A ski brake preventing free flight of the ski upon its inadvertent release from the ski boot comprises a U-shaped stirrup whose shanks straddle the longitudinal edges of the ski and are provided with braking elements and a pair of torsion rods connected to the shanks and received in a mounting retaining the surface of the stirrup on the ski. When the bight of the U-shaped member is held against the ski by the ski boot directly or a plate of the ski binding, the brake elements are swung upwardly to the upper surface of the ski and lie parallel to the longitudinal edges. When the stirrup is released the resilient action of the torsion rods rotates the stirrup into a position in which the brake elements project symmetrically transverse to the longitudinal edges and below the bottom surface of the ski to prevent free flight.
A ski brake construction utilizing a spring wire bent into a desired configuration so that the entirety thereof lies in a common plane. The spring has a portion which is bent generally into a U-shape with an intermediate bight portion interconnecting the legs of the U being received in an elongated and inclined slot in a holding plate device mounted on the upper surface of a ski. The intermediate bight portion has a general configuration to hold it in the aforementioned common plane even though the braking members are moved out of the common plane. As a result, a torsional force is developed in the spring, which torsional force effects an erecting of the brake after the ski boot is released from engagement with the ski bindings.
A structure for a use in either an anti-crossing device for skis or a ski brake. A torsion spring is utilized to urge a projection member to an upright position on the ski. In the anti-crossing device for skis, the resilient projection member will prevent movement of a ski to the crossed position in one direction while simultaneously permitting movement of the ski in the opposite direction by flexing the resilient projection downwardly onto the upper surface of the ski. In the ski brake environment, the ski boot effects a resilient flexing of the projection member down onto the upper surface of the ski when the ski boot is mounted between the ski bindings. The resilient projection member has extension members which project below the lower surface of the ski when the resilient projection member is in the upright position.
A ski stop assembly 12 including a pair of elongated members 14, 16 mounted for rotation with respect to each other about a common axis on the side of a ski. The ski stop assembly includes a torsion spring sandwiched between the elongated members and urging them to rotate with respect to each other to a position in which they extend at an angle to the axis of elongation of the ski. A preferred embodiment of the invention is described in which a pair of elongated members is mounted at each side of a ski. A preferred mounting structure is described.
