Salomon S.a.

Dominique Deville

Maurice Legrand

Vincent Forest

Jacques Quellais

Jacques Lacroix

Herve Andrevon

The invention concerns a gliding board, especially a snowboard, which is intended to support both boots of a skier. The board includes a base structure of which at least the front end is turned up to form the shovel. It further has a central zone with two mounting zones for the binding elements, a front zone, and a rear zone. The board has, at least in one of the front or rear zones, a long reinforcement shaped according to the length and width of the zone. The reinforcement extends from the vicinity of the end of the front or rear zone to at least the vicinity of the mounting zone located near the zone.

Snowboard

An assembly adapted for use in skiing, particularly alternating steps skiing. The assembly includes in particular a ski and an assembly for increasing the rigidity in flexion of the ski, in a manner so as to preserve or increase the lifting in the vertical direction of the lower surface of the ski, at least in a portion of the gripping zone, during the lowering of the heel of the foot. This assembly includes in particular a plate, positioned above the upper surface and maintained by linkage elements.

Device for cross country ski and ski equipped with such a device

Ski shaped like an elongated beam, comprising a lower slide face bounded laterally by two lower edges, an upper face bounded laterally by two upper edges, and two lateral faces, the ski being constituted by a central part extended toward the front by a front part ending, at its front end, by the tip and extended toward the rear by a rear part ending, at its rear end, in the heel-piece. The front part is constituted by a front section connected to the central part by a front intermediate connection section, while this rear part is formed by a rear section connected to the central part by a rear intermediate connection section. The two upper edges of the upper surface are parallel in the central part, while one of the two front or rear section is such that, in this area, first, the lateral faces are inclined so as to converge upward, and second, the upper surface is narrower than it is in the central part and has a uniform width.

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Annecy le Vieux, France

Dominique Deville