Patent ID: 7431323
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
1. A connecting device between a boot and a board-like type of sports equipment, comprising a toe or front binding fixture associable with the tip of the boot, and a heel or rear binding fixture associable with the heel area of the boot, each of said binding fixtures having a sole holder adapted for engaging the boot, between which the boot is clamping with a pre-tensioning force, such force being applicable via a tension spring; a release device for the sole holder arranged between the sole holder and the bearing block of the toe and heel binding fixtures, said bearing block being arranged fixed on the ski; and with a joint arrangement arranged between the sole holder and the bearing block fixed on the ski for rotationally supporting said sole holders relative to one another in at least two three-dimensional directions extending perpendicularly to one another, whereof one of said directions is aligned vertically relative to a support surface of the bearing block for supporting the latter on the board-like type of sports equipment, wherein a joint arrangement is formed by at least one ball-and-socket joint arranged between the bearing block and the sole holder or at least one sole holder component.