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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2010
Dodd Grande, Seattle, WA (US);
Chris Barchet, Seattle, WA (US);
Jay Bublitz, Shoreline, WA (US);
Scott Youmans, Seattle, WA (US);
Dodd Grande, Seattle, WA (US);
Chris Barchet, Seattle, WA (US);
Jay Bublitz, Shoreline, WA (US);
Scott Youmans, Seattle, WA (US);
K-2 Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A snowshoe with binding suspended by tension straps secured to a frame is assembled from a generally U-shaped nose, and an aft section which can be a midsection and a tail. In one embodiment the nose has sufficient strength to resist inward pulling under tension to suspend the binding resiliently, without significant strength contribution from aft portions of the frame. The aft portion of the snowshoe includes traction elements, i.e. rows of teeth, positioned to engage into snow and ice. An important aspect of the invention is that the nose and aft sections are non-integral and very dissimilar in cross section, in a suspended-binding snowshoe.