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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1989
Gilles R Goud, Cran Gevier, FR;
Salomon S.A., Annecy Cedex, FR;
Abstract
A safety ski binding having a longitudinal slide affixed to the ski and a body supporting a retention jaw for one end of a boot to be mounted on the ski and an energization mechanism for the jaw, the body being solidly affixed to a base mounted for longitudinal sliding on the slide, a mechanism to immobilize the base and, consequently, the body on the slide in one of several different longitudinal positions. The immobilization mechanism includes, on one of the two elements that the base and the slide constitute, a succession of notches generally aligned longitudinally, forming a rack, respectively determining the different longitudinal positions that the body can occupy on the slide and, on the other element, an elastically biased latch having, with respect to the succession of notches, at least one tooth. The tooth of the latch is elastically biased in the direction of the notches so as to be able to become engaged in one of the notches to immobilize the body on the slide in the desired longitudinal position, wherein the binding includes a removable wedge inserted between a support surface and a portion of the latch so as to hold the latch normally in its release position in which its tooth is separated from the latching notch, and to allow the locking of the latch by engagement of its tooth in one of the notches, following the removal of the wedge.