Patent ID: 7036842
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
1. A retaining system having a flat surface for front and rear boot-retaining units cooperating with respective front and rear regions of a boot, said system mountable on the upper surface of a ski or a snowboard or integrally recessable in a ski or a snowboard, said system comprising: a guideway on the ski or snowboard, said guideway selected from one of a single part guideway and a multiple part guideway; front and rear base parts displaceable longitudinally in said guideway, said base parts accommodating or securing the respective front and rear boot-retaining units; connecting rods fastenable to the base parts, said rods having recesses and elevations and said rods being essentially parallel to the guideway and extending in the direction of the respectively other base part; and a fixing device being laterally movable in a linear path and having elevations and recesses, wherein: said elevations and recesses of said fixing device engage said recesses and elevations of said connecting rods, releasably locking the connecting rods at the same time to the ski or snowboard with horizontal relative movement approximately parallel to the top side of the ski or of the snowboard.