Patent ID: 6435537
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: A63C

Abstract:
A system for binding a shoe to a sports gear, said binding system comprising:a fixing device to be fixed on the sports gear and comprising a front stop, adapted to cooperate with a front end of a shoe, and a catch, adapted to cooperate with an associated catching mechanism arranged behind a front end of a sole of the shoe and exerting on the sole a tension force directed towards said stop; said catch being anchored on said fixing device by an anchoring mechanism located rearward of said front stop, said anchoring mechanism providing a journal connection between the catch and the device, to thereby relieve said catch of bending forces relative to a non-journalled connection, said catch being movable between a raised position of the shoe and a lowered position of the shoe; and said binding system further comprising an elastic mechanism for applying an elastic force in a direction opposing movement of said elastic catch from said lowered position to said raised position, and said anchoring mechanism being longitudinally movable countering said elastic force of said elastic mechanism.