Patent ID: 7690085

Claim:
A pole grip for attaching to a pole having a pole axis, of the type comprising walking sticks, trekking poles, downhill ski poles, cross-country ski poles and Nordic walking poles, and for releasably coupling to a hand retaining device, such as a hand strap or glove, via a loop structure that is loop-like, ring-like or eyelet-like on said hand retaining device, comprising: a grip body having a hand side, a top region and a bottom region, with a hole extending from the bottom region along the pole axis and being sized to receive a pole end, a hook-like device for fastening a hand-retaining device, the hook-like device being disposed in the top region of the grip body on the hand side, the hook-like device comprising a retaining peg having a first end secured to the grip body and a second free end, and being oriented essentially parallel to the pole axis but being offset on the hand side away from the grip body with the second free end forming an introduction slot with the grip body, wherein a cross section of the peg is sized to receive the loop structure of a hand retaining device and the depth of the introduction slot is greater than a width and a thickness of the retaining peg, displaceable or rotatable latching-in means disposed adjacent the hook-like device such that the loop structure of a hand retaining device, when pushed onto the free end of the hook-like device, is secured onto the hook-like device with a self latching action, and an elastically biased arresting block having a latching-in restraining nose, the arresting block being accommodated in a recess formed in the top region of the grip body, wherein the arresting block as a whole is, or the restraining nose arranged therein is, biased against the hook-like device via a resiliently elastic element, and wherein the arresting block is coupled to at least one activating button and the arresting block or the restraining nose is moveable against the force of the resiliently elastic element by manual activation of the button, whereby the self latching mechanism is released.