Hand held skiing stabilizer

• US 4,285,530 A
• Filed: 02/01/1979
• Issued: 08/25/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jacques F. Ducourant
• Original Assignee: Jacques F. Ducourant
• Inventors: Ducourant, Jacques F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Underwood, Donald W.
• Application Number:
  US06/008,248
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: 280/11.37 R, 280/11.37 E, 280/11.37 A, 280/11.37 H, 280/11.37 S, 89/36 D, 89/36 E, 89/36 F, 114/39, 114/102, 114/103, 2/2.5, 2/16, 2/20, 16/110 R, 16/110.5, 109/49.5, 169/48, 24/183, 46/1 R, 272/143, 220/94 R, 220/94 A, 220/256, D21/229, D21/230, D22/99
• US Class Current: 280/809
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 11/00 Accessories for skiing or snowboarding fittings on vehicles for carrying skis B60R9/12

Abstract

A hand-held skiing stabilizer has a stabilizer body and a handle extending into the body so that a hand grasping the handle does not pass entirely through the stabilizer. A preferred stabilizer comprises a pair of similarly shaped sheets of semirigid material attached together about their edges. Hand holes extend through one of the sheets inwardly from the edge margins thereof to form a handle. Structure is provided about the hand holes and between the two sheets to spread and hold apart the two sheets so that a hand grasping the handle passes partially through the hand holes in the one sheet but does not pass through the other sheet. It is preferred that a hole be provided in the sheet that does not have the handle and that a tongue extend from attachment inside the stabilizer through the hole so that two similar stabilizers may be interconnected by means of said tongues and holes for ease of carrying.

Claims

1. A hand-held skiing stabilizer comprising a pair of similarly shaped sheets of semirigid material;

means attaching said sheets together about their edges;

two holes through one of said sheets in spaced, side-by-side relationship forming a bar between the two holes so that a hand may be inserted to grasp the bar;

box structure positioned between the two sheets to spread and hold the two sheets apart in the area of the handle, so that a hand grasping the bar does not pass through the second sheet, said box structure being of a size so that the edges of the box structure extend about the perimeter of the holes through the one sheet, and having flanges adjacent to one of the sheets;

a reinforcing piece, smaller than the sheets, attached to one of the sheets and arranged to hold the flanges of the box structure against the sheet to which the reinforcing piece is attached, the box structure extending through the reinforcing piece to the opposite sheet.

2. A hand-held skiing stabilizer according to claim 1, wherein the reinforcing piece is attached to the sheet having the handle, and wherein the reinforcing piece has holes corresponding to those in the said sheet and forming a bar between the holes, which bar corresponds to the bar of the said sheet, the reinforcing piece being aligned with the said sheet so that the holes and the bars coincide, the bar of the reinforcing piece reinforcing the bar of the said sheet.

3. A hand-held skiing stabilizer according to claim 2, wherein a portion of the sheet material that is cut to provide a hole is left attached to the sheet along the bar and is folded over on the bar as reinforcement for the bar.

4. A hand-held skiing stabilizer according to claim 3, additionally comprising a hole formed in that sheet which does not have the handle means, and a tongue extending from attachment inside the stabilizer, through the hole and away from the stabilizer, so that two similar stabilizers may be interconnected by means of said tongues and said holes for ease of carrying.

5. A hand-held skiing stabilizer according to claim 4, wherein the box structure has a tongue cut therein where it abuts that sheet which does not have the handle means, and wherein the hole in said sheet not having the handle means is located so as to receive said tongue of the box structure and have it pass there through so that it extends outwardly from that said sheet.

6. A hand-held skiing stabilizer, comprising a pair of similarly shaped sheets of semirigid material;

means attaching said sheets together about their edges;

hand-hole means extending through one of said sheets inwardly from the edge margins thereof to form a handle;

means spreading and holding the two sheets apart in the area of the handle, so that a hand grasping the handle passes partially through said handhole means in the one sheet, but does not pass through the other sheet;

a hole in that sheet which does not have the handle means; and

a tongue extending from attachment inside the stabilizer, through the hole and away from the stabilizer, so that two similar stabilizers may be interconnected by means of said tongues and said holes for ease of carrying.