Salomon S.a.

Dana Corporation

Glacier Garlock Bearings, Inc.

Glacier Vandervell Sa

Marc Provence

Didier Rousset

Josiane Dunand

Gerard Graillat

Pierre Rullier

Phillipe Bariod

Josiane Duand

Jean-Louis Ligier

In a bearing assembly for a steering column assembly for example, the bearing assembly comprising an axially split bearing and elastomeric crown, the crown acting to close the split, there is disclosed an improved elastomeric crown. The crown includes a plurality of passageway extending through the crown. The crown also includes a plurality of ribs extending outwardly of the crown. The improved elastomeric crown allows more constant pressure fields and low torque variations of a shaft running in the bearing.

Preloaded cushioned bearing assembly

Bearing assembly

Suspension struts

An apparatus for biasing a shoe or boot on a ski, the shoe comprising an external sole maintained on the ski at its front end by a latching apparatus in a manner so as to allow for the lifting of the shoe from the ski. The return apparatus is constituted by at least one beam connected to the ski and adapted to be biased in flexion and/or torsion at its front free end by the shoe in a biased zone.

Apparatus for biasing

A guiding rib for a cross-country ski boot having at least one support surface on which is placed an adhesive covered by a protection sheet arranged on the adhesive and overhangs the adhesive. The guiding rib has at least one transverse groove constituting zones of lesser resistance permitting the breaking of the rib. The adhesive includes a transverse indentation coinciding with each of the transverse grooves of the rib. The protective sheets also include transverse indentations coinciding with the indentations of the adhesive, but are interrupted in the projecting part of the sheets to preserve a continuous part of each protective sheet.

Guiding rib for a cross-country ski boot

Cross country ski binding, of the type comprising an elastic device constituted by a pair of flexion bars extending the length of the ski, in lateral grooves provided therein. According to the invention, there is provided at the rear a shoe control mechanism which is connected to the movable latching element provided in the front to block the tip of the shoe, the linkage between the element and the mechanism being formed by the flexion bars themselves, which are for this purpose translationally movable along the axis of the ski.

Cross country ski binding

A binding for a cross-country ski shoe in which the shoe is mounted for pivotal movement about an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the ski. An elastic bumper exerts a return force on the shoe when the shoe is lifted from the upper surface of the ski. The elastic bumper is brought into a prestressed condition during the closing of the binding. The prestressing is achieved by either the displacement of the shoe with respect to the elastic bumper or displacement of the elastic bumper with respect to the shoe. This displacement may either be slidable or pivotal movement of a carriage.

Cross-country ski binding

This binding comprises an elastic buffer (20) or comparable device, designed to exert a return-motion stress on the boot when the latter is raised off the upper surface of the ski. The deformation of the elastic buffer during its compression by the boot when raised is controlled so as to avoid vertical expansion of the buffer during compression. The binding also comprises a housing (16) in which at least one part of the elastic buffer (20) may be fitted, and which has transverse dimensions greater than those of the elastic buffer.

Binding for cross-country skis binding comprising elastic buffer

Bottom and periphery for cross-country ski boot sole

Apparatus for releasably attaching a toe member of a boot to a binding member on the upper surfaces of a ski having a longitudinal median plane includes complementary latching parts on the members which are relatively movable in a longitudinal direction to an operative position at which the latching parts complementarily engage each other. The apparatus further includes a base for mounting on the upper surface of the ski, and an abutment element movably mounted on the base and adapted to engage the toe member of the boot when the members are in operative position. Finally, a resilient element or device acting on the abutment element resiliently maintains the members in operative position.

Binding for connecting a shoe or boot to a ski

The system comprises a pin (30) including a shaft designed to be inserted in a hole so as to pass through a first element, and to be anchored by an anchoring zone in an associated hole in the second element (10), and a head located opposite the anchoring zone and designed to keep the first element mounted to the second element. The pin (30) has, extending over at least one portion of its shaft, a zone of flexion with a reduced moment of inertia in a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The dimension of the zone of the reduced moment of inertia extending in the direction of relative motion is smaller in transverse section.

System for mounting guide ridge on cross-country ski

Guidance rib for cross country ski binding

Cross-country ski binding for a shoe or boot having a transverse journal axle. A fixed and movable jaw receive the journal axle and allow pivotal movement of the shoe or boot relative to the ski. A toggle or overcenter linkage both biases and latches the movable jaw in a closed position and guide the movable jaw in its movement relative to the fixed jaw.

Hinge type cross-country ski binding

A binding for keeping the front of a boot (3) positioned on a cross-country ski, comprising a locking slide (6) mounted so as to move longitudinally, when acted upon by a control device, in a slide channel (9) fastened to the upper surface of the ski, the locking slide having a hook (7) at one end extending transversely and unitary with a stem (8) inserted so as to slide in the longitudinal slide channel (9), and a frontal stop (12) extending transversely opposite the hook (7). A portion of the locking slide fits into a corresponding portion of the slide channel (9) or into an element unitary with this slide channel when the binding is locked into position.

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Thorens les Glieres, France

Marc Provence