DOUGLAS S JACK
Broker in Montgomery, MA

4274571, Jun 23, 1981

Mar 4, 1980

6/127190

Earl W. Lafreniere - Russell MA
Douglas S. Jack - Montgomery MA

A45C 7100

294147

A hand-held carrier for a pair of skis and a pair of poles includes a pair of confrontable clamping members hingedly interconnected at their lower ends. The members when in confrontation define a pair of adjacent ski-receiving openings (each for receiving the mid-section of a ski) and a pair of adjacent pole-receiving openings, (each for receiving the mid-section of a pole). The upper ends of the clamping members are releasably interengaged and are latched together by a latching means. A pivotable handle is mounted on one of the clamping members and may be swung as to allow a reduction in the space required by the carrier when loaded onto a car rack, thereby permitting the use of a greater plurality of carriers and supported skis and poles on a particular car. When the skis and poles are clamped in their openings, their longitudinal axes extend in parallelism and perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the clamping members with the skis and poles being disposed in a side-by-side relationship in a single plane. The assembly may be conveniently carried by the handle and may be conveniently secured relative to a carrier atop a vehicle.