Salomon S.a.

Etablissements Francois Salomon Et Fils

Jean-Louis De Marchi

Michel Mabboux

Joseph Morell

Norbert Kopp

Roland Petrini

Fabrice Legon

Louis Benoit

Jean Paris

Bernard Nerrinck

Serge Pradier

A tool adapted for the extraction of a bearing from a wheel, especially from a skate of the in-line type, the wheel having a concentric cage, adapted to house at least one bearing having an outer frontal face. The bearing has an outer ring and an inner ring, spaced from one another via bearing members such as spherical balls. The tool has a manual gripping member or handle having an end that is extended by an end piece/tip having a portion in the shape of a truncated cone having a large base having a diameter towards the end of the gripping member, and a small free base, that is extended radially via a coaxial annular portion, in the shape of a collar, having a diameter, the diameters of the large base of the truncated cone and of the collar in radial projection, being at least smaller than the diameter of the inner ring of the bearing, wherein the end of the handle has at least one abutment surface, forming a shoulder that is greater than the diameter of the inner ring, the end being adapted to take support against the external frontal face of the bearing, the abutment surface being spaced from the collar by a distance corresponding to the positioning of the collar beyond the rear plane of the inner ring, so as to grip it by exerting a tipping motion on the handle and thereby on the end piece/tip.

Tool for extracting a bearing, especially intended for roller skates or

A ski boot for use with a ski having a top surface includes a rigid shell base having an upper wedged thereon at an orientation angle alpha with respect to the normal to a mating surface carried by a tenon on the toe end of the base. A separate sole portion is provided having a recess complementary to the tenon for slidably receiving the same. The recess of the portion is wedged on a ski at an orientation angle beta with respect to the top surface of the ski when the shell base is connected to the ski by a binding. The global wedging angle of the boot is the algebraic sum of the orientation angle alpha and the wedging angle beta.

Ski boot having an interchangeable sole portion for controlling global

A rear-entry ski boot whose rear piece (3) is provided with a flexibly connected guide device (15) constituting a tightening and closing system (8) which is always well positioned for gripping by the skier.

Ski boot

A ski boot including an upper journalled on a rigid shell base around a journal axis so that the upper can undergo forward flexion around the journal axis in response to forward flexion of the leg of the skier. Also provided is a flexion control device which elastically opposes forward flexion of the upper. The flexion control device is an elastic element positioned between the shell base and the upper and extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the boot. One end of the elastic element is attached to the shell base at a linkage point spaced from the journal axis. Another portion of the elastic element is attached to the lower edge of the cuff at a support point by a retention element. These attachments are such that during forward flexion: the distance from the journal axis to the support is invariant, the distance from the journal axis to the linkage point is invariant, and the distance from the support point to the linkage point varies.

Alpine ski boot

Ski boot with a device for transmitting flexion forces of the boot upper to the shell base, comprising a slide (8) movable in a transverse groove (7) at the lower forward edge of the cuff (5). The slide is adjustable through the intermediary of a push element (10) which causes displacement of a lock (12) in a rotational movement about an axis (30) perpendicular to the direction of displacement of the push element.

A ski boot including an upper journalled on rigid shell base around a journal axis so that the upper can undergo forward flexion around the journal axis in response to forward flexion of the leg of the skier. Also provided is a flexion control device which elastically opposes forward flexion of the upper. The flexion control device is an elastic element positioned between the shell base and the upper and extends transversely to the longitudinally axis of the boot. One end of the elastic element is attached to the shell base at a linkage point spaced from the journal axis. Another portion of the elastic element is attached to the lower edge of the cuff at a support point by a retention element. These attachments are such that during forward flexion: the distance from the journal axis to the support is invariant, the distance from the journal axis to the linkage point is invariant, and the distance from the support point to the linkage point varies.

A ski boot including an upper journalled around a transverse axis on a rigid shell base. Also provided is an apparatus for determining the advancement angle of the upper, that is the angle which the upper forms with a vertical axis when at rest. In addition, the boot is adapted to flex forward from this advancement angle during skiing. The apparatus determining the advancement angle also determines the resistance moment of the boot to forward flexion from the advancement angle. This apparatus is an elastic apparatus integral with the shell base and the upper and extending between these two boot portions. The point of connection between the elastic apparatus and one of the two boot portions is adjustable between four positions. As a result, the length of the lever arm of the resistance moment of the boot can be varied by changing the point of connection of the elastic apparatus with one of these boot portions between these four positions, thereby providing a large number of different values for the rigidity of the boot.

Device for tensioning a flexible element assuring a connection between two pieces, particularly applicable to the closure and tightening of a ski boot. The flexible element (7) passes around a first, movable counter-element carried by a pivoting tensioning lever (6), forming a first loop (7a, 7b), then around a second fixed counter-element (11, 16, 27), forming a second loop (7b, 7c), the flexible connecting element (7) and the two counter-elements constituting the equivalent of a clamp.

Ski boot tightening device

A ski boot of the rear entry type having an upper and a shell base. The upper includes a front portion journalled on the shell base around a first journal and a rear portion journalled on the front portion around a second journal. The front portion of the upper includes two lateral extensions extending from the first journal to the heel of the shell base. A portion of the lateral extensions and/or the second journal engages an abutment on the shell base so as to rigidly link the upper to the shell base when the lower leg of the skier presses rearwardly on the the upper, thereby permitting the shell base to absorb this rearwardly directed force.

A rear entry ski boot including two flexible tightening elements, one of which tightens the upper of the boot on the lower leg of the skier and the other of which presses the foot downwardly and rearwardly into the boot so as to hold down the foot in the zone of the short perimeter of the heel of the foot. Also provided are two separate and independent manipulation levers, one of which is positioned above the other on the posterior portion of upper. Each lever is journalled around at least one transverse axis and each lever is connected to a different one of the two flexible tightening elements.

Rear entry ski boot

A ski boot has a rigid base shell which is adapted to surround the foot of a skier and an upper adapted to surround the bottom of the leg of the skier. The upper is journalled along a first axis on said shell base and comprises at least two portions, one of which is in the form of a distribution plate journalled to the front cuff portion of the upper along a second, distinct axis. The distribution plate distributes the contact pressure which is normally created between the leg of the skier and the front upper edge of the cuff over a front upper zone of the cuff to enhance the comfort of the skier. The distribution plate helps to compensate for the difference in the angle of movement of the leg of a skier and of the upper when the skier exerts a forward flexion force while skiing.

Ski boot having upper with journalled distribution plate

A device for progressively adjusting the relative positions of two elements, comprising a rack (5), a control knob (4) rotatably mounted on a support (3) above the rack and having its lower face turned toward the latter, a spiral rib (15) centered on the rotational axis (xx') of the control knob and the spiral rib, which axis is inclined with respect to the plane of the rack. The device is applicable to the tightening of ski boots.

Adjustment device for a ski boot

Adjustable toggle type attachment device for a ski boot, with a series of notches constituting a rack fixed to an element to be tightened, and a tightening lever connected through a traction element to another element to be tightened. An abutment longitudinally adjustable in a continuous manner is provided on the lever, and the traction element is supported thereon.

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Duingt, France

Jean-Louis De Marchi