Patent ID: 6056310
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
An arrangement for securing a snowboard or ski to a boot of the snowboarder or skier, comprising a transmission device (50; 100) which transmits forces from the boot (6) into a narrowest region (5) of a width of the snowboard or ski (1),the transmission device (50; 100) having an elongate base plate (53; 101) on which there is fitted a binding (11, 12) for fastening the boot (6), the transmission device (100) further comprising two spacer pieces (131, 132) which are engaged to the base place (101) and to the ski body (1), the spacer pieces (131, 132) being adjustably engaged in a central region of the base plate (101) for longitudinal movement relative to the base plate, and being spaced apart from one another by a distance (F) and from a center of the base plate (101),wherein the base plate (101) has a plate portion (102) and a plurality of ribs (103, 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108) which project downward from the plate portion, the plurality of ribs (103 to (108) extending in the longitudinal direction of the base plate (101), sides of the spacer pieces (131, 132) being engaged to two outermost ribs (103, 108) of said plurality of ribs, and an outer side of each of said spacer pieces (131 or 132) facing an upper side of the ski body (1).