EP1414531A1 - Verbesserte anordnung zum befestigen eines schuhwerks an einem sportgerät - Google Patents
Verbesserte anordnung zum befestigen eines schuhwerks an einem sportgerätInfo
- Publication number
- EP1414531A1 EP1414531A1 EP02754831A EP02754831A EP1414531A1 EP 1414531 A1 EP1414531 A1 EP 1414531A1 EP 02754831 A EP02754831 A EP 02754831A EP 02754831 A EP02754831 A EP 02754831A EP 1414531 A1 EP1414531 A1 EP 1414531A1
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- EP
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- Prior art keywords
- piece
- sports equipment
- footwear
- support plate
- arrangement according
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
- A63C9/00—Ski bindings
- A63C9/02—Non-self-releasing bindings with swivel sole-plate or swivel parts, i.e. Ellefsen-type
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
- A63C1/00—Skates
- A63C1/22—Skates with special foot-plates of the boot
- A63C1/28—Pivotally-mounted plates
Definitions
- the present invention refers to an improved arrangement for fastening a footwear to a piece of sports equipment, such as a cross-country ski, a roller ski, or "skiroll", a roller skate or an ice skate.
- Cross-country skis and roller skis which are intended to slide over a blanket of snow and over the ground on two or more rollers, respectively, are generally known to be formed by an elongated board on top of which there is attached an arrangement for fastening the footwear; usually, such an arrangement comprises a binding or clamping member in correspondence of the toe portion, whereas the heel-piece is left loose so as to enable the footwear to impart the necessary thrust required by the ski through the oscillation of the same footwear with respect to the binding member at the tip.
- Such an oscillation of the footwear is obtained through the deformation of the sole, which is in fact made of a flexible material, such as for instance a thermoplastic material.
- Roller skates or ice skates are on the contrary formed by a support frame for the rollers or the blade, on top of which the footwear is fastened. Owing to a skate being much shorter than a ski, and therefore much easier to handle, the footwear is fastened thereto both at its toe portion and its heel-piece, while the necessary thrust is imparted by raising the skate with respect to the ground jointly with the footwear attached thereto.
- a drawback that appears to be shared by the above cited prior-art solutions lies in the fact that, owing to the footwear being fastened to the piece of sports equipment in a stable manner, the user must wear different boots when moving to and from the place where the sports activity is actually being practiced. When he/she then reaches said place, he/she shall take off said boots and "wear" the piece of sports equipment via the footwear associated therewith, and such a procedure shall then be repeated in the reverse order upon conclusion of the sports activity.
- the user is practically forced to put on a different footwear, as associated with each piece of sports equipment, each time that he/she wants to change such a piece of sports equipment.
- This may for instance occur when a same user makes typically use of several types of skis, each type with different characteristics according to the different requirements that may arise at any particular moment (e.g. length, configuration, waxing, and the like), or different skates provided with differing sets of rollers, e.g. four or five rollers, rollers provided with bearings with different sliding or gliding properties, rollers of a different diameter, etc.
- the user must therefore put different boots whenever he/she changes the piece of sports equipment, under a resulting feeling of poor comfortableness and scarce adaptability of the boots to his/her own feet, caused by the absence of a prolonged use of the same footwear for a specific sports activity that generally is the primary condition in view of determining a proper compliant shaping and adaptation of a boot to the morphologic peculiarities of the foot of the user.
- another important purpose of the present invention is to enable the user to keep wearing the same footwear when changing from a piece of sports equipment to another one.
- a further purpose yet of the present invention is to make it more convenient and comfortable for the piece of sports equipment itself to be handled and transported.
- a last, although not least purpose of the present invention is to provide an arrangement that may be manufactured at reasonably low costs with the use of readily available, largely known tools, machinery and techniques.
- - a substantially rigid support plate that is pivotally connected in correspondence of its front end portion to said base, said plate being adapted to oscillate between a first position, in which it is in contact with said piece of sports equipment, and a second position, in which it is raised with respect to said piece of sports equipment;
- said support plate is provided with means enabling said footwear to be quickly positioned and fastened to said plate, said means being further adapted to removably cooperate with corresponding conjugate abutting members, or checks, provided on the sole of said footwear.
- FIG. 1 is a partially cross-sectional side view of the arrangement according to the present invention, as illustrated with the footwear unfastened and separated from the piece of sports equipment;
- FIG. 2 is a side view of the arrangement with the footwear fastened to and in contact with the piece of sports equipment;
- FIG. 3 is a same view as the previous one of the arrangement with the footwear fastened to, but in a raised position with respect to the piece of sports equipment.
- the reference numeral 1 is used there to generally indicate a piece of sports equipment that, in the illustrated embodiment, is constituted by a cross-country ski; in correspondence of the upper surface 2 of the ski 1 there is associated an improved arrangement according to the present invention, as generally indicated at 3, for fastening a footwear 4 to said ski 1.
- the arrangement 3 comprises a base 5 connected in a stable manner, for instance by means of screws, to the ski 1; said base 5 is provided with a pair of front brackets 6 and a pair of rear brackets 7.
- a hull 8 located in front of the base 5 not only to aesthetical purposes, but also to provide a protective covering to the whole arrangement.
- a support plate 9 which is made with such a conformation and /or such a material as to be able to confer the the same plate 9 an adequate structural rigidity in view of effectively transmitting to the piece of sports equipment the force exerted by the leg of the user during a pushing or thrusting phase as the related sports activity is being practiced; as anyone skilled in the art will be capable of readily realize, apart from being made of a suitable material, the plate 9 may be provided, for instance, with stiffening ribs on the lower portion facing the upper surface 2 of the ski 1 so as to ensure the required rigidity.
- the pivotal connection of the support plate 9 to the front pair of brackets 6 is obtained, for instance, by means of a pivot 10 that is located transversally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the ski 1 and passes through the front pair of brackets 6 and the front end portion 11 of the plate 9.
- the rear end portion 12 of the plate 9 is contained within the rear pair of brackets 7, which therefore constitute a seat for both accommodating and guiding the plate 9, and in contact with the upper surface 2 of the ski, possibly through the interposition of the base 5.
- the above described arrangement enables the plate 9 to oscillate between a first position, in which the rear end portion 12 thereof is in contact with the upper surface 2 of the ski 1 , and a second position in which said rear end portion 12 is on the contrary raised with respect to the ski 1 and, therefore, the plate 9 forms a pre-determined angle with respect to the upper surface 2 of the ski 1 ; to elastically oppose such an oscillation of the plate there are provided elastically deformable means 13, which may for instance be constituted by a pair of springs that are interconnected between the front pair of brackets 6 and the plate 9, or even by the same covering hull 8 that is in this case suitably made of an elastically deformable material.
- the support plate 9 is provided with means adapted to allow for the footwear 4 to be most quickly positioned and fastened on to the plate 9.
- these means comprise a first seat 14 and a second seat 15 provided in correspondence of the front end portion 11 and the rear end portion 12 of the support plate 9, respectively, and a temporary fastening member constituted, for instance, by a cam lever 16 that has its fulcrum in correspondence of the rear end . portion 12 of the plate 9 along an vertical axis 17.
- the above-described quick positioning and fastening means are adapted to removably cooperate with conjugate abutting or check elements provided on the sole 18 of the footwear 4; such elements are constituted by a first and a second protrusion 19, 20 projecting downwards from the sole 18 in correspondence of the toe portion 21 and the heel portion 22, respectively, and so shaped as to be able to fit by the coupling of shapes into said first and said second seat 14 and 15, respectively.
- the first protrusion 19 is arranged in a position which is set back from the toe, approximately in the zone of the metatarsus of the foot: it has in fact been found experimentally that fastening the boot exactly in such a zone proves effective in both increasing the thrusting or shoving power and enhancing the control in guiding the piece of sports equipment.
- the operation of the arrangement according to the present invention is as follows: upon putting on the footwear 4 and reaching the place where he/she is going to practice his/her sports activity, the user shall insert the first protrusion 19 into the first seat 14 by inclining the toe 21 of the footwear 4 downwards, in such a manner as to position the same footwear 4 on the support plate 9 for being then fastened thereto. He/she shall then lower the heel 22 and position the second protrusion 20 on the support plate 9 in the space comprised between the second seat 12 and the cam lever 16.
- the user Upon having so correctly positioned the footwear 4 on to the support plate, the user shall actuate the cam lever 16 so as to cause it to rotate about the vertical axis 17 until the cam 16a of said lever is brought into contact with the rear wall 20a of the second protrusion 20; doing this will cause the footwear 4 to be pushed towards the front portion of the piece of sports equipment 1, thereby causing the first and the second protrusion 19 and 20 to engage the first and the second seat 14 and 15, respectively, and be locked therein.
- this means that the footwear 4 is now fastened to the piece of sports equipment 1 , so as this is illustrated in Figure 2.
- the footwear 4 When such an operation is so completed, the footwear 4 will be capable of oscillating jointly with the support plate 9, so as this is illustrated in Figure 3, thereby transmitting the thrust power to the piece of sports equipment in an optimum manner thanks to the rigidity of the plate 9 itself.
- the assembly formed by the footwear and the piece of sports equipment is capable of maintaining and ensuring a high thrust power thanks to the interposition of the rigid support plate, while at the same time enabling the user to conveniently fasten and release the footwear to and from the piece of sports equipment exactly according to his/her particular needs or requirements.
- the cam lever 16 may for example be located in correspondence of the front end portion 11 of the plate 9, or in the middle portion thereof, without this meaning any departure from the scope of the invention.
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- Footwear And Its Accessory, Manufacturing Method And Apparatuses (AREA)
Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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ITPN20010031 ITPN20010031U1 (it) | 2001-08-10 | 2001-08-10 | Dispositivo perfezionato per l'aggancio di una calzatura ad un attrezzo sportivo. |
ITPN20010031U | 2001-08-10 | ||
PCT/EP2002/007450 WO2003013669A1 (en) | 2001-08-10 | 2002-07-05 | Improved arrangement for fastening a footwear to a piece of sports equipment |
Publications (1)
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EP1414531A1 true EP1414531A1 (de) | 2004-05-06 |
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EP02754831A Withdrawn EP1414531A1 (de) | 2001-08-10 | 2002-07-05 | Verbesserte anordnung zum befestigen eines schuhwerks an einem sportgerät |
Country Status (4)
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EP (1) | EP1414531A1 (de) |
CN (1) | CN1649649A (de) |
IT (1) | ITPN20010031U1 (de) |
WO (1) | WO2003013669A1 (de) |
Families Citing this family (1)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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EP1669113A1 (de) * | 2004-12-07 | 2006-06-14 | Mikael Östberg | Skibindung |
Citations (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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DE386120C (de) * | 1922-08-22 | 1923-12-04 | Karl Arnold | Schneeschuhbindung |
DE2714853A1 (de) * | 1977-04-02 | 1978-10-12 | Manfred Poschmann | Tourenvorrichtung fuer ski-sicherheitsbindungen |
EP0194633A2 (de) * | 1985-03-14 | 1986-09-17 | Tmc Corporation | Skibindung |
US5560633A (en) * | 1994-09-14 | 1996-10-01 | Mcgowan; Bruce | Downhill ski binding adapter |
WO1996037269A1 (en) * | 1995-05-24 | 1996-11-28 | Gierveld Beheer B.V. | Sport device |
WO2002005908A1 (en) * | 2000-07-18 | 2002-01-24 | Verducci Usa Llc | In-line racing skate propulsion device |
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US4928982A (en) * | 1988-03-18 | 1990-05-29 | Logan Kenneth C | Convertible running shoes/roller skates |
FR2754726B1 (fr) * | 1996-10-18 | 1998-11-27 | Salomon Sa | Dispositif de liaison entre une chaussure et un article de sport |
AU7898000A (en) * | 1999-11-02 | 2001-05-14 | Bc Company Ag | Sports shoe |
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- 2001-08-10 IT ITPN20010031 patent/ITPN20010031U1/it unknown
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- 2002-07-05 CN CN 02802746 patent/CN1649649A/zh active Pending
- 2002-07-05 EP EP02754831A patent/EP1414531A1/de not_active Withdrawn
- 2002-07-05 WO PCT/EP2002/007450 patent/WO2003013669A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
Patent Citations (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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DE386120C (de) * | 1922-08-22 | 1923-12-04 | Karl Arnold | Schneeschuhbindung |
DE2714853A1 (de) * | 1977-04-02 | 1978-10-12 | Manfred Poschmann | Tourenvorrichtung fuer ski-sicherheitsbindungen |
EP0194633A2 (de) * | 1985-03-14 | 1986-09-17 | Tmc Corporation | Skibindung |
US5560633A (en) * | 1994-09-14 | 1996-10-01 | Mcgowan; Bruce | Downhill ski binding adapter |
WO1996037269A1 (en) * | 1995-05-24 | 1996-11-28 | Gierveld Beheer B.V. | Sport device |
WO2002005908A1 (en) * | 2000-07-18 | 2002-01-24 | Verducci Usa Llc | In-line racing skate propulsion device |
Non-Patent Citations (1)
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CN1649649A (zh) | 2005-08-03 |
WO2003013669A1 (en) | 2003-02-20 |
ITPN20010031U1 (it) | 2003-02-10 |
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