WO2003039687A2

WO2003039687A2 - Ski or snowboard wherein is embedded or recessed a guide rail system for binding units

Info

Publication number: WO2003039687A2
Application number: PCT/DE2002/004157
Authority: WO
Inventors: Markus Krummbeck; Vinko Avgustin; Marko Kozjek; Janez Ravnik; Matjaz Sarabon
Original assignee: Elan D.D.
Priority date: 2001-11-09
Filing date: 2002-11-07
Publication date: 2003-05-15
Also published as: AU2002363364A1; DE10154695A1; WO2003039687A3

Abstract

The invention concerns a guide rail system (3) for receiving binding units or support components (5) of binding units, so that they can be adjusted lengthwise or longitudinally displaced, said system being embedded in the ski (1) or in the snowboard.

Description

Ski or snow gliding board with recessed or recessed guide rail arrangement for binding aggregates

The invention relates to a ski or a snow sliding board with a platform-like area of the top of the ski or snow sliding board, which is integrated into the ski or the snow sliding board and is sunk or recessed in the guide rail arrangement for binding units or supporting parts which can be moved therein and can be fixed in adjustable or predefinable positions binding aggregates.

In the case of skis currently available on the market, and in a similar manner also for snowboards, it is provided that the necessary binding units are fastened with screws on the top of the ski or the top of the snowboard. For this purpose, holes are drilled into the top of the ski or snowboard using a drilling jig according to the size of the shoe to be inserted into the binding. The binding assemblies are then attached to the top of the ski or snowboard using suitable screws.

The effort associated with binding assembly is relatively high. In addition, the boreholes must be placed with great care and the screws screwed in with a controlled tightening torque. This work may only be carried out by specialists. If the mounting of the bindings is not carried out with sufficient care, the necessary strength of the mounting of the bindings on the ski or snow can board cannot be guaranteed. To make matters worse, the binding can only be assembled regularly when the shoe size of the buyer and the desired bindings are known.

Incidentally, when assembling the bindings, additional consideration must be given to how the respective buyer wants to use the ski. For example, it is advantageous to arrange the binding a bit backwards on the ski compared to a normal mounting position when the ski is to be used mainly in deep snow. If, on the other hand, the ski is intended to be particularly maneuverable and / or the ski is mainly used by a beginner it is advantageous if the ski binding is attached to the ski so that it is offset slightly forward.

Furthermore, skis are available on the market, on the upper side of which guide rails are fixedly arranged, into which appropriately adapted binding units or their supporting parts can be inserted. In principle, the bindings can be installed here long before the skis are sold, because subsequent and practically stepless adjustment of the binding units in the guide rails is possible without permanent changes to the skis.

However, the aforementioned skis are comparatively expensive because the arrangement of the guide rails on the top of the ski involves considerable effort in the production of the skis. From WO 02/49728 AI a ski of the type shown is known, wherein in the. Guide rail arrangement slide-like supporting parts are arranged on which in principle any binding aggregates can be mounted.

A particularly appealing design can be achieved by the arrangement of the guide rail arrangement which is recessed relative to the top of the ski.

The object of the invention is now to provide a construction with easily reproducible properties and comparatively simple to manufacture for a ski or a snow sliding board of the type specified at the outset.

This object is achieved according to the invention in that the platform-like region and the guide rail arrangement are arranged above a tensile load-bearing upper structural layer of the ski or snow gliding board.

The invention is based on the general idea of providing a structure which is largely independent of the guide rail arrangement and the platform-like region receiving it for the ski or the snow sliding board. Accordingly, the structure of the ski or snowboard is not weakened by the guide rail arrangement or the platform-like area. This also gives great freedom in the design of the guide rail ensures arrangement and the platform-like area.

According to a first embodiment of the invention, the guide rail arrangement can be laminated into the plate-shaped area of the upper side.

It can be expediently provided that the guide rail arrangement essentially consists of a base layer and guide rails formed thereon and is laminated onto the upper structural layer, the upper side of the ski or snow sliding board subsequently being formed by a laminated cover layer covering the guide rail arrangement, which is used for production is punched out of windows in the region of the guide rail arrangement.

In this context, it can additionally be provided that the base layer is laminated onto the structural layer with the interposition of further layers and / or that a layer framing the guide rails is laminated in front of the cover layer and / or at least another layer is laminated on the guide rail arrangement before the cover layer, which layer together with the top layer is punched out.

In an alternative production method it is provided that a plate-shaped part comprising the guide rail arrangement is laminated onto the structural layer and subsequently the upper side of the ski or snow gliding board is laminated on by a part covering the plate-shaped part Cover layer is formed, which is punched out to produce windows in the region of the guide rail arrangement.

According to a particularly expedient embodiment of the invention, a plate-shaped part can be used with an underside and / or top-side barrier layer covering the guide rail arrangement, which shields the guide rail arrangement during the lamination process against the entry of adhesive-like substances or melts, the upper barrier layer then together with the cover layer is punched out.

According to an advantageous alternative embodiment of the invention, the guide rail arrangement can be inserted into a recess or cutout in the platform-like region of the upper side.

In this case, during manufacture, the platform-like area is first produced by laminating a plurality of layers onto the ski or the snow sliding board or by laminating a prefabricated flexible plate body, the platform-like area subsequently being provided with a covering layer together with the ski or snow sliding board can. Then a recess is milled out in the platform-like area or produced in some other way by material removal. The guide rail arrangement is then inserted into this depression, the fastening of the guide rail arrangement by gluing to the bottom of the depression and / or by - preferably self-tapping - screws can be made, which are screwed into the upper structural layer.

Otherwise, with regard to preferred features of the invention, reference is made to the claims and the following explanation of the drawing, on the basis of which particularly preferred embodiments of the invention are described in more detail. Protection is not only claimed for expressly described or claimed combinations of features. Rather, the protection should also relate to sub-combinations of these features.

In the drawing shows

1 is a perspective view of a central longitudinal section of a ski according to the invention,

2 shows a vertical cross section along the section line II-II in FIG. 1,

3 shows a cross section corresponding to the section line III-III in FIG. 1,

4 shows a perspective sectional view of a plate part with an integrated guide rail arrangement that can be laminated onto a ski or the like,

5 is a sectional view of a ski with such a plate part with an integrated guide rail arrangement,

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of a ski with a laminated platform-like surface area and

7 shows a corresponding sectional view with a guide rail arrangement inserted into a milled-out area of the platform-like area. According to FIG. 1, a section of a ski 1, which is shown in a conventional manner, has a comparatively thick and, in comparison to the ski ends, rigid middle section 2.

According to the invention, a guide rail arrangement 3 is arranged in this middle section, which represents part of a laminate forming the ski, as will be described in more detail below.

The guide rail arrangement 3 is covered by a laminate layer 4 forming the upper side of the ski, which is punched out in regions after application to the ski 1 to remove sections 4 ′ in order to make the guide rail arrangement 3 accessible.

In the guide rail arrangement 3, two slide parts 5 are slidably inserted, on which, in principle, conventional shoe holder units of a ski binding can be mounted. For this purpose, corresponding bores 6 for receiving fastening screws are arranged or attachable in the slide parts 5. To fix the slide parts 5 in the longitudinal direction of the ski, flat strip-like extensions (not shown in FIG. 1) can be arranged on the slide parts 5, which extend into the area of the guide rail arrangement 3 covered by the upper laminate layer 4 between the slide parts 5 and anchored there or together or separately be, for example with through openings 7 in the upper laminate layer 4 in the ski 1 usable pins or the like.

2 and 3, the ski 1 has a core 10, for example made of glued wooden layers or strips, which is connected to plastic side strips 11 and on its top and bottom with at least one layer 12 or 13 made of fiberglass or a similar tensile strength Material is armored. A tread 14 with steel edges 15 is laminated under the lower layer 12.

On the upper layer 13, optionally with the interposition of further layers (not shown), the guide rail arrangement 3 consisting essentially of a base layer 16 with guide rails 17 integrally formed thereon is laminated on, which already during the manufacture of skis has the slide parts which are practically immobile in the vertical and transverse directions in the guide rail arrangement 3 5 records.

To frame the guide rail arrangement 3, a layer 18 can be provided which has a large window, for example produced by punching out, corresponding to the base area of the guide rail arrangement 3 or corresponding to the guide rails 17. In particular, at the longitudinal ends of the guide rail arrangement 3, parts of the layer 18 between the guide rails 17 can be laminated onto the base layer 16. The top of the ski is formed by a laminated cover layer 19, which can optionally also consist of sheet metal. After the lamination, the cover layer 19 is punched out or cut out to produce windows through which the slide parts 5 according to FIG. 1 are accessible.

2 can cover or reinforce the rails 17 from above.

In the example shown, a channel-shaped cavity is formed in the longitudinal direction of the ski between the slide parts 5 (cf. FIG. 1) between the cover layer 19 and the guide rail arrangement 3 or the base layer 16 of this guide rail arrangement, which cavity is arranged on the slide parts 5 can hold flat ribbon-like extensions 20, 21 or the like, with which the slide parts 5 can be fixed in the longitudinal direction of the ski, for example by fixing the extensions 20 and 21 with a pin 22 which penetrates the cover layer 19 and the extensions 20 and 21 into the Ski 1 is used.

FIG. 4 shows a platform-like plate part 30 which can be laminated onto the middle region of the upper side of a ski which is not shown in FIG. 4. This plate part 30 is itself constructed and constructed in the manner of a laminate. A guide rail profile 32 is laminated onto a lower barrier layer 31, which essentially consists of a base layer laminated onto the barrier layer 31 with C- molded on its longitudinal edges. shaped guide rails, in which the slide parts 5 are guided. The guide rail profile 32 is covered by an upper barrier layer 33, which in the example shown also covers the side edges of the guide rail profile 32 and thus connects to the lower barrier layer 31.

5, the plate part 30 is laminated onto the top of the ski 1. In the example in FIG. 5, this has a tread 34 consisting of two layers, the lower layer of which can consist of a material with good sliding properties on snow or ice and the upper layer of which can be made of a reinforced plastic material with high puncture resistance. Steel edges 15 are in turn arranged on the edges of the running surface 34. Above the tread 34 there is a lower, high-strength, tensile layer 35 which, together with an upper, high-strength, tensile layer 36, surrounds a core 37, which in principle can be constructed in the same way as the core 10 in FIGS. 2 and 3. The upper high-strength, tensile layer 36 is guided around the flanks of the core 37 and connected to the lower high-strength layer 35 near the steel edges 15.

The plate part 30 is laminated onto the top of the upper layer 36. The top of the plate part 30 and the top of the ski 1 is coated with a laminated, possibly multilayer cover layer 38, which also covers the flanks of the plate part 30 and the ski 1 up to the vicinity of the steel edges 15. This cover layer 38 or Ren top layer can be formed as a decorative layer.

After the laminate shown in FIG. 5 has been produced, the cover layer 38 and the upper barrier layer 33 are punched out within the displacement region of the slide parts 5, so that the slide parts 5 are accessible for mounting the binding.

In the example in FIG. 6, a flexible plate body 40 is laminated onto a ski 1, which can have the same structure as in the example in FIG. 5, so that a platform-like area is formed in a central region of the upper side of the ski.

The upper side and the flanks of the plate body 40 and of the ski 1 are in turn provided with a laminated cover layer 38 which, as in the example in FIG. 5, can be of multi-layer or two-layer design and in the example of FIG. 6 from a lower, non-load-bearing compliant Decorative layer of, for example, textile-like material and an outer layer consisting essentially of a lacquer-like film material.

A recess is then milled into the platform-like region formed by the plate body 40 and the cover layer 38, into which the guide rail profile 32 can then be inserted, as shown in FIG. 7. At the side edges of the guide rail profile 32, flexible frame leads Most 41 be laminated on, which cover the essentially egg-shaped, the slide parts 5 receiving guide rails from above and thus optically narrow the opening of the aforementioned recess in the platform-like area.

The guide rail profile 32 can be attached to or on the upper high-strength layer 36 of the ski 1 by means of an adhesive layer 42 and / or by means of screws 43, which are preferably self-tapping.

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Claims

Expectations

1. Ski or snow sliding board (1) with a platform-like region (2) of the top of the ski or snow sliding board integrated or recessed into the ski or snow sliding board (1), or recessed guide rail arrangement (3, 32) for displaceable therein and binding aggregates or supporting parts (5) for binding aggregates which can be fixed in adjustable or predefinable positions, characterized in that the platform-like region and the guide rail arrangement are arranged above a tensile load-bearing upper structural layer (13, 36) of the ski or snow sliding board.

2. Ski or snow gliding board according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide rail arrangement (3,32) is laminated into the platform-like area of the top.

3. Ski or snow sliding board according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide rail arrangement (3, 32) is inserted into a recess or cutout in the platform-like region of the upper side.

4. Ski or snow gliding board according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that a layer covering the top of the platform-like region (19, 38), in particular decorative layer, is punched out in the region of the guide rail arrangement (3.32).

5. Ski or snow gliding board according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the guide rail arrangement (3, 32) consists essentially of a base layer (16) with molded guide rails (17).

6. Ski or snow sliding board according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the platform-like area and the ski or snow sliding board are covered or covered with a common top layer (19, 38).

7. A method for producing a ski or snow sliding board according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the essentially consisting of a base layer (16) and guide rails (17) formed thereon, guide ^¬ rail arrangement (3.32) on the upper Structure layer (13) laminated and then the top of the ski or snow sliding board through a guide rail arrangement covering, laminated cover layer (19) is formed, which is punched out to produce windows in the region of the guide rail arrangement (3, 32).

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that the base layer (16) is laminated onto the structural layer (13) with the interposition of further layers.

9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that a layer (18) framing the guide rails (17) is laminated in front of the cover layer (19).

10. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 9, characterized in that before the cover layer (19) at least on the guide rail arrangement (3,32) another layer is laminated, which is punched out together with the cover layer (19).

11. A method for producing a ski or snow sliding board according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a plate-shaped part (30) comprising the guide rail arrangement (32) is laminated onto the upper structural layer (13, 36) and subsequently the upper side of the ski or snow gliding board is formed by a laminated cover layer (38) covering the plate-shaped part, which is punched out to produce windows in the region of the guide rail arrangement.

12. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that a plate-shaped part (30) with an underside and / or top side, the guide rail arrangement (32) covering barrier layer (38) is used, which the guide rail arrangement during lamination processes against the entry of adhesive-like substances or Melting shields, the upper barrier layer which may be present being punched out together with the cover layer (38).

13. A method for producing a ski or snow sliding board according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a flexible plate body (40) is laminated onto the upper structural layer (13, 36) and subsequently the top of the ski or snow sliding board is covered by a Laminated cover layer (38) covering the plate body is formed, and that a depression is then created or milled through the cover layer in the plate body (40), into which the guide rail arrangement (32) is inserted.

14. The method according to claim 13, characterized in that the recess is guided up to the upper structural layer (13, 36).

15. The method according to claim 13 or 14, characterized in that the guide rail arrangement (32) is glued to the bottom of the recess and / or screwed to the upper structural layer (36).