CA2540987C - A snowboard binding - Google Patents
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- CA2540987C CA2540987C CA002540987A CA2540987A CA2540987C CA 2540987 C CA2540987 C CA 2540987C CA 002540987 A CA002540987 A CA 002540987A CA 2540987 A CA2540987 A CA 2540987A CA 2540987 C CA2540987 C CA 2540987C
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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
- A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
- A63C10/16—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings
- A63C10/18—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings about a vertical rotation axis relative to the board
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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
- A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
- A63C10/02—Snowboard bindings characterised by details of the shoe holders
- A63C10/04—Shoe holders for passing over the shoe
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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
- A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
- A63C10/16—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings
- A63C10/20—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings in longitudinal or lateral direction relative to the board
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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
- A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
- A63C10/24—Calf or heel supports, e.g. adjustable high back or heel loops
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- Materials Applied To Surfaces To Minimize Adherence Of Mist Or Water (AREA)
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Abstract
A snowboard binding comprises a retaining member (4), which can be secured to a flat portion (5) of a snowboard (T) in order to hold locked on the flat portion a cradle (2) which accommodates a snowboard boot, and screws (7) which secure the retaining member to the flat portion and which can be loosened in order to permit the orientation of the cradle relative to the flat portion.
The screws have respective control keys (13) which are accessible on the retaining member in order to loosen and tighten them and the binding comprises loss-preventing holding means (15) for the screws on the retaining member in order to keep the screws attached to the retaining member regardless of whether or not they are engaged in the flat portion.
The screws have respective control keys (13) which are accessible on the retaining member in order to loosen and tighten them and the binding comprises loss-preventing holding means (15) for the screws on the retaining member in order to keep the screws attached to the retaining member regardless of whether or not they are engaged in the flat portion.
Description
A snowboard binding DESCRIPTION
Field of the invention The invention relates to a snowboard binding of the type including the features mentioned in the preamble of the main claim.
Background art Bindings that include those features are known, for example, from US
5,816,603, or from the applicant's current production.
These known bindings comprise a discoidal retaining element which is provided lo with slotted holes and which is accommodated in a partially embedded manner in a discoidal opening formed in a cradle which is in turn to accommodate the snowboard boot. The boot is then secured in the cradle by means of bands and straps. A typical requirement of snowboarders is to be able to vary both the orientation and the relative position of the cradle on the flat portion of the board. In order to do this, the screws that hold the retaining element of the cradle are loosened and the cradle is moved by rotating it relative to the board or by engaging the screws in holes which are in a different position on the flat portion. At this stage, it is particularly easy to lose one or more of the cradle securing screws with the risk of irretrievably jeopardising the day's sport unless spare screws are available. In addition, the handling of the screws is impeded by the winter clothing normally worn for snowboarding, in particular by the gloves, which makes the adjusting operation even more complicated.
Disclosure of the invention The technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide a binding in the case of which the operations for adjusting the binding relative to the board are particularly easy, even under difficult conditions and with clothing which is the source of possible obstruction.
CONFIRMATION COPY
Within the scope of this task, an object of the invention is to eliminate the risk of losing the screws and the consequent necessity to have spare screws avail-able.
Another object of the invention is to use for those purposes arrangements and equipment already provided on snowboards.
This technical problem is solved and these objects are achieved with a snow-board binding produced in accordance with the claims, which follow.
Brief description of the drawings The features and the advantages of the invention will emerge more clearly lo from the detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof which is illus-trated by way of non-limiting example with reference to the appended draw-ings in which:
- Figure 1 is a partial diagrammatic view of a snowboard with an associ-ated binding;
- Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a de-tail of the binding of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 is a top view of a detail of Figure 2;
- Figure 4 is a sectioned view taken on the line IV-IV of Figure 3;
- Figures 5 and 6 are bottom views of two possible embodiments of the 2o detail of Figure 3.
Best modes for carrying out the invention In Figure 1, T indicates a snowboard provided with a pair of bindings 1(only one of which is shown) for boots of the so-called "soft" type. Each binding 1 comprises a cradle 2 whose central portion has an opening 3 suitable for ac-commodating a discoidal retaining member 4 by means of which the cradle is held and locked, but with the option of adjustable angular positioning as de-sired in the manner described hereinafter, on the flat portion 5 of the snow-board T. In its turn, the retaining member is held on the flat portion 5 by means of screws 7 which are engaged in corresponding holes 8 in the snow-board, with the option of a first adjustment stemming from the longitudinal movement of the entire binding, which is achieved by disengaging the screws 7 from the holes 8 in order to engage them in different holes 8, and with the option of a second adjustment which is achieved by loosening the screws 7 in order to cause the retaining member to slide transversely to the longitudinal axis of the board owing to the provision of slotted through-holes 10 in the re-taining member, through which holes the screws 7 extend. The binding is sub-io ject to a third possible adjustment for angular orientation with respect to the board T by rotating the cradle 2 relative to the retaining member. All three of these adjustments are conventional and can be combined with one another as desired. Common to all of the adjustments is also the fact that, in order to ef-fect any of them, it is necessary at least to loosen the screws 7 if not actually to disengage them from the holes 8.
The screws 7 are provided with a threaded cylindrical shank 11 having a wid-ened head 12 at one end and a control key 13 (typically a transverse notch or a cross notch) in the head 12. A washer 14 complementing the head 12 is preferably interposed between the head 12 and the slotted holes 10 in the re-taining member 4. The screws 7 are engaged in such a manner that they pass with the shank 11 but not with the heads 12 (and/or the washers 14) through the slotted holes 10 in order to hold and lock the retaining member on the flat portion once the screws have been tightened.
According to the invention, the retaining member 4 is provided with loss-preventing holding means for the screws 7 in order to keep the latter attached to the retaining member regardless of whether or not they are engaged in the holes 8 in the flat portion. The loss-preventing holding means comprise a dis-coidal plate-like element 15 superposed on the retaining member 4 and held thereon by means of an adhesive interface 16 applied to the lower, connecting surface. The plate-like element 15 has means for access to the control keys 13 of the screws 7 in order to permit access to the control key without having to remove the loss-preventing means.
The access means are constituted by slotted openings 18 in the plate-like ele-ment which have dimensions such as to permit access to the control keys of the screws but not such as to enable the heads 12 to pass through, with the result that the heads are sandwiched between the retaining member and the 1o holding means.
The plate-like element is formed from a resilient plastics material, such as thermoformed EVAl and is shaped, at the surface remote from the retaining member, with circumferential projections and beads 19 as a snow-scraping device for snowboard boots. Thus, it is not necessary to provide the board with a separate snow-scraping member or, in other words, the snow-scraping member assumes this double functionality. Finally, it should be mentioned that the adhesive interface is limited to the regions of the plate-like element that are not subject to the superposition of the washers 14, or non-adhesive win-dows 20 are provided in the adhesive interface. These windows may be limited to the adjustment region of the heads 12 and washers 14, as indicated in Fig-ure 5, or they may extend as an elongation of one another, as indicated in Figure 6.
1 ethylene vinyl acetate 4
Field of the invention The invention relates to a snowboard binding of the type including the features mentioned in the preamble of the main claim.
Background art Bindings that include those features are known, for example, from US
5,816,603, or from the applicant's current production.
These known bindings comprise a discoidal retaining element which is provided lo with slotted holes and which is accommodated in a partially embedded manner in a discoidal opening formed in a cradle which is in turn to accommodate the snowboard boot. The boot is then secured in the cradle by means of bands and straps. A typical requirement of snowboarders is to be able to vary both the orientation and the relative position of the cradle on the flat portion of the board. In order to do this, the screws that hold the retaining element of the cradle are loosened and the cradle is moved by rotating it relative to the board or by engaging the screws in holes which are in a different position on the flat portion. At this stage, it is particularly easy to lose one or more of the cradle securing screws with the risk of irretrievably jeopardising the day's sport unless spare screws are available. In addition, the handling of the screws is impeded by the winter clothing normally worn for snowboarding, in particular by the gloves, which makes the adjusting operation even more complicated.
Disclosure of the invention The technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide a binding in the case of which the operations for adjusting the binding relative to the board are particularly easy, even under difficult conditions and with clothing which is the source of possible obstruction.
CONFIRMATION COPY
Within the scope of this task, an object of the invention is to eliminate the risk of losing the screws and the consequent necessity to have spare screws avail-able.
Another object of the invention is to use for those purposes arrangements and equipment already provided on snowboards.
This technical problem is solved and these objects are achieved with a snow-board binding produced in accordance with the claims, which follow.
Brief description of the drawings The features and the advantages of the invention will emerge more clearly lo from the detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof which is illus-trated by way of non-limiting example with reference to the appended draw-ings in which:
- Figure 1 is a partial diagrammatic view of a snowboard with an associ-ated binding;
- Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a de-tail of the binding of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 is a top view of a detail of Figure 2;
- Figure 4 is a sectioned view taken on the line IV-IV of Figure 3;
- Figures 5 and 6 are bottom views of two possible embodiments of the 2o detail of Figure 3.
Best modes for carrying out the invention In Figure 1, T indicates a snowboard provided with a pair of bindings 1(only one of which is shown) for boots of the so-called "soft" type. Each binding 1 comprises a cradle 2 whose central portion has an opening 3 suitable for ac-commodating a discoidal retaining member 4 by means of which the cradle is held and locked, but with the option of adjustable angular positioning as de-sired in the manner described hereinafter, on the flat portion 5 of the snow-board T. In its turn, the retaining member is held on the flat portion 5 by means of screws 7 which are engaged in corresponding holes 8 in the snow-board, with the option of a first adjustment stemming from the longitudinal movement of the entire binding, which is achieved by disengaging the screws 7 from the holes 8 in order to engage them in different holes 8, and with the option of a second adjustment which is achieved by loosening the screws 7 in order to cause the retaining member to slide transversely to the longitudinal axis of the board owing to the provision of slotted through-holes 10 in the re-taining member, through which holes the screws 7 extend. The binding is sub-io ject to a third possible adjustment for angular orientation with respect to the board T by rotating the cradle 2 relative to the retaining member. All three of these adjustments are conventional and can be combined with one another as desired. Common to all of the adjustments is also the fact that, in order to ef-fect any of them, it is necessary at least to loosen the screws 7 if not actually to disengage them from the holes 8.
The screws 7 are provided with a threaded cylindrical shank 11 having a wid-ened head 12 at one end and a control key 13 (typically a transverse notch or a cross notch) in the head 12. A washer 14 complementing the head 12 is preferably interposed between the head 12 and the slotted holes 10 in the re-taining member 4. The screws 7 are engaged in such a manner that they pass with the shank 11 but not with the heads 12 (and/or the washers 14) through the slotted holes 10 in order to hold and lock the retaining member on the flat portion once the screws have been tightened.
According to the invention, the retaining member 4 is provided with loss-preventing holding means for the screws 7 in order to keep the latter attached to the retaining member regardless of whether or not they are engaged in the holes 8 in the flat portion. The loss-preventing holding means comprise a dis-coidal plate-like element 15 superposed on the retaining member 4 and held thereon by means of an adhesive interface 16 applied to the lower, connecting surface. The plate-like element 15 has means for access to the control keys 13 of the screws 7 in order to permit access to the control key without having to remove the loss-preventing means.
The access means are constituted by slotted openings 18 in the plate-like ele-ment which have dimensions such as to permit access to the control keys of the screws but not such as to enable the heads 12 to pass through, with the result that the heads are sandwiched between the retaining member and the 1o holding means.
The plate-like element is formed from a resilient plastics material, such as thermoformed EVAl and is shaped, at the surface remote from the retaining member, with circumferential projections and beads 19 as a snow-scraping device for snowboard boots. Thus, it is not necessary to provide the board with a separate snow-scraping member or, in other words, the snow-scraping member assumes this double functionality. Finally, it should be mentioned that the adhesive interface is limited to the regions of the plate-like element that are not subject to the superposition of the washers 14, or non-adhesive win-dows 20 are provided in the adhesive interface. These windows may be limited to the adjustment region of the heads 12 and washers 14, as indicated in Fig-ure 5, or they may extend as an elongation of one another, as indicated in Figure 6.
1 ethylene vinyl acetate 4
Claims (9)
1. A snowboard binding comprising a retaining member which can be secured to a flat portion of a snowboard in order to hold locked on the flat portion a cradle which accommodates a snow-board boot, and screws which secure the retaining member to the flat portion and which can be loosened in order to permit the orientation of the cradle relative to the flat portion, the screws having respective control keys which are accessible on the retain-ing member in order to loosen and tighten the screws, character-ized in that it comprises loss-preventing holding means including a plate-like element superposed on the retaining member and held thereon, in order to keep the screws attached to the retaining member regardless of whether or not they are engaged in the flat portion.
2. A binding according to claim 1, the loss-preventing holding means having means for access to the control keys of the screws in order to permit access to the control key of the screws without removing the losspreventing means.
3. A binding according to claim 2, wherein the screws have heads widened with respect to a shank and are engaged in such a man-ner that they pass with the shank but not with the heads through respective openings in the retaining member in order to hold and lock the retaining member on the flat portion, the loss-preventing holding means including a platelike element superposed on the retaining member and held thereon, the means for access to the control keys of the screws including openings in the plate-like element which are suitable for permitting access to the control keys of the screws but not for enabling the heads to pass through, with the result that the heads are sandwiched between the retain-ing member and the loss-preventing holding means.
4. A binding according to claim 3, wherein both the retaining mem-ber and the plate-like element are discoidal.
5. A binding according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the plate-like ele-ment is shaped, on the surface remote from the retaining member, as a snow-scraping device for snowboard boots.
6. A binding according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the retaining member and the plate-like element are attached to one another with adhesive connection.
7. A binding according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the platelike element is formed from a resilient plastics material.
8. A binding according to claim 7, wherein the plastics material is thermoformed ethylene vinyl acetate.
9. A binding according to any one of claims 3 to 8, wherein the openings in the retaining member and in the plate-like element are slot-shaped.
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| PCT/EP2003/004527 WO2004096386A1 (en) | 2003-04-30 | 2003-04-30 | A snowboard binding |
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| CA2540987C true CA2540987C (en) | 2009-04-14 |
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