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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2008
Bernhard Riepler, Wagrain, AT;
Rupert Huber, Radstadt, AT;
Helmut Holzer, St. Johann, AT;
ATOMIC Austria GmbH, Altenmarkt im Pongau, AT;
Abstract
The invention describes a ski () or a snowboard in the form of a board-type gliding device (). By reference to the width () of the gliding board body, at least one slot () is provided in its middle portion extending in the depth direction—arrow ()—from the top face () of the gliding board body in the direction towards the running surface facing () and in its longitudinal direction essentially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the gliding board body. This at least one slot () is provided with a view to causing a cross-sectional weakening and reducing the stiffness of the gliding board body transversely to its longitudinal direction. Also provided is at least one geometry-influencing means (), by means of which the cross-sectional shape or contour of the gliding board body is variable as a function of load and/or can be manually varied. The geometry-influencing means () comprises a plate-type force-transmitting element (), which extends across more than 50% of the length of the gliding board body and is supported within its longitudinal extension, at least in part-portions, on the top face () of the gliding board body so as to transmit load, and the plate-type force-transmitting element () is disposed so that it overlaps the least one slot () in the longitudinal direction and bridges it transversely to the longitudinal direction of the slot ().