Abstract: This invention relates to a vacuum cleaner attachment for the purpose of simultaneously cleaning a plurality of slats of a Venetian blind and comprises: A molded body 20, a vertical handle 24, a tubular neck 22, having communication with the body and adapted to be connected to a vacuum cleaner hose (not shown), rectangularly shaped fingers 26 which have communication with the body and extend out horizontally from the side of the body opposite the handle, and each opposing finger face having apertures 44 on a longitudinal center axis, rectangularly shaped brush plates 38 having approximately the same lateral dimensions as the finger faces and having apertures 40 in registry with apertures on the opposing finger faces, brush plates slide on and off the finger faces by way of a channel 34 and lip structures 32 and small tabs 48 on the lip structure lock the brush plates in place, bristles 46 will be affixed to the brush plate faces and extend towards each other when locked in place on opposing finger faces.

Abstract: A door-closer hinge includes a first flap secured to a door, a second flap secured to a door frame, and an automatic closer as restored by a restoring spring and having a longitudinal casing secured to the second flap, in which a rotor vane fixed on a rotor having a needle passage formed in the rotor is operatively rotated with respect to a cylinder vane fixed inside a cylinder which is filled with a hydraulic oil and disposed around the rotor to thereby form a rotary-movement shock absorber for quickly opening a door when the oil is rotatably driven to contract the two vanes for quick flow of oil to the left, or for slowly closing the door when the oil is slowly returned to the right to expand the two vanes to allow oil flow merely through the smaller needle passage in the rotor.

Abstract: A portable, selectively lockable door stop having a pair of telescopingly fitted rods with door brace linkage engaging channels is disclosed. The invention provides an adjustable door stop that coacts with existing door brace linkage to prop the door open at any desired width. The channels are pivotally attached to the ends of the rods in a clevis fashion. A method of keeping a door open is also disclosed.

Abstract: First and second flaps (10, 12) are joined at a hinge joint formed by a hollow hinge pin (22) passing through alternating lug extensions (18, 20) of the first and second flaps (10, 12). A plurality of flow openings (24) in the hollow hinge pin (22) are provided for establishing fluid communication between the interior of the first flap (10) and the interior of the second flap (12).

Abstract: This invention discloses a tip out hinge specifically designed for use with a storage container located within a cabinet. The tip out hinge provides easy access to the contents of a storage container located within a cabinet. For example, the tip out hinge is used in a tip out storage container in a bathroom for clothing or bathroom items. It also provides access to a storage facility located behind a false front in a bathroom or kitchen. The tip out hinge permits the storage unit to tip forward from the cabinet, remain open until closing begins, remain closed even when bumped, provide a large opening for easy access to the storage container and will not interfere with the operation of any doors or drawers located below the tip out storage container.

Abstract: A hinge joint comprises a hinge leaf, a closure element, a knuckle bearing, a hinge bolt defining a hinge joint axis and pivotally mounting the closure element via the knuckle bearing, a hinge bearing having a base securable adjacent to an edge of an opening, the hinge bearing having legs between which the knuckle bearing is positioned and which carries the hinge bolt, the knuckle bearing having at least one first protrusion extending axially outwardly and arranged concentrically relative to the hinge bolt, one of the legs having an axially inwardly extending protrusion which axially overlaps the first protrusion, the hinge leaf together with the closure element being arranged so that it can be removed from the hinge bearing only after removal of the hinge bolt and after opening the closure element through a predetermined pivot angle, the first protrusion being annular, the second protrusion being formed as an enclosing retainer of one of the legs and arranged radially outside of one of the first protrusions,

Abstract: In a poultry processing conveyor system a plurality of evisceration lines are fed from a single kill line by means of a rotary hock cutter transfer carousel.

Abstract: A shirred food casing stick with enhanced overall interpleat coherency is produced by imparting a rotational force to the stick as it is shirred, in a direction opposite to the rotational force imparted to the stick by the shirring means.

Abstract: The main purpose is to provide an electronic controlling apparatus for controlling the setting members for processing tools and guides of a fish processing machine, which apparatus is easy to handle and designed to guarantee a disturbance-free operation. To this end, there is provided a first module as central computer, a second module comprising a signal amplifier and adapting means, as well as third module designed as a computer periphery circuit. The third module comprises a control unit commonly forming memory, combinatorial and control means, as well as an input part and an output part, which are provided for signal decoupling, signal noise suppressing and signal processing. In particular, each module is designed in the form of a plate, the three plates being interconnected electrically and mechanically for forming a structural unit.

Abstract: A fiber bale opener includes a downwardly open housing adapted to be supported above fiber bales to be opened and accommodating an opening device having a width dimension. The opening device includes an opening roller oriented parallel to the width dimension and arranged for removing fiber tufts from upper bale surfaces and a suction duct through which fiber tufts detached from the bales by the opening roller are adapted to be removed by a suction air stream flowing therethrough. The suction duct has two transverse walls facing one another and being spaced from one another in a direction perpendicular to the width dimension. The transverse walls extend substantially over the entire width dimension and each has a lower terminus defining a zone with an upper bale face situated underneath the opening device during operation thereof. The zone is sealed for substantially preventing air from passing therethrough along the width dimension of the opening device.

Abstract: A hose band is formed into a ring, in order to be wrapped around a hose. When the band is wrapped around the hose, its end portions are superposed, one overlying the other. Projections are formed on the underlying end portion, in order to be fitted into the holes made in the overlying end portion. A tightening lug is included in the overlying end portion of the band. The lug comprises a pair of outwardly protruding legs set apart in the lengthwise direction of the band, and a main section connecting the upper ends of the legs and plastically bent in such a way that the portion, which is the center as viewed in the widthwise direction, protrudes inwardly, and both end portions protrude outwardly.

Abstract: End terminating means (30,32) for a zip fastener (10), which comprises two strips of material (12,14) adapted to be releasably secured together, is in the form of a receptacle (FIG. 2a) having an open end through which adjacent ends of the strips are inserted. The receptacle has a dove-tailed lid (42) pivoted above an opening in the receptacle and incorporating barbs (48,50) adapted to hook into the strips (12,14) to retain them in the receptacle. The lid engages the edges of the opening to lock it in the closed position.

Abstract: An endless fibrous web is to be needled from both sides by needling means for piercing the web in only one direction. For that purpose the web is needled in the form of a twisted endless web, which is known as a Mobius web and has been formed in that the two ends of a finite length of the web have been rotated through 180.degree. relative to each other about the longitudinal axis of the web and have then been joined.

Abstract: Crimping of cables of synthetic fiber is performed by an arrangement in which a cable is supplied by rotatable compression rolls with a high speed into a compression chamber, and a cooling air is supplied into the compression chamber, wherein water is added to the cooling air in form of fine droplets.

Abstract: Capacitor elements having an ultra thin dielectric layer are made by the method of cutting a metal-deposited polyethylene terephthalate laminated film into a predetermined width, and then separating a metal-deposited polyethylene terephthalate film from the cut laminated film and successively forming the separated metal-deposited polyethylene terephthalate film into a coil. The metal-deposited polyethylene terephthalate laminated film is composed of an oriented ultra thin polyethylene terephthalate film having a thickness of 0.2 to 2.0 .mu.m, on one surface of which a metal layer is formed by vacuum deposition and on the other surface of which a propylene copolymer support film is bonded with an adhesive force of 0.1 to 2.0 g/cm.

Abstract: Improved paster rollers for use in splicing paper webs include a rigid core; a compressible intermediate porous layer surrounding said core; and, a coating of silicone elastomer on the walls of the cells of the outer porous surface of said intermediate layer. Methods of preparing the paster rollers also are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for inserting the gerotor oil pump assembly into the housing of an engine. The present invention provides a first jaw and a second jaw which allow the gear assembly to be picked up by the robot or the like while at the same time decreasing the possibility of lock up between the primary outer and secondary inner gears of the gerotor assembly.

Abstract: A replacement station includes an old split-pin-assembly (OSPA) removal stand and a new split-pin-assembly (NSPA) installation stand. The removal stand includes a saw and a drill. With the guide tube to which the OSPA is secured in the removal stand, the saw severs each OSPA below the flange which engages the base of the lower counterbore in the lower guide tube (LGT) separating the OSPA into a pin fragment and a second fragment including the flange and the remainder of the split-pin with the nut threaded into it. The second fragment remains secured to the LGT after the sawing operation. The guide tube is rotated so that the drill is coaxial with the shank of the pin of the second fragment. The second fragment is separated into a third fragment including the flange and a fourth fragment including the remainder of the pin and the nut both removable from the LGT. The installation stand has NSPA blades in which the new split pins are mounted. The LGT sans the OSPA's is positioned on the installation stand.

Abstract: A shearbar attachment and adjustment apparatus is adapted to apply clamping forces to a shearbar in a forage harvester at first locations on opposite ends of the shearbar. The clamping forces prevent the shearbar from backing away from a rotary cutterhead in the forage harvester during chopping of crop material by passing cutting edges of knives on the periphery of the cutterhead close to the cutting edge of the shearbar. Also, the apparatus is adjustable to apply pulling forces on the shearbar at second locations on its opposite ends which are offset inwardly from the first locations. Application of pulling forces at these inward locations relative to the outward locations of the clamping forces tends to compensate for the effect of the convex shape of the shearbar cutting edge by causing bowing of the shearbar at the second locations to provide a more uniform clearance between the cutting edge of the shearbar and the cutting edges of the cutterhead knives.

Abstract: A tank has an upper shell and a lower shell. The shells have flanges at their periphery which are seam-welded to form a tank. A plurality of projections formed on the flange of the upper shell and a plurality of recesses formed on the flange of the lower shell fit together thereby to prevent the flanges from displacing each other when they are seam-welded. Also, a method for making the tank is disclosed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing spring assemblies, in which a spring is fixed to a hole formed in a linear or an annular metal plate by compressing side edges of the plate to collapse the hole after inserting an end of the spring therethrough. The process is simple, and the obtained spring assemblies have excellent durability because there are not any projecting parts for installing springs on the metal plate, which are otherwise a factor in fatigue failure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing spring assemblies, in which a spring is fixed to a hole formed in a linear or an annular metal plate by compressing side edges of the plate to collapse the hole after inserting an end of the spring therethrough. The process is simple, and the obtained spring assemblies have excellent durability because there are not any projecting parts for installing springs on the metal plate, which are otherwise a factor in fatigue failure.

Abstract: Universal press to process and/or for the application of small items such as stamping, drilling, die-punching, button-holing, riveting and similar operations, including: a base (19); a "C"-shaped structure (1) fixed to the said base; a hollow, vertical cylindrical body (2), to which the control device (4) is fixed and the support (9) of the moving tool (10), arranged at the end of the upper arm of the structure (1) and carriage (14), or (15) to support the fixed tool holders (12) complete with guides which match the coherent vertical guides (16) of the lower arm.

Abstract: It is convenient to supply electrical or electronic components for placement on tapes; however it has proved difficult to satisfactorily handle tapes for carrying large components. Use of wide tapes to feed larger components is facilitated by using a drive belt (48) to rotate at a sprocket wheel (44) to feed the tape (38,40), a drive wheel (52) to move the belt, and drive means conveniently a ratchet wheel to cause the drive wheel (52) to rotate through a predetermined angle to feed the tape a distance equal to the spacing between the components on the tape. Wide tape can conveniently be disposed of after unloading by using means (88,90) for severing the tape (38) immediately downstream of an unloading position, and means for collecting the severed tape preferably comprising a duct (84) through which a current of air flows to carry the severed tape to a remote receptacle (85).

Abstract: In order to increase the efficiency of solar cells, a monolithic stacked device is constructed comprising a plurality of solar sub-cells adjusted for different bands of radiation. The interconnection between these sub-cells has been a significant technical problem. The invention provides an interconnection which is a thin layer of high ohmic conductance material formed between the sub-cells. Such a layer tends to form beads which serve as a shorting interconnect while passing a large fraction of the radiation to the lower sub-cells and permitting lattice-matching between the sub-cells to be preserved.

Abstract: A discoidal, flat coil armature for a flat disc motor is formed by winding coils of wire on mutually spaced inner and outer ring structures. The inner ring structure surrounds a commutator body having segments with tangs. Automatic apparatus, including a rotating flier, a preform clamp and rotator, and a wire guide assembly, winds the coils and makes coil terminal connections to the commutator tangs before, during, and after the winding of the coils. The coils are tightly wound on the ring structures so that they form, along with the ring structures and the commutator body, an armature preform having a self-supporting shape. The parts of the finished preform are bonded together and to an armature shaft by a matrix of resinous material.

Abstract: This invention pertains to gauge apparatus for measuring liquid levels comprising an elongated electrical sensor adapted to be arranged in upright position while immersed so constructed as to have an electrical resistance which may be varied. The sensor is fabricated by providing a rigid elongated support and securing an elongated array of resistors thereto. A flexible layer of conductive material is then applied to the surface of a sheet of flexible insulated material after which the sheet is secured to the support with the conductive material facing the resistors. After the sheet is secured to the support, it is heated, whereby the sheet will return to a position in spaced relation from the resistors. Further, an elongated planar magnet is secured to the rigid support on the side facing the sheet. The magnet is polarized such that the surface facing the sheet has elongated contiguous opposite poles joined along a straight line. The array of resistors is mounted on the magnet surface.

Abstract: The assembly platform is provided with a heatable working surface allowing an equipping of printed circuit boards which can be temporarily mounted thereto. Individual devices or components, respectively, can be retrieved via a retrieving opening from a component storage rotary carousel including a plurality of compartments which components are placed thereafter on the printed circuit board. At a given time only one of the compartments is accessible. A heating chamber allows a preheating of the soldering paste of a setting of adhesives for mounted components prior to the soldering proper thereof. The equipped printed circuit board pretreated in the heating room is repositioned on the working surface for the final soldering. This assembly platform allows completing all equipping steps of the SMT-technique at one single operating station.

Abstract: A tool to extract an integrated circuit package from a socket with minimal damage to package or socket.

Abstract: A slide-fastener closing apparatus, for moving opposed stringers relative to a slider, includes upper and lower feed rollers coactive to move the stringers in either direction along a feed path, and an arrester normally urged to project into the feed path. After the stringers with the slider are supplied forwardly past the arrester, the two rollers are driven to move the stringers rearwardly so that the slider is caught by the arrester until the slide fastener is fully closed. Then the rollers are reversely driven to move the closed slide fastener forwardly for discharging.

Abstract: A single layer copper foil tape is provided having a center core and connected lead beams. Etched apertures are formed to separate adjacent lead beams and to form relatively high strength foil straps connecting edge portions of the foil tape and the center core. Score lines may be etched at the ends of each of the lead beams to form breakaway links at such ends. The inner ends of the lead beams are then bonded to a semiconductor die at its contact pad or bumps and the resultant subassembly aligned with inner ends of the fingers of a metal lead frame array or other set of external leads such as a pin grid array and the outer ends of the lead beams bonded to such fingers. At this point, all of the remaining portions of the foil tape are peeled or pulled off the assembly, the lead beams being separated at their breakaway links, leaving only the lead beams connecting the die and set of external leads intact.

Abstract: A method for heat sinking a TO-220 solid state device package includes the steps of mounting the device from a printed circuit board, mounting the board from a heat sink and providing an opening in the board. The device is oriented during mounting so that it overlies the opening with its heat sinking tab side facing toward the opening and its epoxy case side facing away from the opening. A bar of thermally conductive material is positioned between the heat sink and the heat sinking tab side of the package and extends through the opening. A layer of electrically insulative and thermally conductive material is interposed between the bar and the heat sinking tab side of the package. Aligned passageways are provided through a second bar of thermally conductive material, the layer of electrically insulative and thermally conductive material, the first bar and the heat sink.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a shaving cartridge for use with a razor handle having a pair of cartridge engaging shell rocker bearings biased toward one another each of which has at least one undercut rocker bearing for receiving the cartridge. The cartridge has at least one blade thereon and has curved under surfaces pivotal upon and relative to the rocker bearing surfaces of the cartridge engaging shell rocker bearings. At least one protrusion extends from the curved under surfaces of the cartridge and is positioned to engage the shell rocker bearing surfaces on the cartridge when the cartridge is introduced to the shell bearings of the handle to bar reverse insertion of the cartridge in the handle so that the shaving blade of the cartridge when rockably engaged within the grip of the shell bearings is in a shaving ready position every time avoiding accidental reversal of the cartridge and its cutting blades when positioned on the handle for shaving.

Abstract: A combination slicing and storing device for food products in block form wherein the food product is caused to descend by gravity within a tubular member mounted on a base such that a portion of the food product projects through an opening in the base and is supported on a recessed food support provided on a slice holder plate. The slice holder plate is operatively associated with a trigger member mounted on the base, being adapted for sliding movement with respect to the base upon manual actuation of the trigger member by a user of the device. Actuation of the trigger member causes a cutting member on the slice holder plate to be drawn through the projecting portion of food so as to create a slice of food product of uniform thickness. The slice is allowed to fall away from the device and onto a serving dish or plate by virtue of the fact that the food support has moved out of position beneath the food product.

Abstract: A cutting device for vegetation comprising a supporting structure, a rotary cutting head adapted to have at least one strand-like cutting element extending therefrom, a motor for rotating the cutting head, an elongated guard and an arm for coupling the guard to the supporting structure.

Abstract: In a device for trimming, cutting out and cutting wallpaper particularly wallpaper of any kind which has just been applied, a knife carrying out upward and downward movements and a stationary resiliently resting knife with specially formed cutting edges are installed in a multipart housing. Furthermore, in this wallpaper cutting device the two knives projecting from the housing are effectively and safely protected and covered by a covering part connected to a trigger part. For the substitution of worn out and used up parts, as knives and batteries, the housing parts of the easily, without difficulty manageable wallpaper cutting device can be easily separated from each other without the use of additional tools.

Abstract: A pen printer for performing drawing with a detachably held pen comprises a pen holder operation mechanism for moving a pen holder detachably holding the pen between a pen attaching position, where the pen is attached to or detached from the pen holder, and a home position, where drawing is started or ended, and for moving the pen holder from the home position for drawing a desired sign or figure according to a pattern corresponding to the desired sign or figure and causing the pen holder to return to the home position, a support member for supporting the pen holder operation mechanism to be movable in all directions, a pen seat, mounted on the support member, for receiving a tip of the pen held by the pen holder, pen attaching position reference point display marks, mounted on the pen seat, for displaying a pen attaching position reference point for the pen tip of the pen held by the pen holder, and pen holder operation mechanism moving screws for moving the pen holder operation mechanism in all directions s

Abstract: A compact extra-length tape measuring device with capacity for four hundred foot measurement, sized so that no dimesion exceeds six inches, uses a narrow thin tape suitably marked with measuring indicia and held to be unwound and rewound on a space-saving offset storage spool. Rotation of the spool during tape withdrawal tightens a coiled flat spring through a gear reduction drive; the tape, when released, is automatically rewound on the spool by action of the unwinding spring. A lock-release mechanism and a tape-viewing magnifying window also may be provided.

Abstract: An instrument for monitoring the direction of a borehole comprises an elongate casing having its longitudinal axis coincident, in use, with the axis of the borehole, an outer gimbal pivotally mounted within the casing with its pivot axis coincident with the longitudinal axis of the casing, a gyroscope unit mounted in the outer gimbal, a torque motor and a gravity sensor unit. At the beginning of a run the instrument is positioned at the mouth of the borehole. The rate of rotation about an axis transverse to the outer gimbal axis is then sensed by the gyroscope unit, and the outer gimbal is slewed by the torque motor in dependence on the sensed rate so as to align the transverse axis along an East/West direction. The instrument is then moved along the borehole and the rate of rotation about the outer gimbal axis is continually sensed by the gyroscope unit, the outer gimbal being torqued by the motor in dependence on the sensed rate to stabilize the outer gimbal about its axis.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring linear displacement having three slides movable along orthogonal axes. Two slides each having a scale for measuring linear displacement which extends substantially parallel to the path of movement of its associated slide. The third slide has a movable scale for measuring linear displacement, with a portion extending at substantially a right angle to the path of movement of the third slide, so that the linear displacement along all three axes can be viewed and read on all three scales from the same position and in subtantially the same sighting direction.

Abstract: An orthopedic pillow having a block made of deformable material, the block having a substantially quadrilateral perimeter, an upper surface of the block having a substantially airfoil-shaped reverse curved surface, and a groove being provided in the upper surface, the groove being sized and adapted to accommodate the cervical vertebrae of a user of the orthopedic pillow. A sizing kit for determining an appropriate size of orthopedic pillow for use by a patient is also described.

Abstract: A hybrid oven for drying a coating on a continuous web is disclosed, including a chamber, a plenum for collecting and delivering heated air at high velocity adjacent said chamber, a plurality of air impingement nozzles interconnecting said plenum and said chamber and directing heating air from the plenum to the web being dried, and one or more controllable infra-red heaters disposed between said air nozzles including at least one infra-red element, a sensor for providing a control signal relative to temperature and controller means for controlling power to the infra-red element. The sensor senses that the infra-red element is operating at less than a predetermined temperature and is providing less than a required infra-red output, whereby the controller provides a higher voltage until the predetermined infra-red output is reached.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing water from sludge waste material is provided. A layer of sludge is disposed upon an endless screen belt which is in turn dragged across a heated plate such that water in the sludge is evaporated and escapes from the sludge as steam. The endless screen is formed by a chain link belt which provides a plurality of discrete containers for small volumes of the sludge. The sludge may also be preheated just prior to drying by the injection of hot air columns into the sludge, such that the sludge is heated and agitated. The steam escaping from the drying sludge is directed into a heat exchanger which in turn heats the preheating air. Waste gases from a heating station are returned to the burner at the heating station to oxidize foul smelling chemicals and then reduce the odors generated by a sludge drying operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for heat exchange between gas and fine-grained material containing a plurality of cyclone-like separators which are arranged one above the other and have bent central axes. Such a heat exchanger is distinguished by a particularly compact construction and a good separating capacity of the individual separators.

Abstract: A surface mountable device for drying bathers has an enclosed, vertically or horizontally oriented chamber. An elongated air passageway is located on the front of the chamber. Means for providing drying air is attached to one end of the chamber. The chamber has cross sections which diminish from the end attached to the means for providing drying air to the opposite end. The cover has attachment means for attaching the device to a desired surface, obviating the necessity for recessing the device in the surface.

Abstract: There is disclosed a resilient spring and lever support for an inner sole of a shoe which can be used in combination with a new foot warmer mechanism, or can be used as an orthopedic foot support. The preferred embodiment is a foot warmer mechanism which has a pair of sole plates in rubbing frictional contact with the upper sole plate pivotally secured at the toe of the shoe and the lower sole plate supported by a lever arm located near the heel of the shoe. A resilient spring is provided at the heel of the shoe to bias the pair of plates upwardly, and one or more springs can also be provided at intermediate positions. The pair of plates is moved down and up by the applied weight of the wearer and the countering bias of the spring. As the sole plates are moved, they slide against each other, generating heat by friction, to warm the weater's foot. The mechanism can be constructed in the shoe or can be a separate assembly that can be inserted into a shoe.

Abstract: A custom molded insole for supporting the human foot in a ski boot or other footwear is disclosed. The insole is a one-piece, thin, contoured blank of semi-rigid, bendable, resilient material molded to include the complete detail of the full plantar surface of a foot. The insole provides a four-point contact with a supporting surface or ski boot at the heel, great toe, and at least two spaced metatarsal heads to provide natural balance and proper dynamic positioning of the foot and immediate energy transfer between the foot and various footwear such as a boot/ski when skiing.Also disclosed is the method for making the custom insole including forming a negative impression of the plantar surface in an impression retaining material by pressing the foot into the material while bearing at least a portion of the body weight on that foot with the impression material firmly supported on a rigid surface.

Abstract: An adjustable ladies shoe heel protector which has a body (20) of thermoplastic material in the shape of the heel portion of a shoe. Adjustment is provided by an overlapping joint (32) having pressure sensitive adhesive (34) that is formed and joined to match the exact configuration of a specific shoe. The height of a given heel is mated by trimming the heel portion to the appropriate length using performations (40) as a guide. An integral annealed metal tab (36) is bent over the counter of the shoe holding the protector in place while the user is driving a motor vehicle, thereby preventing scuffing of the shoe. The adjustment in size and convenience of attachment overcomes the problem heretofore encountered with heel protectors.

Abstract: An athletic shoe generally has a plurality of strips of an inextensible material, such as graphite, which extend from the lace area rearwardly over the shoe exterior and into a non-ground contacting area of a laminated sole. The weight of the wearer also bears upon the strip sole ends and aids in retarding movement thereof. The shoe has good forward as well as lateral stability.

Abstract: A ski boot has a tongue part forwardly deflectable relative to the shank part connected to the sole of the boot, as the skier's lower legs move in the leaning forward direction. The deflectability of the tongue part can be limited by means of a limiting device consisting of laterally arranged limiting arrangements. By means of actuating elements, the limiting arrangements can be adjusted to different distances of deflection, permitting a more or less leaning forward stance depending on the needs of the skier. A ski boot with such a limiting device permits the skier to effortlessly adjust the degree of limitation in the leaning forward position in any desired way.