Patent Application
20070114779
The invention relates to a fastening device for fastening a skin to a glide board body, in particular to a ski body, the fastening device having at least one glide board body fastening element that can be anchored in the glide board body and that forms at least one mount that is open on the bottom of the glide board, and at least one skin-side fastening element that can be inserted into the at least one mount in order to fasten the skin.
The invention relates also to a snow glide board/skin combination with at least one fastening device (4) for releasable fastening of the skin (3) on the bottom of the glide board body.
The invention relates further to a skin for use on a glide board, in particular a ski, with a skin-side fastening element that can be fastened on a mount of a glide board body or ski body.
Various devices or methods are known in the art for fastening skins to skis, in particular to cross-country skis. A very common method for fastening skins consists in providing the ski body, at least at the front end, or in the blade area, with a through opening, in which a hook-shaped skin-side fastening element can be inserted and hooked for fastening the skin. The through opening extending from the top of the ski to the bottom of the ski to form the ski-side fastening element is at least visually disturbing.
It is an object of the invention to present a fastening device, which enables convenient handling while maintaining a visually attractive appearance for the snow glide board or ski body.
This object is achieved by a fastening device for fastening a skin to a glide board body, in particular to a ski body, with at least one glide board body fastening element that can be anchored in the glide board body and that forms at least one mount that is open on the bottom of the glide board, and with one skin-side fastening element that can be inserted into the at least one mount in order to fasten the skin, said fastening device having at least one permanent magnet for securing the at least one skin-side fastening element in the mount.
The glide board/skin combination includes at least one glide board and at least one fastening device for releasable fastening of the skin on the bottom of the glide board body, wherein the fastening device has at least one glide board body fastening element that can be anchored in the glide board body and that forms at least one mount that is open on the bottom of the glide board, and at least one skin-side fastening element that can be inserted into the at least one mount in order to fasten the skin. The fastening device has at least one permanent magnet for securing the at least one skin-side fastening element in the mount.
The skin for use on a glide board, in particular on a ski, has a skin-side fastening element that can be fastened on a mount of a glide board body or ski body, wherein the skin-side fastening element includes at least one permanent magnet, which for the purpose of fastening to the glide board body works together with a glide board body fastening element there consisting at least partially of a ferromagnetic material and/or formed by a permanent magnet.
In the fastening device according to the invention, the skin is fastened simply by inserting the skin-side fastening element into the mount or holder, for example recess of the board-side fastening element. The magnetic forces then hold the skin-side fastening element securely in the mount or holder. Forces that act between the skin and the glide board body are transferred partially through magnetic forces, but to a great or greater extent purely mechanically between the skin-side fastening element and the board- side fastening element.
The invention is described below based on exemplary embodiments with reference to the drawings, in which:
In the drawings, 1 generally designates a cross-country ski, the ski body 2 of which—with the exception of the special characteristics described in the following—features the usual structure, and 3 designates a skin, which is provided on the bottom side of the ski body 2 and can be releasably fastened at the front end (blade area) and at the rear end of the ski body 2.
This releasable connection is achieved by means of fastening devices 4, of which for the sake of clarity only fastening device 4 at the blade area of the ski body 2 is depicted in the drawings. The fastening device 4 provided at the rear end of the ski body 2, has, for example, an identical design.
The fastening device 4 consists of one ski body fastening element 5 and of one skin-side fastening element 6. The fastening element 5 in the depicted embodiment is designed as a flat insert, which is inserted at the bottom of the ski body 2 in the upward curved section of the blade area, in particular so that it fits into the running surface coating 7 forming the bottom side of the ski body 2. The fastening element 5 is not visible on the top side of the ski body 2.
In the depicted embodiment, the fastening element 5 has a two-part design, i.e. it consists of a flat molded or injected molded part 8 made of plastic, which when the fastening element 5 is in mounted state on the bottom side of the ski body 2, is visible and flush with the running surface, and of a further inner part 9 made of a ferromagnetic material and which is flat and plate-shaped in the depicted embodiment. The outer part 8 is provided with a recess 10 that forms a mount and is open at an insertion opening on the bottom side of the ski body and closed on the side opposing this opening through the plate-shaped part 9, which is made for example from a sheet metal blank. In order not to interfere with the usual structure of the ski body 2, the flat or plate-shaped part 8 has a thickness, for example, that is equal to or only slightly greater than the thickness of the running surface coating 7. The fastening element 5 and its part 8 can be designed for example as a visible company emblem on the bottom of the ski.
The skin-side fastening element 6 is designed as a cylindrical permanent magnet, which is fastened in a suitable manner to the inner side of the skin 3 facing the ski body 2 when in use, and which can be used to fasten the skin 3 into the recess 10, so that the fastening element 6 or the permanent magnet is held magnetically to the bottom of the recess 10 formed by part 9. The fastening element 6 is held by the magnetic force in the recess 10 of the fastening element 5, so that tensile forces (arrow K) exerted via the skin 3 do not release the connection between the fastening elements 5 and 6. Since the diameter of the recess 10 is optimized to match the diameter of the fastening element 6, a majority of the tensile forces is already transferred purely mechanically from the skin 3 to the skin body 2 due to the engaging of the fastening elements 5 and 6.
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In order to fasten the skin 3 to the ski 1, the fastening element 6a again is inserted into the opening 10 of the fastening element 5, so that the fastening element 6a then bears in the area of the magnetic gap 3 against the part 9 made of the ferromagnetic material and is held onto the ski there particularly securely, namely in particular also by the fact that the magnetic gap 13 is bridged by the part 9. The fastening element 6a and therefore the skin 3 can be released from the ski through pulling by means of an extending flap 18.
The invention was described above based on exemplary embodiments. It goes without saying that numerous modifications and variations are possible, without abandoning the underlying inventive idea upon which the invention is based. For example, it is possible to fabricate the plate-shaped part 9 of the ski's fastening element 5 from a section of a belt-shaped support element 9.1 (lower belt) made of a ferromagnetic material, for example steel, which (belt)—corresponding to the usual structure of a ski body—extends continuously from the front to the rear end of the ski body 2.
Furthermore, it was assumed that the fastening device 4 or its board-side fastening elements 5 feature only one recess 10 or mount for a skin-side fastening element 6. Of course, the fastening device 4 can also feature a plurality of skin-side fastening elements, each of which is formed by a permanent magnet or comprising a permanent magnet and each of which is then allocated to one recess 10 on the ski body.
Many various shapes are conceivable for the skin-side fastening element 6 or 6a: for example, cylindrical, knob-shaped, mushroom-shaped, etc. The fastening element 6 is then designed for example altogether as a permanent magnet or comprises at least one permanent magnet.
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