Patents Assigned to Steven Beck
  • Patent number: 5813688
    Abstract: A snowboard binding is disclosed having a mounting frame for rigid attachment to a snowboard. The frame has upstanding opposite end portions between which a rocker plate is mounted on a shaft for rocking movement about a rocker axis generally parallel to the top surface of a snowboard and the longitudinal axis of a boot mounted in the binding. The rocker plate carries a bail for securing a boot to the binding. Elastomeric blocks on opposite sides of the mounting frame engage the underside of the rocker plate on opposite sides of the rocker axis to control and limit the extent of rocking movement permitted about the rocker axis. Two such bindings mount each boot, one at the toe and the other at the heel, to a snowboard, with the rocker axes of the two bindings coincident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Steven Beck
    Inventor: Kib Dacklin