Ski heel retainer

Claim 1

A SKI HEEL RETAINER FOR A WATER SKI COMPRISING A MOUNTING PLATE DEFINING A RECESS WHICH IS GENERALLY U-SHAPED IN PLAN, MOUNTING MEANS ADAPTED TO MOUNT SAID MOUNTING PLATE ON A WATER SKI FOR MOVEMENT LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID SKI AND ALONG THE LINE EXTENDING IN THE DIRECTION IN WHICH SAID U-SHAPED RECESS OPENS, AN UPSTANDING HEEL EMBRACING CUP CONSTRUCTED OF FLEXIBLE, A RESILIENT AND ELASTOMERIC MATERIAL AND INCLUDING A LOWER END PORTION SUBSTANTIALLY U-SHAPED IN PLAN, MEANS SECURING THE LOWER END OF SAID CUP TO THE PORTIONS OF SAID MOUNTING PLATE DEFINING SAID RECESS AND WITH SAID LOWER END OPENING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS SAID RECESS, SAID PLATE INCLUDING A LOWER SURFACE HAVING A FIRST PORTION THEREOF ADAPTED TO BE DISPOSED IN SLIDING CONTACTING RELATION TO THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID WATER SKI, THE LOWER SURFACE OF THE PORTIONS OF SAID PLATE DEFINING SAID RECESS BEING LATERALLY AND UPWARDLY OFFSET FROM SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID LOWER SURFACE, THE LOWER END OF SAID HEEL EMBRACING CUP INCLUDING A LATERALLY OUTWARDLY PROJECTING FLANGE, SAID SECURING MEANS INCLUDING MEANS SECURING SAID CUP TO SAID PLATE WITH SAID FLANGE UNDERLYING SAID OFFSET LOWER SURFACE DISPOSED ABOUT SAID RECESS, SAID FLANGE HAVING A PLURALITY OF SMALL DIAMETER APERTURES FORMED THEREIN AND SPACED ABOUT SAID FLANGE, SAID SECURING MEANS COMPRISING A PLURLITY OF EYE MEMBERS SECURED TO AND DEPENDING FROM THE LOWER SURFACE OF SAID UPWARDLY OFFSET PORTIONS, THE LOWER ENDS OF SAID EYE MEMBERS BEING PASSED THROUGH SAID APERTURES AND HAVING ELONGATED HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED FASTENERS SECURED THERETHROUGH.