Patent ID: 6196570
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
A boot-retaining apparatus for a releasable ski binding for retaining the toe region of a ski boot on a ski, said apparatus comprising:boot-retaining means for supporting an end of the ski boot against movement upwards, sideways and longitudinally of the boot, said boot-retaining means being movable counter to a restoring force reacting to forces applied to said boot-retaining means, and for releasing the boot in the sideways and upward directions when a predetermined range of elasticity is exceeded; andwherein said boot-retaining means is increasingly movable upwardly relative to an abutment means in response to the sideways movement of said boot-retaining means relative to the boot in the binding or relative to the ski; said abutment means counters upward movement of said boot-retaining means and is generally transversely immovable.