Patent ID: 7249785

Claim:
A mechanism for braking a ski released from a sports boot, the ski having a runner surface and a top face, and for alternatively holding together a pair of said skis with facing runner surfaces, which comprises a bearing arrangement for a brake lever assembly attached to the top face of each ski, each brake lever assembly comprising a brake lever disposed substantially symmetrically with respect to a longitudinal center axis of the ski, the brake levers comprising operating arms and brake arms, the brake arms projecting from the bearing arrangement and being pivotal about a pivot axis by a stored energy source from an operation-ready position above the runner surface into a braking position below the runner surface, the operating arms extending from the bearing arrangment in a direction remote from the brake arms and being connected to an impact plate which can be depressed by the sole of the sports boot for movement with the impact plate, and the brake arms of the brake lever assemblies of the skis of the pair of skis intersecting for holding the skis together and having a catch mechanism for releasable connection of the brake arms, the catch mechanism comprising rows of catch elements of the same shape in each row on facing inner sides and remote outer sides of the brake arms, the catch elements being longitudinally aligned along the brake arms, and at least one catch element on the inner sides is movable into positive connection with at least one cooperating catch element on the outer sides to produce resistance counteracting undesired sliding apart of the intersecting brake arms.