Method and apparatus for testing the resetting capacity of safety ski bindings which are for example mounted on skis

US4341121A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hannes Marker · DE

Inventors

• Hannes Marker · Garmisch-Partenkirchen, DE
• Walter Knabel · Rosenheim, DE
• Gerhard Eichweber · Penzberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 1979
• Grant date: Jul 27, 1982
• Expiry date: Oct 22, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01L5/03
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Safety ski bindings offer an adequate safeguard against erroneous release if they possess an adequately large resetting capacity. To test this resetting capacity, the ski boot is repeatedly displaced through a constant distance by a pressure pin applying a constant force thereto during constant time intervals. If the ski boot fails to return to its starting position during constant time intervals against a fixed resistance, then this is indicative of an inadequately large resetting capacity because the residual distances remaining after each displacement will be summated and eventually cause release of the binding.