Patent ID: 7797858

Claim:
A snowshoe comprising: a binding for retaining a boot; a cross-piece whose ends are mounted laterally to the snowshoe itself, said ends being mounted via two couplings of two rings, namely a left coupling and a right coupling, each ring including a rectilinear branch and a curved branch, the curved mounting branch viewed from the end forming a “Z” for the ring of the right coupling and forming an “S” for the ring of the left coupling, so that in an initial position, the curved branches of each coupling are in rear reciprocal abutment, namely that the curved branch of the framework retaining ring defines a rear stop for the curved branch of the cross-piece end ring, so that at the time of lifting a heel of the boot attached to the cross-piece, the cross-piece and the boot pivot freely around a transverse axis until the curved branch of the framework retaining ring defines a forward stop for the curved branch of the cross-piece end ring.