Abstract: An anti-theft arrangement for rod-shaped objects, such as masts of sailing craft, includes a sleeve-shaped attachment and a clamping mechanism capable of clamping the attachment to a selected region of the rod-shaped object and to be locked in this operative position. The attachment, and with it also the object, is confined to a particular region of a support, such as a roof of a motor vehicle or a stationary part of a storage facility, either in that the attachment is situated intermediate two holding members each of which has a passage receiving and supporting object but having a diameter smaller than the largest transverse dimension of the attachment, or in that a chain or a similar elongated element is connected to the attachment and to the support and provided with a lock. The attachment may be of one-piece or may include two pivotally connected half shells connected with and pressed against one another by a buckle which is preferably fully received in a recess of the attachment in its closed position.

Abstract: A roof carrier for use on motor vehicles for supporting surfing boards or the like on the roof includes a supporting structure consisting of a plurality of interconnected transversely and longitudinally extending elements, at least one holder assemblable with the supporting structure and a sliding member mounted on one of the elements for displacement between a withdrawn and an engaging position and so acting on the holder in its engaging position as to maintain the holder in engagement with the one element. The sliding member is provided with a lug which secures the sliding member in its engaging position. The one element and the sliding member are provided with a slot-shaped apertures with register with one another in the withdrawn position to let an enlarged end portion of the holder to pass therethrough and the common cross section of which in the engaging position is smaller than the transverse dimension of the enlarged end portion to prevent extraction of the latter.

Abstract: A ski binding wherein the housing of a safety device is secured directly to the upper side of the ski or to a cross country frame whose front end portion is pivoted to the ski. The housing has and/or contains friction reducing balls, rollers, liners and/or edge portions which guide a carriage for the front or rear hold-down device. The carriage is movable relative to the housing in a horizontal plane at right angles to the skiing direction and is normally held in a neutral position, in which the front part of the sole or the heel of a ski boot rests on its top surface, by the lobe of an eccentric which is rotatable in the housing and is normally held against rotation from the angular position corresponding to neutral position of the carriage by a set of prestressed helical springs reacting against the housing and bearing against a retainer having a flat abutting a flat of the eccentric.

Abstract: A safety ski binding for cross-country and downhill skiing comprises a support plate which is pivoted at its front end on the ski and on which is provided a longitudinally slidable release plate. This plate is formed with a slot through which engages a pin in the support plate so as to permit this release plate to slide longitudinally and pivot on the ski. The front end of the release plate fits under a holddown and is provided itself with a toe holder. A spring-loaded heel clamp is engageable with the heel of a skiboot at the rear end of the support plate and presses the skiboot into the toe clamp. The rear end of the support plate can be locked down onto the ski for downhill skiing or released for pivoting of the support plate for cross-country skiing.

Abstract: A ski binding wherein a rectangular frame of the sole plate has a front portion which is coupled to the ski for pivotal movement about an axis extending at right angles to the skiing direction, and two parallel rearwardly extending arms portions of which extend between the upper and lower sections of a reinforcing device. The latter has two or more extensions with teeth received in selected notches of the arms to hold the reinforcing device at a desired distance from the pivot axis from the frame. One section of the reinforcing device has eyelets for the inwardly extending end portions of a pivotable yoke which engages the sole of a boot in front of the toe portion. The reinforcing device is adjusted lengthwise of the frame in dependency on thickness of the sole which is engaged by the yoke so as to insure that the foremost part of the boot is at or close to the pivot axis for the frame.

Abstract: A safety ski binding wherein the holding-down device for the heel of a ski boot constitutes the shorter arm of a two-armed bell crank lever the longer arm of which constitutes or carries one coupling element of a disengageable coupling. The other element of the coupling is provided on or forms part of a yoke which is pivotably mounted on a ski or on a part which is secured to the ski and is rigid with or movably supports a pivot member which defines for the bell crank lever an axis extending transversely of the skiing direction. The lever is pivotable about and is movable transversely of the axis of the pivot member, either with or relative to the pivot member. A helical expansion or compression spring is provided to oppose the disengagement of the coupling.