WO1989004702A2

WO1989004702A2 - Pair of skis assembled by its ski poles

Info

Publication number: WO1989004702A2
Application number: PCT/DE1988/000735
Authority: WO
Inventors: Eberhard LÖFFELHOLZ
Original assignee: Loeffelholz Eberhard
Priority date: 1987-11-26
Filing date: 1988-11-28
Publication date: 1989-06-01
Also published as: WO1989004702A3

Abstract

In a pair of skis (1) assembled by its ski poles (2), the skis pass through at least one snow ring (4) of a ski pole. A tube (3) and an handle (5) with a wrist strap (6) are connected to the snow ring (4). The wrist strap (6) is itself designed as a ski-retaining strap or is covered by or connected to elements of a ski-retaining strap.

Description

Ski pair, which is connected by its ski poles

The invention relates to a pair of skis, which by its

Ski poles are connected, the skis of the pair of skiers reaching through at least one ski pole plate, to which a tube and a handle with a hand strap connect.

Such a combination is known for example from DE-OS 32 43 805. A ski pole is used there as a carrying device for cross-country skis, these cross-country skis being pushed through openings in the ski pole plate. Near the handle, the skis are then coupled to the ski pole via a locking strap. Although this device is already very practical, it has been found that the second ski stick, which is not connected to the pair of skis, is often lost. At least the unity of ski

5 pairs and broken ski poles.

Furthermore, the fastening strap to be used separately has proven to be not very practical. To bundle the pair of skis and the pole, the pair of skis and the pole can be held with one hand and the band must be wrapped around this bundle with the other hand. This is only possible if the locking strap is held simultaneously by the other hand or between the toppings of the ski couple. 5

The inventor set himself the task of developing a combination of the type mentioned above, by means of which both skis and both ski poles can be connected to one another in a simple manner, so that they are one unit both for transport and for storage represent.

To achieve this object, the hand strap itself is designed as a ski strap or is covered or connected with elements 5 of a ski strap.

This simple measure makes an additional ski strap, as is known for example from German utility model G 86 22 305.4, superfluous. The basic idea of the present invention is that the hand strap, which serves a completely different purpose when the sticks are used by the operator, is simultaneously used to produce a unit of ski pairs with associated sticks. 5 It is within the scope of the invention that, for example, both wrist straps can interact to connect. This option is especially considered when the actual wrist strap is used as a strap around both skis and, for example, around the other stick. In this case, the corresponding wrist strap would have to be very long, which is not desirable in many cases. Here, the hand strap of one ski pole can be coupled to the hand strap of the other ski pole, so that both hand straps together have a sufficient length for looping around the two skis and the two poles. However, this arrangement has the disadvantage that, as a rule, both hands must be used again to connect the two hand straps.

In order to avoid the latter disadvantage, it is provided that an extension or a strip is connected to a hand strap for connecting the two skis and the ski poles. With this strip, the wrist strap is thus extended so that the two skis and the poles can easily be wrapped around one another.

After the loop, the wrist strap or the extension must be fixed in some form. There should be no limit to the invention here. The connecting element can be, for example, a hook, a rubber ring, a snap hook, a push button, a hook or velor covering, to which a corresponding counterpart on the handle, the wrist strap, the tube of the same or the other ski pole or on one of the skis is assigned. 1 However, for reasons of handling and simplicity, it is preferred that the wrist strap or the strip has a covering of a Velcro fastener, which the corresponding counterpart on the wrist strap

5 is assigned.

This measure makes it possible in a simple manner to hold the two poles and the pair of skis with one hand, while holding the

10 strips are looped around the pair of skis together with part of the wrist strap and fixed on the corresponding other surface. When wrapped around the strip, preferably also the other ski stick. ^'15

This device saves a separate locking strap for the pair of skis, and the transport of the combination of pair of skis and ski poles is made considerably easier. Especially on bus trips to ski areas

20 this combination always forms a unit, so that, in particular, orderly transport is possible. Manual transport and carrying the combination has also been significantly improved.

25 The strip should preferably have a hook covering and the wrist strap should be covered with a velor covering. The reverse case is of course also possible, but normally the strip should be provided with an advertising print, which is the case with the smooth one

30 back of the Velcro is easier.

The covering on the wrist strap will generally extend to near the apex of the wrist strap, so that the strip with the other covering can then join. The covering on the wrist strap will generally extend to near the apex of the wrist strap, so that the strip with the other covering can then connect to it. The topping on the strip must be provided opposite to the topping on the wrist strap, since it only hits the topping assigned to it when it is wrapped around the pair of skis and the handles. However, the wrist strap can also be twisted.

To use the skis and ski poles, the strip is simply lifted off its base and the skis are pulled out of the ski plates. So that the strip does not have a disruptive effect, it has proven to be advantageous if it is virtually integrated into the wrist strap.

This can be done in that the strip is also provided with a Velcro coating on the other hand so that it can be folded down on its covering assigned to it for connection to the skis. However, it is preferred that, on the other side of the apex, the wrist strap is also provided with a further covering of the Velcro fastener, so that here the strip is simply placed on this covering and adheres to it. The strip is now "gone".

In a further exemplary embodiment of the invention, the wrist strap is connected to a strip which passes through two slots in the wrist strap and strikes a slot with a shoulder formed by a mushroom head. It is thus possible to effect the connection between the hand strap and the strip without a fastening means, such as a seam, rivet or the like. This significantly simplifies production.

The strip should preferably have a hook covering and the entire hand strap should consist of a corresponding velor or felt or the like. The reverse arrangement is of course also conceivable.

It is within the scope of the invention that the wrist strap is widened in the middle. This not only makes it easier to insert the strip, it also avoids cutting the wrist strap into the back of the hand.

In any case, the hand strap has two end strips which are inserted into an oblique hole in the handle and are fixed there with a wedge. If, for example, the entire wrist strap is made of a velor material, it is sufficient to produce this wedge from Velcro material. In the simplest case, it is sufficient to roll up a piece of Velcro material and clamp it as a wedge between the two end strips. This Velcro material naturally adheres to the velor.

Of course, it is also possible that, for example, a plastic wedge is covered with the appropriate Velcro material.

It is also within the scope of the invention that the ski stick plate is connected eccentrically to the tube and that its plate body has recesses for pushing the skis through. It is specifically provided for this that the recesses of the plate body of two related ski poles are arranged on the right or left side off-center. This makes it possible for the plate bodies to overlap and thus form two through openings for the skis of the pair of skis. Only this arrangement ensures a firm combination of the two skis with the two ski poles. This arrangement will be particularly preferred for cross-country skis, as they are less wide than alpine skis.

However, the inventor also thought that the skis should not be inserted too far through the push-through opening, since they should be used as a carrying device. For this reason, he designed the recesses in the plate bodies so that when one overlap, one recess of one plate body narrows the clear width of the recess of the other plate body assigned to it. It has turned out best here if the one recess is approximately rectangular and the other recess is approximately triangular.

This triangular-shaped recess forms, together with the right-hand recess, a wedge-shaped tapering through-opening, so that it is very easy to insert the ski, but as a result of the increasing thickness of the ski, further insertion is very soon prevented. In any case, the shape of the push-through openings which interact with one another should be coordinated in such a way that the handles with the hand straps come to lie near the point of contact of the ski pairs at the tip. In this way, a fixed combination of ski pair and its ski poles is produced, which are correspondingly easy to handle.

This described design of the ski plate has the disadvantage for alpine skis, which are considerably wider than the cross-country skis, that the diameter of the ski pole plate must be very large. For this reason, it should be preferred in the context of the invention for alpine skis that the recess for the pair of skis be made from both ski pole plates together. For this purpose, the ski pole plates are preferably shaped like a horseshoe and are arranged in mirror image to one another to form the recess.

In order to now produce the recess in a closed manner, the ski pole plates should be populated with interacting connecting elements. Here too, all possible connections are conceivable, ranging from appropriate push buttons to Velcro fasteners. For the sake of simplicity, it is preferred that the one ski pole plate has two holes into which two hooks of the other ski pole plate can engage, as a result of which a bed fitting connection is produced.

It should not go unmentioned that in particular retrofitting ski poles already in use is easily possible by means of the wrist strap according to the invention. These hand loops are usually inserted through a push-through opening in the handle and wedged together by a wedge. An exchange with the new hand straps is therefore easily possible. In this case, for example, the hand strap can be replaced by only one ski pole, this hand strap consisting entirely of a velor covering. In this case it would be conceivable that only the handle of the other stick or its tube is provided with a corresponding hook covering sleeve. In particular, this is a very cheap possibility of producing this combination of ski pair and ski poles.

In order to establish a certain cohesion of the two ski poles with one another before or after the skis are pushed through the ski pole plates, it is contemplated to provide cuffs near the handle, which are also covered with different parts of a Velcro fastener. The ski poles already stick together so that they can both be manipulated with one hand. However, regardless of the combination according to the invention, such cuffs are desirable in order to staple the ski poles of a pair together.

Further advantages, features and details of the invention result from the following description of preferred exemplary embodiments and from the drawing; this shows in

Figure 1 is a side view of a pair of skis with this pair of skis to a unit connecting ski poles.

2 shows a plan view of a ski pole plate according to the invention;

3 shows a partial illustration of a ski pole in the area of its handle;

4 shows an enlarged illustration of a hand strap fixed on the handle;

5 shows a further exemplary embodiment of a ski stick in the region of a handle;

6 shows a plan view of a further exemplary embodiment of a hand strap fixed on the handle;

7 shows a schematic illustration of a pair of ski poles in the holding position.

8 is a partial perspective view of a further pair of skis with sticks;

Fig. 9 is a partial view of a connection possibility of ski plates. According to FIG. 1, a pair of skis 1, regardless of whether they are cross-country or alpine skis, are held together by the poles 2 belonging to this pair of skis 1. For this purpose, each ski pole 2 has a tube 3, on the one hand a ski pole plate 4 and on the other hand a handle 5 with a hand strap 6 is fixed.

The ski pole plate 4 has a plate body 7, for example molded from plastic, which can be curved and provided with a tip 8. The tube 3 is arranged eccentrically in relation to the plate body 7, an area being formed in the plate body 7, which is penetrated by recesses 9. These recesses 9 are arranged such that at least two recesses 9 cooperate with two other recesses on the second floor ^' to form two push-through openings 10. The area of the push-through openings 10 is indicated by hatching in FIG. 2. From this illustration it can also be seen that the shape of the recesses 9 limits the insertion depth of the pair of skis 1 both in thickness and in width. Therefore, approximately triangular recesses 9a and, in addition, approximately rectangular recesses 9b are provided. When two ski pole plates 4 are connected, the triangular recess 9a of one ski pole plate passes over the rectangular recess 9b of the other ski pole plate. Exactly the reverse ratio is achieved for the adjacent recess. This overlapping of triangular and rectangular recesses 9a and 9b limits the clear width of the rectangular recess 9b. Usually the rear ends of skis are relatively thin and, if there are any differences in width, relatively narrow. They can easily be inserted into the through openings 10. After a certain insertion depth, however, the thickness of the ski increases considerably, particularly in cross-country skis, as a result of which this ski then becomes wedged in the insertion opening 10. The pair of skis 1 is thus effectively held together at one end by the ski pole plates 4. At the other end of the ski pole plate 4, the ski pole 2 usually has a handle 5. A hand strap 6 is inserted into this handle 5, although it can of course also be connected to the handle 5 in a different way.

In the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 3 and 4, a strip 11 is to be connected to the hand strap 6, which strip is covered with a Velcro covering 12 in the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 4.

As a counterpart to the Velcro covering 12, the hand strap 6 has a velor covering 13. This arrangement makes it possible for the hand strap 6 to be looped around the pair of skis 1, the strip 11 again meeting the velor covering 13 after looping around and so on connects both the ski pair 1 and the second ski pole arranged next to each other.

According to the invention, however, the wrist strap 6 should also be covered with a velor covering 14 on the opposite loop strip 6b, so that the strip 11 with its Velcro covering 12, if it is not used to hold the pair of skis 1 with the ski poles 2, can be applied to this velor covering 14 . This allows the hand strap 6 to be used unhindered. A similar result could also be achieved by providing the strip 11 with a Velcro covering on the other hand, so that this Velcro covering could interact with the velor covering 13. However, in this case the strip 11 cannot be provided with an advertising print. It also makes the matter more expensive.

Of course, it is also possible to exchange Velcro covering 12 or velor covering 13 and 14 for one another, so that strip 11 would then be provided with the velor covering. It would be most advantageous if the strip 11 is connected to the hand strap 6 as close as possible to the apex 15, since this provides sufficient space for the velor coverings 13 and 14, respectively.

In a further exemplary embodiment according to the invention according to FIG. 5, the entire hand strap 6a consists of velor or felt material. The strip 11a is covered with hook material and consists of an actual strip 23 and a mushroom head 24. The strip 23 penetrates two slots 25 and 26 in the hand strap 6a. Slipping through of the strip 11a is prevented by a stop shoulder 27 formed between the strip 23 and the mushroom head 24.

In Fig. 6 it can be seen that the wrist strap 6a widens in the middle. As a result, it fits the back of the hand better. The hand strap 6a or its two end strips 28 and 29 are inserted through an oblique bore 30 of the handle 5. The fixation in this oblique bore 30 takes place via a wedge 31. For the sake of simplicity, this wedge 31 can consist, for example, of rolled-up Velcro material or can be a plastic wedge which is covered with Velcro material. As a result, it is fastened in relation to the hand strap 6a made of velor material and wedges it non-slip in the oblique bore 30. In a preferred embodiment, the ski poles 2 have a small sleeve 16 below the handle 5, one sleeve again consisting of a Velcro material and the other of a velor material. This makes it possible, for example, to pierce the two ski poles 2 into snow 17 and to support them against one another, as is shown in FIG. 7. The cuffs 16 also ensure to a certain extent that the two ski poles 2 are held to one another before they are connected to the ski pair 1 in the manner described above.

The exemplary embodiment in FIGS. 8 and 9 is intended in particular for use with alpine skis. Here, too, a pair of skis la is connected to two ski poles 2a to form a unit. What has been said above applies to the connection relating to the wrist strap 6. However, the ski pole plates 4a are designed differently. This results from the consideration that alpine skis are generally much wider than cross-country skis. Accordingly, the recesses must also be adapted, which in turn would result in ski plates with a considerable diameter. This is not desirable for alpine skiing. For this reason, the inventor has developed a possibility of combining the two ski plates with one another in such a way that they together form a recess 19 for receiving the pair of skis la. Correspondingly, the ski pole plates 4a are roughly horseshoe-shaped.

According to the invention, these ski pole plates 4a are to be assigned connecting elements 20, via which two ski pole plates 4a can be connected to one another by ski poles 2a that belong together. In a simple exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 7, the one ski pole plate 4a has a hole 21 through which a hook 22 can be passed. The curvature of the hook 22 prevents it from slipping out of the hole 21. However, all possible other conceivable connecting elements are also possible within the scope of the invention. For example, this can be a push-button connection or the top and bottom of the corresponding ski pole plates 4a are covered with parts of a Velcro fastener. In some cases, a simple pin that can be inserted into a corresponding hole will also suffice.

Claims

1. Ξki pair, which is connected by its ski poles, the skis of the ski pair reaching through at least one ski pole plate, to which a tube and a handle with a wrist strap connect,

characterized,

that the wrist strap (6) itself is designed as a ski strap or is covered or connected with elements of a ski strap.

2. Pair of skis according to claim 1, characterized in that the two hand straps (6) of two ski poles (2) for connecting and with the pair of skis (1) cooperate.

3. Pair of skis according to claim 1 or 2, characterized gekenn¬ characterized in that an extension or strip (11) is connected to a hand strap (6) for connecting.

4. Ski pair according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the hand strap (6) or the extension (11) with a connection element, for example hook, rubber ring, snap hook, push button, hook or velor covering or the like is its counterpart on the handle

(5), the wrist strap (6), the tube (3) of the same or different ski pole or on a skier.

5. Pair of skis according to claim 4, characterized in that the hand strap (6) or the strip (11) has a covering (12) of a Velcro fastener, to which the corresponding counter-covering (13) on the hand strap (6) is assigned.

6. Pair of skis according to claim 5, characterized in that the strip (11) has a Velcro covering (12) and the wrist strap (6) is covered with a velor covering (13).

7. Pair of skis according to claim 5 or 6, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the hand strap (6) to near the apex (15) with the covering (13) and then the strip (11) with the hand strap

(6) is connected.

8. Ski pair according to claim 7, characterized in that the covering (12) on the strip (11) opposite to the covering (13) on the wrist strap (6) is arranged.

9. Pair of skis according to claim 8, characterized in that the part (6b) of the hand strap (6) after the apex (15) is occupied with a covering (12) which is opposite (14).

10. Ski pair according to at least one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the hand strap (6a) is connected to a strip (11a), the

Strip (11a) passes through two slots (25, 26) in the hand loop (6a) and strikes a slot (26) with a shoulder (27) formed by a mushroom head (24).

11. Pair of skis according to claim 10, characterized in that the strip (11a) has a hook covering and the wrist strap (6a) made of velor or felt or the like. Or vice versa.

12. Ski pair according to claim 11 or 12, characterized gekenn¬ characterized in that the hand strap (6a) widens in the middle.

13. Ski pair according to one of claims 10 to 12, characterized in that the hand strap (6a) with two end strips (28,29) is inserted into an oblique bore (30) of the handle (5) and is fixed there with a wedge (31) .

14. Ski pair according to claim 13, characterized in that the wedge (31) consists of Velcro material or at least with an opposite Velcro material to the end strips (28, 29) is occupied.

15. Pair of skis according to at least one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that the ski pole plate (4) is eccentrically connected to the tube (7) and its plate body (7) has recesses (9, 19).

16. Ski pair according to claim 15, characterized in that the recesses (9) of the plate body (7) of two associated ski poles (2) are arranged on the right or left side off-center.

17. Pair of skis according to claim 16, characterized in that the recesses (9) of two zueinanderghoren¬ the plate body (7) together form two push-through openings (10) for a ski.

18. A pair of skis according to claim 17, characterized in that the recess (9a) of one plate body (7) reduces the recess (9b) of the other plate body (7) assigned to it or its clear width.

19. Ski pair according to claim 18, characterized in that the one recess (9b) is approximately rectangular and the other (9a) is approximately triangular.

20. Pair of skis according to claim 15, characterized in that the recess (19) is formed by two ski pole plates (4a) of two associated ski poles (2a).

21. A pair of skis according to claim 20, characterized in that the ski pole plates (4a) are horseshoe-shaped.

22. A pair of skis according to claim 20 or 21, characterized gekenn¬ characterized in that the ski pole plate (4a) with cooperating connecting elements (20) are occupied.

23. A pair of skis according to claim 22, characterized in that the one ski stick plate (4a) has at least one hook (22) which engages in at least one hole (21) of the other ski stick plate in the closed position.

24. pair of skis, which is connected by its ski poles, the skis of the pair of skis reaching through at least one ski pole plate, to which a tube and a handle with a wrist strap connect, characterized in that the tube (3) of one Ski poles (2) below the handle (5) with one

Cuff (16) made from part of a Velcro fastener and the tube of the other ski pole (2) is provided with a cuff (16) made from another part of a Velcro fastener.