Patent ID: 9573043
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A63C

Claim:
1. A boot binding and interface system, said system for securing a rider's boots to a splitboard, the splitboard having a pair of conjoinable ski members, the ski members when conjoined together defining a splitboard ride mode and when used separately defining a ski tour mode, said system comprising: a) a pair of boot bindings; b) a ski tour interface that comprises a pair of toe pivot brackets affixed one per ski member for mounting said boot bindings in ski tour mode, each said toe pivot bracket having a pair of toe pivot ears, each said toe pivot ear having two sides defined by an inside face and an outside face, each said toe pivot ear having a toe pivot hole coaxially defined therethrough, said toe pivot holes defining a toe pivot axis crosswise through said toe pivot ears; wherein said boot bindings comprise each a boot binding baseplate having a heel end, a medial side, a lateral side, and a pair of nose members disposed at a toe end thereof, one nose member disposed medially and one nose member disposed laterally, each said nose members having two sides defined by an inside face and an outside face, and a pair of pintle pins disposed one per nose member, such that said pintle pins are disposed coaxially on said toe pivot axis proximate to said toe end; and, further wherein each said pintle pin is configured to insert by a single side motion into said toe pivot holes such that a) a first pintle pin inserts from an inside face of a first toe pivot ear and a second pintle pin inserts from an outside face of a second toe pivot ear; or, b) a first pintle pin inserts from an outside face of said first toe pivot ear and a second pintle pin inserts from an inside face of said second toe pivot ear.