Patent ID: 7823905

Claim:
A pair of boot bindings, each binding of said pair comprising a box girder having a top plate with a top surface, a bottom plate with a bottom surface and outside lower edges, a medial web member, a lateral web member, a heel end and a toe end, wherein: a) said bottom plate comprises a channel with parallel inside flanges for receiving and grippingly conjoining said box girder to a snowboard mounting block assembly affixed to a splitboard; b) said medial and lateral web members underlie said top plate and join said top plate to said bottom plate; c) said medial and lateral web members each comprise a transverse coaxial hole on a pivot axis proximate to said toe end, said transverse coaxial hole for receiving an insertable toe pivot pin; d) said medial and lateral web members have each a lateral face and a medial face dimensionally separated by a lateral-to-medial width, said width having a maximum proximate to said toe end and tapered to a minimum posteriorly from said toe end, and a superior aspect and an inferior aspect dimensionally separated by a superior-to-inferior height, said height having a maximum proximate to said toe end and sloping to a minimum posteriorly from said toe end; and e) said top surface of said box girder is sloped and tapered, said slope and taper for contactingly supporting the underside contour of a boot sole of a soft boot.