WO1984002063A1

WO1984002063A1 - Tool for skis and ski shoes

Info

Publication number: WO1984002063A1
Application number: PCT/EP1983/000315
Authority: WO
Inventors: Peter Knoll
Original assignee: Akd Vertriebs Gmbh
Priority date: 1982-11-25
Filing date: 1983-11-24
Publication date: 1984-06-07
Also published as: DE8233110U1; EP0126738A1

Abstract

The tool (1) for skis and ski shoes is of universal utilization. The tools known heretofore, respectively aids, are exclusively designed to close, respectively open, the closure buckles (25) of ski shoes (24). Besides many other utilization possibilities, the invention takes into account known disavantages, such as the sliding of the tool mainly when closing the closure buckles (25), or the contact with snow during the final phase of the closure. The invention provides an opening (4) in the oblong and flat tool (1), as well as a bent cross-bar (5) adjacent thereto. By bending the cross-bar, the lever effect is enhanced and it is insured that said ski tool will not come into contact with the ground during the closing, respectively the opening, of closure buckles.

Description

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Ski and ski boot tools

Description

The invention relates to a ski and ski boot tool according to the preamble of claim 1, which is particularly suitable in particular for closing and opening the closure buckles of a ski boot.

Such a generic tool is known from US Pat. No. 4,210,035. The tool described there has approximately the shape of a trapezoid with relatively long side lines in plan view. While an opening is provided in the end face or the base region of this trapezoid, the upper trapezoid region of this known tool is designed like a mouth or fork in the side view. This tool serves as an attachable lever for Lock buckles of a ski boot. The narrow side of the tool, which has the fork-shaped opening, is pushed over a closure buckle when the ski boot is not yet closed. The configuration of the fork opening of the tool is adapted to the usually existing curvature of the individual locking buckles. When the tool is placed on the individual locking buckles, the fork of the tool absorbs this locking buckle, so to speak.

Depressing and closing the locking buckles when the tool is in place is more energy-efficient than usual due to the extended lever arm and can be carried out without great effort. A disadvantage, however, is that the curvature of the fork means that the tool can only be attached to the locking buckles in one position both when opening and when closing. A complete closing of the locking buckles is usually not possible, since the length of the tool would place the rear part of the tool on the snow cover. The same disadvantage also occurs when opening the buckles with this tool. In addition, the closure buckle itself, especially in the case of icing, as occurs repeatedly on the ski boot, can slip out of the lateral regions of the fork of the tool, so that overall difficult work with this tool, possibly with the ski boot being put on at a higher level than the blanket of snow is required.

The opening provided in the end surface facing away from the fork of the tool, which is delimited by a crosspiece with a relatively low material thickness to the edge of the tool, obviously only serves to save weight, since instructions for use of another type in US Pat. No. 4,210,035 cannot be found. A so-called ski hook (Eurosport & Freizeitmode, Quicksport, October 13, 1982, page 344) also shows how problematic ^* the closing and opening of closure buckles of ski boots is. This ski hook is initially a pure ski boot tool, which should make it easier to open and close the locking buckles. A disadvantage of this ski hook is, on the one hand, that the actual lever handle engages offset outwards from the longitudinal axis of the entire tool. This results in a one-sided load and risk of breakage in the tool and, on the other hand, tilting, as a result of which the slipping is further increased in the case of icy buckles. Likewise, in the case of the closure buckles arranged in the flat region of the ski boot, one reaches the snow region when closing through the lever length of the ski hook, or the closure buckle itself cannot be pressed down completely to the outer surface of the ski boot.

The aforementioned known tools have in common that their area of application is directed solely at the closing or opening of the closure buckles of the ski boot. For other applications, such as those that are always required when skiing, e.g. the adjustment of the binding or the like, these known tools are not suitable.

The invention is therefore based on the object of providing an easy-to-use ski tool in the sense of a versatile aid both for the ski boot and for the skis themselves or the ski pole, which is particularly suitable for closing and opening the locking buckles of the ski boot.

In a generic ski and ski boot tool, this object is achieved according to the invention by the features of characterizing part of claim 1 solved ..

Since the tool according to the invention can both be used to close the ski boot, as mentioned above, and for purposes of use for the ski itself, the following will be used on the one hand, in contrast to the known ski boot tools, and on the other hand for reasons of clarity for the combined Ski and ski boot tool the term "ski tool" is used.

The ski tool is based on the idea that it is versatile for ski boots and skis as well as ski poles. On the other hand, when used as extension lever to close or open the closure buckle ^'can be set so that is in this case does not cause a contact with the level of the snow even in the foremost closure buckles and at whose vollständi¬ according closing. This means that the person handling the ski tool does not have to bend to the extent and to the extent that it is the case with the known tools in order to open and close the closure buckles of a ski boot. However, it should also be ensured that the closure buckles can in principle be completely pressed or levered up to the outer shell of the ski boot, although the ski tool can still be easily and naturally removed in this closed position of a buckle without damaging the ski boot.

In order to make this possible, the ski tool is made of a material, preferably a flat iron, with a relatively low material thickness, at least in the region of the crossbar. The crossbar, which is provided at the wider end of the ski tool, is bent or angled, that the line of curvature coincides at least with the edge of the opening oriented towards the end of the ski tool. The angled section of the crosspiece can, however, also be such that the opening plane itself lies in two planes oriented towards one another by the angle of the bend, ie the opening extends somewhat into the crosspiece, so to speak.

The opening made in the sheet material, for example by punching, preferably has an approximately elongated rectangular shape. The narrow sides of this rectangular opening are provided approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the ski tool. The height of the opening, i.e. the opening of the narrow sides is chosen at least so that the cross-sectional contour of the common closure buckles of ski boots can be easily passed through.

When this ski tool is used to close a closure buckle, the bend being made approximately 90 ° with respect to the main plane of the ski tool, the ski tool is placed on the closure buckle with the crosspiece pointing towards the closure buckle. In this state, the closure buckle protrudes more or less long with its end through the opening of the ski tool in the opposite direction to the crosspiece. When a force is exerted approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the ski tool, the locking buckle comes into contact with at least the outer edge of the crossbar and the inner edge of the opening. The ski tool and the locking buckle used form approximately a triangular configuration in this area and condition. With such a positioning of the ski tool in relation to the locking buckle, it is ensured, for example in the case of a 90 ° bend, that the actual one Lever arm of the ski tool is initially very steeply oriented upwards. It can be gripped easily and comfortably. But even when the locking buckle is completely closed, the longitudinal axis of the ski tool comes to lie only in a horizontal plane, so that any contact with the ground surface or snow cover is excluded.

Due to the relatively low material thickness of the crossbar, the closure buckle can be pressed down on the shoe up to this minimal distance. Because of the linear planes and preferably even the outer surface of the crosspiece, which is designed as a sliding surface, the ski tool with the sliding surface in contact with the ski boot can then be pulled off the closure buckle.

When opening the locking buckles, the ski tool with the crossbar is placed on the locking buckle in the opposite direction as when closing ^* . In this case, the crossbar points slightly downwards away from the ski boot. The ski tool pointing slightly upwards in this position can therefore be easily grasped and the corresponding locking buckle can be opened with an approximately horizontal force component.

The completely rimmed opening, into which the locking buckle is inserted both when closing and when opening, in any case prevents the buckle from sliding sideways, especially in the icy state. It is also unproblematic in which exact position the opening of the ski tool lies in relation to the buckle, since the closure buckle cannot slide out of the opening.

O PI The crossbar is preferably bent by approximately 90 ° relative to the main surface of the ski tool. Please note that the angle should not be less than 90 °. However, the angle can be greater than 90 °, for example up to 130 °. With this bend it must be ensured that the ski tool can still be arranged in the closed position of a locking buckle approximately in a horizontal position or slightly inclined. A flat iron, for example with a material thickness of 2 mm, is particularly suitable as material, the entire tool being able to be produced in a single punching process and a subsequent bending of the crossbar. In this case, the strength and robustness of the ski tool in such a production can be realized extremely inexpensively.

The outer edge of the crossbar facing away from the tool is preferably formed in a straight line. With a total width of the ski tool in this area of the crossbar of approx. 5 cm, which is a medium value, this edge can then be used as a wax pull-off bar. In the event of groove-like damage to the sliding surface of the ski, it is possible to pull off the wax applied to fill up the grooves with this outer edge of the crossbar. In this case, the crossbar can be placed on the other steel edge of the ski and then extends approximately to the guide groove on the running or sliding surface of the ski. In a similar way, however, one straight longitudinal outside of the ski tool can also be used.

In order to achieve a favorable starting angle when opening or closing closure buckles, the crosspiece has a multiple of its material thickness and the height of the crosspiece, measured from the edge of the bend, is preferably approximately 1.2 cm. Of course, the Bending or bending should not be carried out in an angular manner. Rather, a bend is suitable> in the sense that there is a slight rounding on the outside. The use of a flat iron in combination with a corresponding lever length of the ski tool is used even more optimally, in that a screwdriver attachment is formed or stamped out on the end of the ski tool opposite the crossbar, which tapers. Every skier knows how helpful such a screwdriver, which is designed here as a slotted screwdriver, is for adjusting the binding, for repairing the ski pole and the like. The tiresome problem that the sole of the ski boot has to be cleared of snow and ice residues when getting into the binding is taken into account in the ski tool according to the invention in that the longitudinal outer side is designed in a zigzag shape so that the ski tool can also be used as a snow and ice scraper with its long length on the zigzag shape.

In order to make this ski tool almost a universal tool for the skier, a narrow, elongated grinding device is preferably attached to the outer surface of the ski tool facing away from the crossbar. The grinding device can have the shape of a flat square, along the center line of which a V-shape pointing outwards with grinding surfaces on both sides is provided. A type of square iron, which can be welded to the outer surface, for example, is more cost-effective and with regard to the use of the further outer surface of the ski tool as a guide surface. Other

Fastening options such as riveting through are also conceivable. Such a square iron is provided on the surfaces which are approximately perpendicular to the outer surface of the ski tool with file-like surfaces which can then be used as grinding surfaces for the steel edges. In a In another embodiment, an approximately rectangular recess can already be provided on the straight outer side of the ski tool during the punching process, which can be used as an alternative to the abovementioned possibilities as a grinding edge if appropriate by hardening the edges. In order to make this ski tool even quicker to grasp and to solve the storage problem, it is advantageously provided to attach a rubber loop or a rubber band to this tool. This can be achieved, for example, by two small bores or punchings on the end of the screwdriver. The ends of a rubber band can in this case be passed through these holes and knotted together or individually on the other side. The loop thus formed makes it possible, on the one hand, to fasten the compact ski tool, for example, to the ski pole itself. For this purpose, the rubber band would be led around the ski pole once or twice and placed around the crosspiece at the other end of the ski tool. In the case of the flat design of the ski tool in the form of an elongated triangle and in particular when the crossbar is bent by approximately 90 °, the ski tool in combination with a rubber band can also be used for the positive and non-positive connection of the two skis. Depending on the attachment of the grinding device, ie on the corresponding outside or in the longitudinal or transverse direction of the ski tool, the other outer surface comes to lie against the surface of the ski when the two skis are tied together. The rubber band is guided around the other second ski and hooked or otherwise fastened at the other end. In terms of handiness, stability and low price, this ski tool can have a total length of approximately 12 cm, a width of approximately 5 cm at the wider end, which is provided with the opening, and a width of approximately 1.5 cm on that Have crossbar opposite end. The screwdriver tip has a customary width of about 0.5 cm to 1 cm. With these dimensions, the ski tool can be stowed without any problems. On the other hand, however, it still has the corresponding length in order to be able to be used in a power-saving manner for the various possible uses.

The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of an exemplary embodiment and schematic drawings. Show it:

1 shows a plan view of the main surface of the ski tool, the crossbar protruding, so to speak, from the plane of the drawing;

FIG. 2 shows a side view of the ski tool shown in FIG. 1 in a somewhat shortened representation and

3 shows a ski tool which is used to close a locking buckle in the final phase of the closing of the buckle.

The ski tool 1 shown in FIG. 1 has a trapezoidal shape in the top view, the base side of which according to FIG. 1 is formed by the edge 29 of the crosspiece S. At the narrower upper end 2, a screwdriver attachment 15 is formed over a step-like transition. The length of the ski tool 1 according to FIG. 1 corresponds to the height of the aforementioned trapezoidal shape. A rectangular opening 4 is provided in the lower, wider end surface 3. This opening 4, like the entire ski tool 1, if a flat iron with a thin material thickness is used for it, in one

OMH Punching process. The narrow sides of the opening 4 are arranged parallel to the longitudinal central axis of the entire ski tool 1. This length of the narrow sides is chosen so that the locking buckles of today's ski boots can be easily and conveniently inserted through this opening 4. Of course, in practice this opening 4 of the ski tool 1 is pushed over the corresponding locking buckle 25.

The cross bar 5 formed at the lower end 4 of the one-piece ski tool forms the end edge 14 of the opening 4. In the side view according to FIG. 2, the cross bar 5 is angled at approximately 90 ° with respect to the skin, the inner surface 8 of the ski tool 1 or bent up. The overall configuration of the ski tool 1 according to FIG. 2 is therefore hook-like.

The outer surface 28 of the crosspiece 5 is straight and perfectly flat and in particular is designed as a sliding surface. At the transition from the outer surface 9 of the ski tool 1 to the crossbar 5, a rounding 6 is provided even when the crossbar is very strongly bent.

The outer longitudinal sides 10 and 12 are designed differently in the exemplary embodiment. While the left-hand outer side 10 according to FIG. 1 runs in a straight line and can also be used as a peeling edge, the right-hand longitudinal side 12 has a zigzag shape. This page 12 is therefore suitable as a snow or ice scraper. At the upper, narrower end 2, two holes 16 are provided, which are provided as a bushing for a rubber band 17. As shown in Fig. 2, the rubber band 17 can be knotted on the outer surface 9 or otherwise attached like a mushroom. That laterally delimit the opening 4 at the lower end 3 of the ski tool 1

O PI Bridges are of approximately the same strength over the height of the opening 4 ^{′ in} order to ensure sufficient strength of the entire ski tool 1.

Running approximately in the longitudinal axis of the ski tool 1, the square contour of an edge grinder 20 is indicated in FIG. 1 with a dash-dotted line. In the example, this edge grinder 20 has a square shape, and the attachment to the outer surface 9 can be carried out, for example, by welding. The surfaces 21 of the edge grinder that are perpendicular to the outer surface are designed as grinding surfaces, preferably with fine groove areas that run obliquely to transversely to the outer surface 9.

While the edge 29 of the crosspiece 5 is sharply folded in order to be able to be used in this form as a wax pull-off bar, the screwdriver attachment 15 has a slightly wedge-shaped cross section as usual.

The rubber band 17 is not limited to the relatively thin, cord-like cross-sectional shape according to FIG. 2, but can of course also be a broadband or a stronger rubber-elastic loop.

3 shows the arrangement of the ski tool 1 when a locking buckle is closed. The most critical, foremost buckle 25 is shown on the front part 24 of the ski boot. While known aids usually come into contact with the ground or the snow cover in the final phase of the closing of such buckles, the tool 1 described here stands out from the ski boot 24 in a manner that is easy to grasp and remove. As can be seen in FIG. 3, the ski tool 1 is pushed with its opening 4 over a closure buckle 24 in such a way that the crossbar 5 or its outer Edge 29 in the direction of the lever point of the locking buckle 25 shows. Once the top of the. Locking buckle 25 comes into contact with the inner edge, ie the edge oriented towards the central part of the ski tool 1, the ski tool 1 can be pressed down as a lever for closing the locking buckle 25. Due to the contact at the edge 29 of the crosspiece 5 with the lower edge of the locking buckle 25, it is impossible for the ski tool 1 to slip off. After the ski tool 1 has been pressed down to the position shown in FIG. 3, the longitudinal part of the ski tool is raised minimally and very slightly, as a result of which the outside 28 of the crossbar 5, which is designed as a sliding surface, comes into surface contact with the outer surface of the ski shoe. In this position, the closure buckle 25 is only at a minimal distance, which corresponds to the material thickness, from the outer surface of the shoe, so that the closure buckle cannot open.

When the locking buckles 25 are opened, the ski tool 1 is arranged with the orientation of the crossbar 5 in the opposite direction to that when closing. Therefore, when opening the ski tool 1 from the outer surface 9 with the opening 4 is pushed over a locking buckle. Due to the corresponding leverage effect, the locking buckle can also be opened with considerably less effort.

In addition to the aforementioned versatility of use of this ski tool 1 for ski boots and skis, the opening 4 provided is of course also an opener for crown closures on bottles.

Claims

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Expectations

Ski and ski boot tool, in particular for closing and opening the closure latches of a ski boot, with an essentially elongated shape and a bordered opening formed in its one end face, which opening is delimited by an end cross bar with a relatively low material thickness, characterized in that the opening (4) is designed as a push-through opening and that at least the transverse web (5) is bent up to the end face (7). 2. Ski tool according to claim 1, characterized in that the cross bar (5) is bent approximately in the extension of the end-side opening edge (14), in particular angled by approximately 90 °.

.. Ski tool according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the outer surface (28) of the crossbar (5) is designed as a straight, flat surface, in particular as a sliding surface.

4. Ski tool according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the opening (4) has approximately the shape of an elongated rectangle, the narrow sides of which are provided in the longitudinal direction of the tool (1),

^r .. Ski tool according to one of claims 1 to 4, - characterized in that the outer edge (29) of the crossbar (5) is rectilinear.

Ski tool according to one of claims 1 to 5 ,. e g e n e z e i c h n e t that its longitudinal outer sides (10,12) to the upper end

(2) are arranged converging towards each other, and on the other, opposite the opening (4)

End (2) a screwdriver attachment (15) is provided.

O Pl, 7. Ski tool according to claim β, characterized in that an outer side (12) has a zigzag shape.

8. Ski tool according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that a closed loop (17) made of rubber-like material is attached to one end (2).

9. Ski tool according to one of claims 6 to 8, characterized in that a rectangular larger recess is provided in the one outside (10), the surfaces of which are designed as filing surfaces.

10. Ski tool according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that an approximately V-shaped or square-like (20) grinding device on the side facing away from the bending of the transverse web (5)

Tool surface (9) is firmly applied.

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