Lock for skis

Claim 1

A lock for use with a pair of skis placed bottom to bottom, each ski having a tip portion and a tail portion each of relatively broad and thin cross section and having a midsectional portion of relatively narrow and thick cross section, and each ski being bowed with a bottom camber, the lock comprising the combination of a lock body and a shackle for lockable connection with the lock body, the shackle rigidly formed in the shape of a squared U and having two parallel legs, the shackle including a central tongue disposed parallel to the shackle legs and having a minimum thickness substantially equal to the distance between the bottoms of the skis along their midportions when the tip and tail portions of the skis are in engagement, the shackle and lock body when locked together defining an enclosed free space into which the tongue extends for lockably retaining the skis, the length of the enclosed free space being less than the maximum but greater than the minimum width of the skis, and the width of the enclosed free space being less than the sum of the maximum thicknesses of the skis but at least as great as the sum of the thicknesses of the skis at the point along the length the skis where the width of the skis is equal to the length of the enclosed free space.