Patent ID: 6226899
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
A snowshoe, comprising:a nose having a pair of rail-receiving aft portions,a separately formed tail, having a pair of rail-receiving forward portions,a pair of spaced apart rails, formed separately from the nose and tail, each assembled and secured in a permanent attachment to a rail-receiving aft portion of the nose and to a rail-receiving forward portion of the tail,a stretched deck membrane positioned to be under a user's heel and secured to the two rails at left and right sides of the deck membrane, the membrane providing a continuous, non-open deck surface from rail to rail, the deck membrane including an upper layer and a lower reinforcing layer, the lower reinforcing layer being heat bonded at least along portions of its periphery to the upper layer, and a heel cleat secured to the flexible deck membrane, having a pair of downwardly facing serrated claw portions extending through slits in the lower reinforcing membrane layer,boot attachment means on the snowshoe forward of the deck membrane, with means for engagement with a user's boot, anda front claw below and secured to the boot attachment means.