EP1053770A1 - Stockgriff für Ski und Trekking und dergleichen mit einstellbarem Handschlauf - Google Patents

Stockgriff für Ski und Trekking und dergleichen mit einstellbarem Handschlauf Download PDF

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Publication number: EP1053770A1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: wrist strap; handle; stick handle; lever; stick
Prior art date: 1999-05-18
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EP99118735A

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Attilio Pronzati

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GIPRON - GIUSEPPE PRONZATI SpA

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GIPRON - GIUSEPPE PRONZATI SpA

PRONZATI GIUSEPPE GIPRON SpA

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1999-05-18

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1999-09-22

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2000-11-22

1999-09-22 Application filed by GIPRON - GIUSEPPE PRONZATI SpA, PRONZATI GIUSEPPE GIPRON SpA filed Critical GIPRON - GIUSEPPE PRONZATI SpA

2000-05-18 Priority to US09/573,049 priority Critical patent/US6439610B1/en

2000-11-22 Publication of EP1053770A1 publication Critical patent/EP1053770A1/de

2005-05-11 Application granted granted Critical

2005-05-11 Publication of EP1053770B1 publication Critical patent/EP1053770B1/de

2019-09-22 Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
- A45B—WALKING STICKS; UMBRELLAS; LADIES' OR LIKE FANS
- A45B9/00—Details
- A45B9/02—Handles or heads
- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
- A63C11/00—Accessories for skiing or snowboarding
- A63C11/22—Ski-sticks
- A63C11/222—Ski-stick handles or hand-straps
- A63C11/2224—Connection systems for hand-straps
- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
- A45B—WALKING STICKS; UMBRELLAS; LADIES' OR LIKE FANS
- A45B9/00—Details
- A45B9/02—Handles or heads
- A45B2009/025—Handles or heads releasably connected to a wrist strap or a glove

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the present invention refers to a stick handle for ski, trekking and the like, equipped with an adjustable wrist strap, which is apt to tie the user wrist round.
a stick for ski or for trekking generally comprises a rod having a tip on one of its ends, and a handle on the other end.
the tip generally made of metal, is apt to penetrate snow, ice or quite soft fields, as well as to grip a more solid field.
the handle generally made of plastic or composite material, has an ergonomic shape suitable to be easily tighten by the hand of the user.
a strap generally made of leather or synthetic material and commonly called wrist strap, is connected to the handle. The wrist strap is closed like a ring in order to form a loop apt to tie the user wrist round, so as to guarantee a steady grip and to avoid the loss of the stick.
the wrist strap In order to better perform its function, the wrist strap must be correctly tied round the wrist of the user and hence the wideness of its loop shall be apt to be adjusted.
the loop adjustment of the wrist strap generally is obtained through a buckle.
these wrist straps comprise two strips of belt connected to the stick handle. One of these two strips of belt has on its end a buckle, wherein the free end of the other strip is apt to be inserted and adjusted.
EP-A-202.287 discloses a stick handle for ski, wherein the handle has a cam lever which can be operated by the hand of the user. Upon forming a loop of the desired dimension, the cam lever is closed pinching the strips of the wrist strap against a surface of the handle; the two free ends of the loop lay between the lever and the main body of the handle and then they come out below, parallel to the rod of the stick.
An object of the present invention is to eliminate these drawbacks, providing a stick handle for ski, trekking and the like equipped with a device for adjusting the wrist strap which is comfortable and, at the same time, reliable.
Another object is to provide a stick handle wherein the adjusting device of the wrist strap can be correctly closed, tightly blocking the wrist strap, also for a thickness of strips which is not constant.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a stick handle equipped with a device for adjusting the wrist strap, wherein the part of the wrist strap with a variable length can be automatically and ordinarily accommodated inside the handle itself, so as to be hidden from the outside.
a stick handle for ski, trekking and the like with an adjustable wrist strap provides on its upper part, an opening/closing lever housed in a corresponding seat located in the upper part of the stick handle. Inside this seat the wrist strap is made pass in such a way as to externally protrude from the stick handle to form a loop apt to tie the user wrist round.
the opening/closing lever works as a cover for the stick handle and it is also pivoted in the upper rearward part of the same handle. In this way the opening/closing lever can swing from an open position, wherein the length of the wrist strap can be adjusted by making it slide in its own seat, to a close position, wherein the wrist strap is firmly blocked in its seat.
the cam lever has also a pivoting pawl apt to grip the wrist strap for any thickness of the strips, within a certain range, allowing to the main opening/closing lever to always reach its condition of optimal closing.
Elastic returning means to automatically retract the free adjustable end of the wrist strap into the stick handle, are also provided.
a stick for ski comprises a tubular rod 1 on which end a stick handle 2 is fixed.
the rod 1, shown as interrupted in Fig. 1, is generally manufactured by a light metallic material, such as aluminium alloy.
the rod 1 has, on its free end a tip (which is not shown) apt to penetrate snow, ice or field in general.
the handle 2 is generally made of plastic or other suitable synthetic material. It has a substantially cylindrical shape provided with swellings and ergonomic depressions apt to accommodate hand fingers for ease of grip.
the handle 2 terminates with an upper part 5 having a substantially elliptical cross section, with bigger dimensions than the remaining of the stick handle.
the upper part 5 is formed by two walls 6 projecting upwards and parallel to each other in order to delimit a seat 7.
the seat 7 has a substantially flat bottom and it is apt to receive the wrist strap 12.
the wrist strap 12 can be made of leather or suitable synthetic material strips 15 and 16, closed to form a loop 18 which would tie the user wrist round.
the wrist strap 12 is then loop closed and inserted into the seat 7 so as to protrude from side to side of the seat itself.
an opening/closing or operating lever 9 is pivotally mounted through a pin 8 arranged in the proximity of a rearward end (from the point of view of a user who grips the stick) of the lever itself, as it can be seen in Fig. 4.
the lever 9 has an upper surface shaped as a rounded ellipsoid and it has such a dimension to superiorly close and complete the seat 7, working as a cover for the stick handle, without creating any discontinuity of the upper part 5.
the lever 9 has at its forward part, two fins or little pins 21 protruding towards the outside and lightly flexible, placed on two lateral opposite sides, in correspondence of seats 20. In this way, when the lever 9 is closed, the fins 21 are engaged into the respective seats 20 of the walls 6, avoiding in this way possible casual opening of the lever itself. Obviously, the position of the fins 21 and of the seats 20 can be inverted.
the lever 9 also comprises a pivoting pawl 30 having a lower surface 31 with an eccentric cam (Fig.5).
the pawl 30 has superiorly two fork arms 30a and 30b, by which said pawl is assembled to the lever 9, preferably rotating around the pin 8 itself.
the cam surface 31 is eccentric in the sense that it presents an increasing distance from the rotation axis 8 of the pawl 30.
the eccentric surface 31 has a distance from the axis 8 increasing in the clockwise direction as in Fig. 4. This is particularly useful to the purpose which will explained ahead.
the pawl 30 is received into a housing 90 of the lever 9 defined by two beat walls 90a and 90b, respectively forward and rearward.
the two beat walls 90a and 90b limit the maximum angular stroke allowed to the pawl 30.
the available clearance for wrist strap which is to say the distance between the cam surface 31 of the pawl 30 and the bottom surface of the seat 7, changes from a minimum d1, when the pawl is abutting the rearward beat wall 90b, and a maximum d2, when the pawl is abutting the forward beat wall 90a.
an available clearance for the wrist strap 12 variable in continuity from d1 and d2, is obtained.
the cam lever 9 can be perfectly closed, without worrying about the thickness of the wrist strap 12.
the pawl 30, as a matter of gravity rests against the wrist strap (whatever its thickness is, from a minimum of about d1 to a maximum of about d2), by rotating by an angle which is allowed by the thickness of the specific used wrist straps.
this latter can be lightly extracted in the direction FB to make the pawl 30 further rotate in the counter clockwise direction in Fig. 4, so that the eccentric surface 31 further approaches the bottom of the seat 7 and the clearance available to the wrist strap 12 further reduces, which strap is thus firmly pinched.
the adjustment device of the invention is comfortable to operate in every condition and it is apt to perfectly block wrist straps of different thickness over a predetermined range d1-d2, for example from 2,5 mm to 3,5 mm.
the wrist strap 12 has, on its end 13 which forwardly protrudes from the stick handle 2, a rigid ring 14, with a substantially rectangular shape, made of metal or plastic material, apt to be grasped from the user to drag the wrist strap 12.
the ring 14 also works as a stop for the wrist strap 12, avoiding the wrist strap to be discharged from the seat 7.
the ring 14 can also have any other shape.
At least an adjustable end 12a of the wrist strap 12 (the other end could just be anchored to the stick handle) instead of forwardly protruding, is inserted, through an opening 22 of the seat 7, in an interior housing 23 of the handle itself and it is attached to a first end of an elastic returning element 24.
the housing 23 preferably extends also inside the tubular rod 1.
the second end of the elastic returning element 24, for example in the form of a helicoidal spring, is internally fixed in the housing 23 or, better, is fixed inside the rod 1.
the part of the wrist strap with a variable length can be hidden and accommodated inside the handle 2 and/or the rod 1. If, during the adjustment, the loop 18 is requested to be widened, a part of the wrist strap 12 will be extracted in the direction FB, yelding the elastic element; while, if the loop 18 is requested to be tighten, the blocking of the cam lever will be loosen, letting the elastic element 24 automatically return a part of wrist strap in the direction opposite to FB.
the cooperating surfaces of the pawl 30 and of the bottom of the seat 7 could be provided with various roughness (such as an indentation or a knurling) to enhance the friction coefficient and thus to increase the blocking effect of the wrist strap.
the elastic element 24 instead of being a helicoidal spring, could be an elongated element made of elastomer or a specific portion of the wrist strap itself made of elastic or extensible material.

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EP99118735A 1999-05-18 1999-09-22 Stockgriff für Ski und Trekking und dergleichen mit einstellbarem Handschlauf Expired - Lifetime EP1053770B1 (de)

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Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
US09/573,049 US6439610B1 (en)	1999-05-18	2000-05-18	Stick handle for ski, trekking and the like with adjustable wrist strap

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Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
IT1999MI000325U IT246739Y1 (it)	1999-05-18	1999-05-18	Impugnatura per bastone da sci trekking e simili con lacciolo regolabi-le
ITMI990325U		1999-05-18
ITMI990325		1999-05-18

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EP1053770A1 true EP1053770A1 (de)	2000-11-22
EP1053770B1 EP1053770B1 (de)	2005-05-11

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US6851437B1 (en) *	2000-05-19	2005-02-08	Klaus Lenhart	Cane handle with adjustable supporting loop
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DE102011001269A1 (de)	2010-03-18	2011-09-22	Jürgen Dirschnabel	Verstellvorrichtung, insbesondere Längenverstellvorrichtung
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IT246739Y1 (it)	2002-04-10
DE69925246T2 (de)	2006-01-19
ITMI990325U1 (it)	2000-11-20
DE69925246D1 (de)	2005-06-16
ATE295210T1 (de)	2005-05-15
ITMI990325V0 (it)	1999-05-18
EP1053770B1 (de)	2005-05-11

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