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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1980
Manfred Richert, Farchant, DE;
Ralf Storandt, Leonberg, DE;
Vereinigte Baubeschlagfabriken Gretsch & Co. GmbH, Leonberg, DE;
Abstract
A safety toe unit for ski binding includes a compensation mechanism to compensate the release setting of the binding for the changes in the frictional resistance to sliding of the ski boot relative to the ski which accompany the continuously changing pressure between the ball region of a skier's foot and the ski. The invention is applicable to most known kinds of safety toe unit and in particular to those safety toe units which feature a safety release mechanism including at least one spring adapted to bias one or more toe clamping elements into a ski boot securing position and operative on the occurrence of a predetermined sideways force to permit sideways pivoting of the toe clamp or at least of an element thereof to a position in which the ski boot is released from the binding. The compensation mechanism features a force signalling device, responsive to the pressure prevailing at the ball region of the ski boot, and which exerts, via a force transmission device, an auxiliary force on the movable end of the bias spring so that the sideways force required at the toe clamp to overcome the bias of the spring is reduced. The mechanical advantage of the force transmission device is chosen so that the maximum possible auxiliary force cannot exceed approximately 40% of the installed spring bias of the release spring.