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EP0389384A1
EP0389384A1 EP90420074A EP90420074A EP0389384A1 EP 0389384 A1 EP0389384 A1 EP 0389384A1 EP 90420074 A EP90420074 A EP 90420074A EP 90420074 A EP90420074 A EP 90420074A EP 0389384 A1 EP0389384 A1 EP 0389384A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
    • A43B5/04—Ski or like boots
    • A43B5/0427—Ski or like boots characterised by type or construction details
    • A43B5/0468—Adjustment of the angle of the boot to the ski
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
    • A43B5/04—Ski or like boots
    • A43B5/0415—Accessories
    • A43B5/0417—Accessories for soles or associated with soles of ski boots; for ski bindings
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
    • A43B5/04—Ski or like boots
    • A43B5/0415—Accessories
    • A43B5/0417—Accessories for soles or associated with soles of ski boots; for ski bindings
    • A43B5/0421—Accessories for soles or associated with soles of ski boots; for ski bindings located underneath the sole

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  • the present invention relates to alpine ski boots and their cooperation with the ski when they are retained on the latter using the bindings, and relates in particular to a device for transmitting the pressures of the foot which are exerted in the boot while skiing, on top of the ski.
  • Ski boots are known which are provided with means of cooperation with the upper of the ski, or even of subjection to the latter when the bindings are closed on the sole of said boots; we can just cite, by way of example, the shoe described in French Patent No. 2,407,681: in this type of construction, it is essentially the holding of the foot which is sought simultaneously with the closing of the rear binding on the heel of the shoe; for this purpose, a movable part is provided which projects under the sole at rest and which disappears in the latter under the effort of locking the binding. This movable part is arranged in correspondence with the support plate of the binding, that is to say in the area of the heel, and actuates a device for holding the foot.
  • the boot object of the invention aims to modify and / or control the behavior of skis during skiing practice by means of a device for transmitting the pressures of the foot in the boot on the top of the ski in a central zone situated approximately between the bindings of the boot on said ski.
  • the ski boot consisting of: - a shell bottom provided with a walking sole and surmounted by a rod, - a rigid insole movable vertically relative to the bottom of the hull bottom, - and closing and holding means on the foot, is characterized in that it comprises a device for transmitting the pressures of the foot from the inside of the shoe to the outside thereof, said device comprising on the one hand, the internal sole which is mounted articulated to the only one of its ends relative to the bottom of the shell bottom and on the other hand, a support member, movable in substantially vertical translation disposed approximately in the middle of the length of the sole of the shoe, said member support cooperating with the underside of the inner sole and extending from the latter towards the outside of the shoe through an opening in the bottom of the shell of the latter to cooperate with a support zone located on the top of the ski.
  • this device for transmitting the pressures of the foot is intended to cooperate with the upper of the ski, approximately in the median zone of the "skate" of said ski situated between the shoe retaining fasteners on the latter.
  • the support member comes directly into contact with the top of the ski if necessary by means of a wedge located on the latter and is notably sufficiently projecting to be at least partially pushed back inside.
  • the boot when the latter is pressed down and retained on the ski by the bindings; thus, by being pushed back inside the shoe, the support member raises by a certain value the non-articulated end of the inner sole relative to the bottom of the shell bottom automatically placing the seat of the foot in the shoe in ski practice position.
  • the transmission device thus makes it possible to control the behavior of the ski in bending when pressing forwards or backwards, in particular by centralizing the pressures between the bindings.
  • the device plays the role of a damper vis-à-vis the ski during the rebound movement of the latter in counter-bending, that is to say in the direction of its camber.
  • the ski must then push the support member and the sole upwards, beyond the initial position for skiing.
  • the foot housed in the shoe is opposed by its volume and its constitution to the reentry movement of the support member in the shell, thereby limiting the amplitude of the counter-flexion.
  • the device therefore also makes it possible to control the behavior of the ski in counter-bending by partially opposing its deformation in the direction of its camber.
  • any one of the movable sole or of the support member is provided with a stop means limiting its possible movement upwards in the direction of the skier's foot at beyond a determined limit such as that, for example, corresponding to the optimum clamping position of the foot.
  • a stop means limiting its possible movement upwards in the direction of the skier's foot at beyond a determined limit such as that, for example, corresponding to the optimum clamping position of the foot.
  • Figures 1 to 3b show, in longitudinal section, a ski boot comprising a device for transmitting the pressures of the foot exerted in the boot on the top of a ski in accordance with the invention; in this first embodiment, the device is designed to operate more particularly during previous pressures of the foot on the inner sole as illustrated in FIG. 2 in particular.
  • Figure 3 shows the operation of the device during a counter-bending of the ski, while Figures 3a and 3b each illustrate a particular arrangement of the support member limited in its upward stroke.
  • Figures 4 and 5 show a ski boot provided with a device according to the invention arranged to operate more particularly during posterior pressures of the foot on the inner sole and comprising a means of abutment up the support member .
  • FIGS 6, 7 and 8 show construction details of the pressure transmission device.
  • Figures 9 to 11 show, seen in cross section A-A of the shoe of Figure 1, several variants of construction and cooperation of the device with the top of a ski.
  • FIGS. 12 and 12a show the adaptation of a means for neutralizing the operation of the device which is the subject of the invention, FIG. 12a schematically illustrating a detail of the insole seen according to F in FIG. 12.
  • the ski boot 1 is shown in the retaining position on a ski 2 by means of the front and rear bindings 3,4. In this position, the boot 1 rests on the front and rear support plates 5 and 6, in accordance with the usual mounting recommendations, and its sole 9 therefore presents itself slightly at a distance from the top 7 of the ski 2.
  • This boot 1 consists of '' a bottom shell 8, provided with the walking sole 9, a rod 10, an inner sole 11 rigid and movable vertically relative to the bottom 12 of the bottom shell, and means for closing and holding on the foot known per se, of the type with laces, hooks, buckles, etc. not shown.
  • this shoe is provided with a device 13 for transmitting the pressures of the foot from the inside of the shoe to the outside thereof;
  • this device 13 comprises on the one hand, the inner sole 11 which is articulated mounted 14 at its rear end 15 on the bottom 12 of the bottom of the shell 8 against which it comes to rest and, on the other hand, a support member 17 movable in translation, disposed substantially in the middle of the tread 9, in the direction of its length, between the toe and the heel of the latter.
  • This support member 17 extends from the inner sole 11 to the outside of the walking sole 9 of the shoe from which it projects.
  • the support member 17 has a determined height so as to project only into the height of the step 18 of the tread 9; thus, it does not come into contact with the ground when walking and can only bear on the top 7 of the self 2 by means of a wedge 19 attached to the latter and only when the shoe is in the position of retained on the ski.
  • the height of the shim 19 added to that of the support member 17 up to the inner sole 11 is greater than the height between the bottom 12 of the bottom of the shell 8 and the top 7 of ski 2; in this way, when the boot 1 is retained and pressed against the ski 2 by the fasteners 3,4, as illustrated in FIG.
  • the support member 17 is pushed back inside the boot, by the value of this difference in heights, and thereby raises the inner sole 11 determining at the same time the seat of the foot in the boot in the ski practice position. Furthermore, it follows from such a construction that the skier can use these ski boots for walking without his feet being subjected to compressions at each step because the support member 17 is set back from the plane 20 of the walking surface of the sole 9 even when the inner sole 11 comes to rest on the bottom 12 of the bottom of the shell (FIG. 2).
  • the transmission device 13 controls the detent movement of the skiing by braking it considerably; in fact, the support member 17 is in particular pushed towards the inside of the boot 1 by means of the wedge 19 and raises the inner sole 11 upwards, beyond the initial position for skiing , causing compression of the skier's foot, to the extreme until the wedge 17 comes into contact with the walking sole 9 of the shoe.
  • the transmission device 13 thus makes it possible to control the behavior of the ski in counter-bending.
  • the support member 17 can be provided with an upper stop means 21, constituted for example by a washer whose outer periphery is greater than that of the guide 17 ′ of the support member 17 in the sole 9.
  • This high stop means 21 will preferably be placed on the support member 17 at a predetermined height corresponding to the optimum tightening of the foot in the shoe, in position initial practice of skiing, as illustrated in FIG. 4. In this construction case, the possible movement in counter-bending of the ski 2 is thus made impossible at least between the two bindings 3 and 4 and the tightening of the foot in the boot is not accentuated.
  • an upper stop means 21 can be provided between the bottom of the shell 8 and the inner sole 11 to prevent the latter from compressing the foot during the counter-bending of the ski.
  • the means 21 is an elastic tongue obtained in the wall of the shell bottom 8. When the shoe is out of the front binding 3, this tongue is in relief outside the shell bottom 8 and is pushed back. towards the inside of the latter by said attachment 3 when the front part of the sole 9 is retained by the latter on the ski 2; thus placed, the tongue protrudes inside the shell bottom 8 above the end 16 of the movable sole 11 and then constitutes the upper stop means 21 of the latter.
  • the transmission device 13 ′ is equivalent to that 13 described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3 and is not distinguished therefrom, in the construction details near the support member 17, that in that the insole 11 ′ is articulated 14 at its anterior end 16 on the bottom 12 of the shell bottom 8.
  • Such an arrangement of the device 13 ′ is simply intended to preferentially transmit the posterior pressures of the foot on the insole 11 ′, unlike the device 13 of the shoe 1 which transmitted the previous pressures; as shown in Figure 5 so it is the lowering of the rear end 15 of the inner sole 11 'which occurs during a relatively large increase in the pressure of the heel of the skier thereon; owing to the lowering of the end 15 of the sole 11 ′, the support member 17 pushes the wedge 19 and urges the ski 2 to bend between the bindings 3 and 4.
  • the transmission devices 13, 13 ′ may or may not include high stop means 21 obtained on the support member 17 or on the shell bottom 8.
  • these abutment means 21 are irremovable and consequently determine the limit of the possible upward movement of the inner sole in a predetermined and immutable manner.
  • the abutment means 21 can also be provided adjustable to allow a very precise adjustment of the sitting position of the foot in the boot in the initial position for skiing regardless of the spacing distance. of the walking sole of said boot relative to the top of the ski 2 and / or of the thickness of the wedge 19 fixed on the latter.
  • the support member 17 is equipped with a high stop 21 constituted by a threaded part comprising a head intended to come to bear on the one hand, towards the bottom either on the top 7 of the ski 2, or on the wedge 19 and on the other hand upwards against the sole 9 around the guide 17 ′.
  • This threaded part being screwed into a corresponding hole obtained in the support member 17 it is then possible to modify the height of the latter relative to the inner sole 11-11 ′, thereby modifying the amplitude of upward movement of the inner sole 11-11 ′, and thus to adjust the position of seat (of the foot in the shoe in initial position of practice of the ski.
  • the support member 17 extends from the inner sole 11-11 'to the outside of the walking sole 9; However, this support member 17 can either be linked to or obtained in one piece with the internal sole 11-11 ′ or free relative to the latter as shown in FIGS. 1 to 5.
  • the inner sole 11-11 ′ simply has a support zone 22 against which the upper face 23 of the support member 17 is freely applied; in order to avoid the possible loss of said member when the shoe is used for walking, the latter advantageously comprises a shoulder 24 of dimension greater than that of the guide 17 ′ in the sole 9.
  • the transmission device 13-13 ′ can be constructed in different ways depending on the control and / or the effects to be produced on the ski; in particular, as illustrated in FIGS. 9, 10 and 11, the zone of cooperation of the support member with the top 7 of the ski 2 can be either centralized at a point on the longitudinal median axis of the ski (FIG. 9 ), or distributed substantially over the entire width of the ski (FIG. 10) or else located at any point of the width of the ski (FIG. 11).
  • the support member 17 is supported on the top 7 of the ski 2 by means of a wedge 19 as has been seen previously with reference to Figures 1 to 5 but could also have a greater height to come directly on said top 7 of the ski.
  • This end 31 is advantageously provided with a curved surface such that a spherical cap 35 so that the support on the wedge is always well achieved whatever the inclination of the sole 11-11 ′ around its articulation 14′-14 ′.
  • the support member 17 consists on the one hand, of two shouldered axes 27 spaced from one another, in the transverse direction to the sole 9 of the boot, so as to be substantially symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal median axis 34 of the ski when the boot is retained on the latter and on the other hand, of a connecting bar 28 of said axes 27 which comes into contact with the wedge 19, further constituting the upper stop means of the device.
  • Figure 11 shows a support member 17 of the same type as that described in Figure 9 but mounted offset from the axis 34 on one side of the sole 9 of the shoe.
  • Such a construction makes it possible to favor the transmission of internal pressures from the foot to the outside of the boot only on that of the sides of the ski 2 on which the member 17 rests.
  • the transmission device 13-13 ′ can also be equipped with a neutralization means 32 intended to block the insole 11-11 ′ in a position such that it can no longer enjoy a certain angular movement around its articulation 14 ′.
  • the support member 17 provided with a stop means 21 is provided integral with the inner sole 11-11 ′ and the neutralization means 32 consists of two screws 33 ( Figures 12a) mounted in the end 15 of said inner sole which screws rest on the bottom of the shell bottom 8; thus, by screwing them of a certain value, the end 15 of the inner sole 11-11 ′ is raised and simultaneously the abutment means 21 of the support member 17 against the sole 9 until the locking device is blocked. 13-13 ′ transmission in high position.
  • these same screws 33 can also constitute the means for adjusting the seating position of the foot in the shoe and / or the possible range of movement of the inner sole and therefore of the transmission device 13-13 ' to the top.
  • the adjustment of the position of the transmission device 13-13 ′ with respect to the top 7 of the ski 2 can be carried out by means of a wedge 19 whose thickness is adjustable.
  • the upper stop means 21, 31 of the transmission device can also be carried by the inner sole 11-11 'without departing from the scope of the invention.

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EP2739173A2 (de) * 2011-08-05 2014-06-11 Slingluff, Peter Schuh mit modifizierter ausrichtung des zehenkappenbereichs
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