Patent ID: 6076848
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: A43C,A63C

Abstract:
A device for connecting a boot adapted to be attached to a glide board for snowboarding by means of at least one strap located in an instep zone of the boot, said strap comprising:a relatively flexible and deformable inner padding element directed towards the boot, wherein the padding element of the strap includes a structural arrangement configured and positioned for distributing the tightening pressure exerted by strap on the instep of the boot, so as to obtain a central pressure corresponding to the zone of the big toe levator tendon, that is less than lateral pressures exerted on either side of the big toe levator tendon, wherein the pressure distribution arrangement of the strap on the padding element comprises a central hollowed space, demarcated laterally by two lateral projecting shapes arranged juttingly on either side of said central space, so as to constitute a housing for the tendon of the big toe.