Abstract: Rear holding element for a ski boot comprising a heel grip (11), a lever (6) and a fitting pedal (7), characterized in that the fitting pedal (7) is mobile relative to the heel grip (11).

Abstract: A toe piece for a device for fastening a boot on a sliding board, having a base (130; 3) intended to be fixed to the sliding board, two lateral jaws (101; 8, 9), each mounted to be rotationally mobile on the base (130; 3) about a substantially vertical rotation axis (103; 10, 11), so as to occupy a closed position to hold a boot and a separated position to release or receive a boot, and a pusher (110; 35) having two lateral trig surfaces (114; 24, 25) each cooperating with a respective ramp (104; 22, 23) of each jaw (101; 8, 9), this pusher being linked to the base by a trig spring (112; 36), and two links (120; 28, 29) each linked to a jaw by a first lateral axis (123; 14, 15) and linked together by at least one central axis (125; 32).

Abstract: Rear holding element for a ski boot comprising a heel grip (11), a lever (6) and a fitting pedal (7), characterized in that the fitting pedal (7) is mobile relative to the heel grip (11).

Abstract: boot on a sliding board, having a base (130; 3) intended to be fixed to the sliding board, two lateral jaws (101; 8, 9), each mounted to be rotationally mobile on the base (130; 3) about a substantially vertical rotation axis (103; 10, 11), so as to occupy a closed position to hold a boot and a separated position to release or receive a boot, and a pusher (110; 35) having two lateral trig surfaces (114; 24, 25) each cooperating with a respective ramp (104; 22, 23) of each jaw (101; 8, 9), this pusher (110; 35) being linked to the base (130; 3) by a trig spring (112; 36) and two links (120; 28, 29) each linked to a jaw (101) by a first lateral axis (123; 14, 15) and linked together by at least one central axis (125; 32).

Abstract: A quick release for a bicycle has at least one eccentric cam provided with a bearing bore by which the cam is rotatably mounted on a shaft, which is fitted to a component, which can be secured with the aid of the eccentric cam to a bicycle. The eccentric cam can be rotated by a hand lever into a clamping position and can be released from the latter by rotation in the opposite direction. The hand lever is constructed as a lever arm which is substantially U-shaped. The two free ends of the legs of the U-shaped lever arm are, in each case, arranged in a lever arm fixing bore in the eccentric cam and have a channel, which engages around the shaft, through which the level arm is fixed in the eccentric cam.

Abstract: A device for releasably holding the boot support of a cross-country ski binding against pivotal movement relative to the ski has a retainer which is mounted on two pairs of mutually inclined links. The lower ends of the links are pivoted to the ski and the upper ends of the links are pivoted to spaced-apart portions of the retainer so as to compel the latter to move along a path which is at least substantially parallel to the upper side of the ski between an operative front end position and an inoperative rear end or retracted position. The retainer can be moved between such positions by a combination of a link which is directly pivoted to the rear part of the retainer and a lever which is fulcrumed on the ski and whose forwardly extending arm is articulately connected to the rear end of the link. The rearwardly extending arm of the lever can be pivoted by hand or by the tip of a ski pole in order to move the retainer to the operative position.

Abstract: The ski binding comprises a toe iron 1 and a rear soleholding device 2. The toe iron is shiftable between a position for ski touring and a position for downhill skiing. A U-shaped bearing bracket 7 and a plug-in pivot 12 are provided. By the two legs 8 and 9 of the bearing bracket the pivot is spaced from the ski a distance which somewhat exceeds the thickness of the sole of the boot. As a result, the plug-in pivot 12 can be used as a holding-down member and as an abutment. The edge portion of the sole is adapted to extend under the plug-in pivot and to be forced against the plug-in pivot 12 by the rear soleholding device. The rear soleholding device comprises a holding-down member 3 for effecting a release in a vertical direction and also comprises a slide 5 for effecting a release in a lateral direction under an overload. In that position the ski binding is used as a downhill binding.

Abstract: A ski binding includes a retainer for confining and supporting a ski boot. The retainer is pivotally mounted on a ski via a pivot located near the front of the binding. The retainer has a plate which is positioned near the front of the binding and serves to support a ski boot. The plate has a recess which accommodates a pair of springs. One end of each spring bears against a wall of the recess while the other end of each spring bears against a rod which extends into the recess. The end of the rod which is located outside of the recess is secured to a pivot which is located above or below the pivot for the retainer. The arrangement is such that the springs are stressed in tension or compression as the retainer is pivoted away from the ski thereby exerting a restoring moment on the retainer. The arrangement makes it possible to maintain the restoring moment essentially constant over the angular range which occurs during use. The springs are preferably stressed in compression in order to obtain increased life.

Abstract: A ski has a safety binding which includes a support for a ski boot. The support carries retainers for the toe and heel of the boot and is pivotable about an axis extending transversely of the ski so that the ski boot may be swung away from the ski during skiing. A brake for the ski is mounted on the support and is arranged to be kept in an inoperative or non-braking position by the pressure of the ski boot. The brake is resiliently urged towards its operative or braking position and automatically moves to this position when the pressure of the ski boot is released. The ski is thus braked regardless of whether the boot is removed from the binding intentionally or unintentionally.

Abstract: In a fastening device for supporting brackets or luggage racks for automotive vehicles, the tensioning screw which biases the clamping claw against the supporting foot and the roof gutter is overlapped by a protecting cap which is non-separably connected with the clamping claw. The protecting cap has a mounting aperture through which the tensioning screw can be actuated with a tool. The mounting aperture can be closed by a locking device which can be actuated by a key and closes the mounting aperture only in the locking position.

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.