Handle-equipped ski carrier

Claim 1

IN A DEVICE FOR BINDING TOGETHER AND CARRYING A PAIR OF SKIS DISPOSED IN GENERALLY PARALLEL SPACED RELATIONSHIP, A MAIN BODY COMPRISING AN ELONGATED INTERMEDIATE BODY SECTION DEFINING A CARRYING HANDLE AND A PAIR OF GENERALLY PARALLEL MOUNTING LEGS EACH CARRIED BY AND DEPENDING FROM AN OPPOSITE END PORTION OF SAID HANDLE DEFINING INTERMEDIATE BODY SECTION, A SKI-SUPPORTING STRUCTURE CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID DEPENDING LEGS, THE SKI-SUPPORTING STRUCTURE OF EACH LEG COMPRISING A PAIR OF SKI-SUPPORTING ARMS PROJECTING OUTWARDLY IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM AND ANCHORED AT THEIR INNER ENDS TO AN ASSOCIATED MAIN BODY LEG, SAID SKI-SUPPORTING ARMS EACH BEING PROVIDED AT ITS OUTER END WITH AN UPWARDLY OPENING SKI-RECEIVING SOCKET SPACED OUTWARDLY FROM A VERTICAL PLANE THROUGH THE TRANSVERSE CENTERS OF SAID LEGS AND INTERMEDIATE BODY SECTION, THE SOCKETS LOCATED AT ONE SIDE OF SAID PLANE BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE LONGITUDINALLY SPACED EDGE PORTIONS OF ONE OF A PAIR OF SKIS AND THE SOCKETS LOCATED AT THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID PLANE BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE LONGITUDINALLY SPACED EDGE PORTIONS OF THE OTHER OF SAID PAIR OF SKIS, MEANS FOR RELEASABLY RETAINING A PAIR OF SKIS IN THE SUPPORTING ARM SOCKETS, THE SAID DEPENDING MAIN BODY LEGS EACH BEING PROVIDED WITH A GENERALLY VERTICALLY ELONGATED SLOT OPENING THERETHROUGH IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SLOT IN THE OTHER LEG, AND SAID MEANS COMPRISING A SKI-RETAINING UPPER ARM ASSOCIATED WITH EACH BODY LEG AND INTERMEDIATELY CONNECTED THERETO FOR PIVOTAL SWINGING MOVEMENTS IN A PLANE GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE ABOVE SAID PLANE AND FOR SLIDING MOVEMENTS IN THE SLOT OF ITS ASSOCIATED LEG BY FASTENING MEANS EXTENDING THROUGH SUCH SLOT, THE LAST SAID ARMS EACH HAVING SKI-ENGAGING OUTER ENDS EACH ADAPTED TO ENGAGE THE UPPER LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF AN OPPOSITE ONE OF A PAIR OF SKIS SEATED IN THE SOCKETS OF THE FIRST SAID ARMS, AND MEANS FOR RELEASABLY RETAINING THE LAST SAID ARMS IN SKIENGAGING POSITIONS.