Nordica S.p.a.

Benetton Sportsystem S.p.a.

Valerio Tonel

Mariano Sartor

Renzo Balbinot

Francesco Caeran

Mario Mattiuzzo

Maurizio Tacchetto

Flavio Bacchiega

Roberto Gorza

Claudio Zorzi

Alfred Pellegrini

Giuseppe De Bortoli

Mario Gonella

Giancarlo Foscaro

Claudio Sartor

Alessandro Morandin

Stefano Soligo

Luca Vedoato

A reinforced skate including a frame for supporting wheels or an ice-skating blade, and associated with a shoe. The reinforcement includes a first rigid element and a second rigid element, which are articulated to each other and surround the quarter and the shell so as to laterally assume the shape of the Greek letter lambda. The first rigid element is connected, at its end, to the frame so as to form a structure which allows optimum transmission of forces to the frame.

Reinforced skate

A sports shoe including a rigid supporting element which surrounds the sole and the sides of the foot and at least partially the rear part and the sides of the leg. A soft upper is associated with the rigid supporting element.

Sports shoe

A skate provided with a supporting frame for in-line wheels and comprising a shoe which is composed of a nonrigid upper that, in a sandwich-like fashion, surrounds a stiffening element which affects the regions of the tip, of the heel, of the ankle and of the sole of the foot, and a lateral band or rim made of rubber which externally and laterally surrounds said upper proximate to said region of the sole of the foot. An anchoring sole for the frame is formed thereat. A skate is obtained which at the same time allows optimum transmission of forces from the foot to the wheel supporting frame and optimum fit for the user's foot.

Skate with non-rigid upper and stiffening element

External perimetric band for sport shoes

Roller skate with improved fit which includes a first front body for supporting and securing the front part of the foot and a second rear body for supporting and securing at least the heel. These bodies are rotatably associated with each other, and each body is provided with a supporting frame for at least one wheel. The articulation between the first body and the second body allows easier skating in improved comfort conditions.

Roller skate with improved fit

A footgear, particularly usable for skiing, includes a shell which has a recess at the upper metatarsal region and with which at least one quarter is associated. One or more flaps are removably associable with the quarter and/or with the shell through connection members. The footgear thus obtained allows, by virtue of the interchangeability of the flaps, to replace them in case of breakage or wear, to vary the shape and color of the flaps and to recycle them once they have been changed.

Footgear with replaceable flap elements

A sports shoe includes a shell having a rear quarter. The quarter is provided, in a downward position and to the rear, with a recess. The sports shoe includes a flap which is articulated to the shell and affects the recess; the flap is provided with a projection for engaging the quarter at the recess providing a rear support of the quarter. The flap can be disengaged from the quarter by the user by pressing the projection or the flap in the direction of the leg.

Sports shoe with quick-release quarter

A waterproof device, for boots having a shell and/or a quarter which have a first and a second overlapping flaps. The device is constituted by an insert arranged at a seat defined on the first flap of the shell and/or of the quarter. The insert has containment seats for respective levers and a tab which can be sealingly interposed between the first flap and the second flap.

Waterproof device, particularly for boots

The device for fastening footgear to a sports implement, particularly to a cross-country ski or to a ski mounted on rollers or to a ski for Telemark skiing or to a ski for mountain skiing, has the peculiarity of including at least one means for adjustable elastic contrast to the rotation of the footgear with respect to the sports implement.

Device for fastening footgear to a sports implement

A lever structure for securing one or more pressers and/or for closing the flaps of a ski boot, includes a device for the fine adjustment of the working length of one or more traction elements. The device includes at least one knob which can be accessed by the skier and is associated with a lever arm in an oscillating manner and without fixed connections. The knob has an internally threaded cavity which acts as seat for a complementarily threaded pawl which is rigidly associated with a traction element. The device is considerably simple in execution and has modest costs in view of the absence of pivots, rivets and other means for interconnection between the lever and the knob.

Lever structure particularly for ski boots

A support adjustment device for ski boots composed of a shell with which at least one quarter is associated. The peculiarity of the device consists of the fact that a shaped body is elastically associated with the quarter and embraces at least one portion of the skier's leg. The device furthermore includes sliders suitable for limiting the backward stroke of the shaped body with respect to the quarter. A safe and constant support of the calf is thus obtained.

Rear support adjustment device, particularly for ski boots

A ski boot of the type having a shell with overlapping flaps or of the rigid monolithic type, with at least one closure point on the instep and/or on the metatarsal region and a front quarter and a rear quarter associated with the shell. A band-like element is associated with the front quarter. The front quarter has one or more partially mutually superimposed tabs inside which there is at least one tongue which protrudes from the band-like element. The band-like element, which interacts with tension-producing devices, has rivets engaging respective slots in the front quarter.

Ski boot with mixed front entry and rear entry structure

Device for ski boots comprising a front quarter and a rear quarter associated with a shell and/or an upper quarter embracing at least one portion of the leg of a skier and supported at the upper end of said front and/or rear quarter(s). The device has a slider which is movable transversely to said upper quarter and/or front quarter and/or rear quarter and/or shell, and interacts selectively with at least two separate abutments provided on said upper quarter and/or front quarter and/or rear quarter and/or shell.

Adjustment device particularly for ski boots

The closure and adjustment device is particularly for ski boots comprising a front quarter and a rear quarter pivoted to a shell. The rear quarter is connected to at least one mutually movable part of the boot through at least one connecting element. The rear quarter and the connecting element are provided with a set of teeth and a bar respectively for the adjustment and locking of the position of the connecting element, for effecting adjustment of the closure of said quarters.

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Biadene, Italy

Valerio Tonel