Patent ID: 6131939
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
In a snow ski of the type having separately constructed upper and lower elongate ski sections and in which the lower ski section includes top and bottom surfaces and a ski tip end and a ski tail end, and in which the upper ski section includes a ski boot fixation area intermediate elongate extent and having a lower surface which overlies in opposed relationship at a preselected location the top surface of said lower ski section between said ski tip and said ski tail, the improvement comprising at least one longitudinally extending slide rail which is fixedly and non-movably attached to and projects outwardly from and along one of said opposed top and lower surfaces and a corresponding longitudinally extending slide rail receiving channel projecting inwardly from and along the other of said opposed top and lower surfaces to permit sliding movement between said slide rail and said slide rail receiving channel, and to thereby permit said upper and lower ski sections to be slidingly interconnected, and means for fixedly attaching together at said ski boot fixation area said slidingly interconnected upper and lower ski sections when in said preselected location and to thereby permit relative sliding movement between said upper and lower ski sections along said slide rail when said snow ski is flexed longitudinally.