate which can be secured to the ski boot, the release plate cooperating at its front and rear with resiliently yielding locking elements rendering possible release of the ski boot and release plate both upwardly and laterally. The release plate is rotatably or pivotably mounted at the ski at a point intermediate the toe and heel of the ski boot heel by means of a pivot bearing enabling raising of the release plate away from the ski. The locking elements oppose lateral release of the release plate either only at the front or at the rear, yet oppose release of the release plate upwardly away from the ski both at the front and rear.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a safety ski binding toe mechanism comprising a skid plate underlying the forward end of the ski boot sole. According to the invention, the skid plate, or the pivotable and longitudinally shiftable sole retainer, respectively, is provided with keying means preventing the skid plate from twisting relative to the ski boot sole at least within the elastic yield limits of the toe mechanism. The keying means may comprise a pair of guide jaws receiving the ski boot sole therebetween, or may be constituted by stop portions or projections on the upper surface of the skid plate cooperating with complementary counter stops or engagement means of the ski boot sole.
Abstract:
A sole-support plate for a release ski binding is supported on the upper side of a ski by a pivot bearing and cooperates with a resilient restoring arrangement. The restoring arrangement includes an opening provided in the sole-support plate, which plate is made of an elastic material, the opening weakening the sole-support plate in the area of the pivot bearing so that it can be swung laterally through elastic deformation of the region having the opening and will thereafter return automatically to its original position through the resilience of this region.
Abstract:
On the vehicle are mounted an actuation member, a force transmission unit and a drive element. Preferably, the actuation member is comprised of two levers, each of them being fixed to a metal cable each connected to a chain, the two chains actuating the wheels of a gear-box. The latter acts on the drive element which sets in motion the vehicle. A sliding seat enables to transmit the maximum of muscular power to both levers. One or a plurality of free wheels transform the reciprocating motion of the levers into a unidirectional motion for the drive element. With this vehicle, it is possible to optimally transform the muscular energy into driving power.
Abstract:
A safety ski binding having an automatic heel release binding which releases when the skier suffers a frontal fall and a front jaw or front release binding which releases when the skier experiences a torsional fall. The automatic heel release binding is secured to the rear end of a release plate connected by means of a pivot pin with the ski and freely pivotable to both sides. The front jaw is anchored in spaced relationship forwardly of the release plate at the ski. At the region of its front end the release plate is provided with two, oppositely situated, substantially L-shaped entrainment elements, attached by one leg to be pivotable about a related shaft at the release plate. In the normal skiing position of the release plate the entrainment elements are retained in their effectual position, by bearing upon the ski, and the other leg of each entrainment element protrudes upwardly from the release plate and bears snugly at the ski boot which has been placed into the safety ski binding. As soon as during such rocking movement an entrainment element no longer bears upon the ski, then it is tilted over downwardly into its release position, so that the ski boot is freed and can detach from the release plate. Thereafter, by virtue of the action of resilient or spring rods, biased during the rocking of the release plate, the latter is again pivoted back towards its normal skiing position, with the result that the previously tilted over entrainment element again is moved back into its effectual position.