Speedometer and/or hodometer for skiers

• US 4,262,537 A
• Filed: 03/21/1979
• Issued: 04/21/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arne W.P. Franke, Dieter E. Jander
• Original Assignee: Arne W.P. Franke, Dieter E. Jander
• Inventors: Jander, Dieter E., Franke, Arne W. P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gill, James J.
• Application Number:
  US06/022,439
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 73/493, 73/490, 73/527, 73/529, 280/11.37 E, 280/12 A
• US Class Current: 73/490
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 2203/18 Measuring a physical parameter, e.g. speed, distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 5/06 with special devices thereon, e.g. steering devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/00 Measuring distance traversed on the ground by vehicles, persons, animals or other moving solid bodies, e.g. using odometers, using pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/04 Special adaptations of driving means
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/00 Measuring linear or angular speed; Measuring differences of linear or angular speeds G01P5/00 - G01P11/00 take precedence; direction and speed indication G01P13/045; counting mechanisms G06M
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/24 by using friction effects G01P3/06 takes precedence

Abstract

Device for measuring the speed and/or the distance for skiers, consisting of a toothed wheel positioned at the ski and rotatable around an axis always vertical to the ski axis, the toothing of the wheel being in mechanical contact with the snow, whereby the wheel is protected at the side and in front and the space in which the wheel is positioned is open towards the back.

Claims

1. Device for skiers for measuring the speed and/or distance skied, comprising two toothed wheels on a common shaft positioned laterally to the ski, the teething of said wheels being resilient and in mechanical contact with the snow, means for indicating speed and/or distance, means for transmitting the rotation of said wheels to said indicating means, protective walls for protecting said wheels at the sides and leaving spaces in which said wheels are positioned open toward the rear thereof, said protective walls ending at the bottom slightly above the plane of the ski sole, the lower edges of said protective walls being lower at the front than at the back and the step between the front part and the back part of the edges lying before the wheel axis in the direction of motion in such a way that the resilient teeth of said wheels cannot be squeezed between said edges and the underground.

2. Device according to claim 1 wherein a hub of said wheel at which said teeth are mounted ends above the back part of said edge of said protective walls.

3. Device according to claim 1, wherein the height of said step is greater than the thickness of said teeth.

4. Device for skiers for measuring the speed and/or the distance skied, comprising two toothed wheels on a common shaft positioned laterally to the ski, the teething of said wheels being resilient and in mechanical contact with the snow, means for indicating speed and/or distance, means for transmitting the rotation of said wheels to said indicating means, and protective walls for protecting said wheels at the sides and leaving the spaces in which said wheels are positioned open towards the back, said protective walls ending at the bottom slightly above the plane of the ski sole.