An apparatus for facilitating a mounting of ski bindings onto skis. The apparatus includes a plate and a jaw member fastened to the plate. The plate is releasably fastened by fastening elements to the upper side of a ski. Two or more receiving parts are provided for receiving the ends of the fastening elements, which ends are on a side of the plate which is remote from the ski binding, the receiving parts being built into the body of the ski. Each receiving part includes an elliptic slotted hole or an elongated T-shaped recess, each being provided with at least one undercut step. Each fastening element is arranged on the jaw member or the plate and has a locking member at an end region thereof remote from the jaw member or the plate. The locking member has a larger dimension in one direction compared with the recess or the slotted hole of the individual receiving parts, and engages the undercut step. At least one of the fastening elements is rotatable for facilitating a movement of the larger dimensioned portion of the locking member thereof between a first position aligned with a major axis of the elliptic slotted hole or the elongated T-shaped recess extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the ski and a second position transverse with respect to the first position and under the undercut step to thereby facilitate all of the locking members being brought into engagement with the undercut steps. The elongation of the hole and the recess facilitates a selective positioning of the plate and the jaw member fastened to the plate relative to the ski in a direction parallel to the major axes and before the locking members effect a locking of the plate to the ski at a selected position. In addition, the locking members are capable of effecting the locking of the plate at any position along the length of the elongation.

Alpine binding designed to hold a boot supported on a ski. The binding comprises a slide track 4 attached to the ski, a body movable along this slide track, and a covering piece 11 which encloses the slide track. Holes 13 provide, on the side of the slide track 4, a cut-out section through which the edge of the slide track 5 emerges inside the orifice 13, so that the screw head is partially supported on the bottom of a recess 15 located in the upper portion of the orifice 13 and partially on the upper surface of an edge 9, 10 of the slide track 4.

The device comprises two jaws (10, 20) designed to lock the hinge pin of the ski boot while leaving this pin free to rotate. One of the jaws (10l ) is stationary and the other jaw (20) is movable and displaceable toward the stationary jaw (10) in order to grip the hinge pin, and the stationary jaw (1) delimits a slide track which guides a guide piece (23) connected to the movable locking jaw (20). The guide rail (12) is positioned between two screws (5) for mounting the device on the ski and extends transversely under at least one part of the support area of each screw head (5).

A ski binding apparatus and method for facilitating the mounting of a ski binding onto a ski. The ski binding apparatus of the invention includes a body which carries a jaw for retention of a ski boot and a base affixed to the lower portion of the body. The base has holes for receiving screws for mounting the binding to the ski. Further, the base has a lower surface, a frontal surface, and a longitudinal groove formed in the lower surface. The longitudinal groove extends to and opens into the lower surface and the frontal surface of the base. A retention element is slidably received within the groove and extends therefrom in a transport and preassembly position of the binding apparatus. A fastener is held in the retention element in the extended position such that, when the binding is mounted upon the ski, the fastener secures the retention element to the ski, after which the binding is slid forwardly, receiving the retention element within the groove and, thereafter, additional fasteners complete the attachment of the binding to the ski.

The binding comprises a baseplate (1) intended to be fixed to the ski by screws (8). This is fitted with a detachable brake (6), mounted on the baseplate by a base (5) held on the baseplate by hooking (16, 17) and by a rotary assembly element. In the region of the brake base (5), the screws (8) for securing the baseplate (1) to the ski bear exclusively on the baseplate, and the base (5) has openings (12) making it possible to access the screws (8) using a screwdriver. The ski binding may be sold fully preequipped, and it can be mounted very quickly on a ski without it being necessary to remove the brake beforehand. When sharpening the edges, the brake can be removed without compromising the securing of the binding to the ski.