Triconi - steel serrated heels on the soles of mountain boots (boots for mountaineering and mountaineering ), which were widespread in the first half of the 20th century. They got the name from the Swiss company Tricouni, which has been producing them since 1912 (the name corresponds to the nickname of the inventor of the trikoni of the Geneva jeweler and mountaineer Felix-Valentin Genecand (Félix-Valentin Genecand, "Tricouni"; 1878-1957) [1] .
In the USSR , shoes themselves with metal heels stuffed on them were also called trikons [2] .
Content
- 1 Manufacturing Options
- 2 Use
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
Manufacturing Options
The shape of the tricones and the method of their attachment could vary [3] , but, as a rule, the tricones covered the welt of the sole. Instead of individual brackets, a whole metal plate with teeth could be packed on the heel of the boot. Triconi were attached to the sole and welt of the boot either with special nails and staples (about 25 mm long), or with screws. Triconi were made of mild non-hardened steel.
Until about the beginning of the 1980s , in the USSR, two versions of triconded ( tipped ) boots were industrially produced: mountaineering (triconi fastened with brackets and covered the boot welt) and geological (flat triconi attached to the sole with screws).
Usage
Rejected boots were used by climbers and mountain tourists , as well as geologists and military personnel of mountain rifle divisions (mainly Swiss, German and Austrian armies). Climbing cats could be worn on top of the trikon.
- Advantages of tricons: the boots they upholstered perfectly kept on almost any type of terrain: on rocks , talus , uncruff firn and ice , as well as on wet grass .
- Disadvantages of tricone: a significant increase in the mass of the boot they upholstered, wear and the need to replace worn or lost heel-caps. Also in cold weather, the legs of an athlete shod in rejected shoes froze stronger (due to the constant proximity of the metal to the leg).
Opened boots were widely used until the advent of mountain boots with rubber or polyurethane soles with a tread type of "vibram" (from the name of the company Vibram ), completely replacing the triconi.
In fact, the use of tricone was associated with an era in Soviet mountaineering. The song of the bard from Krasnoyarsk Igor Popov [4] begins with the words about tricons: "The measured grinding of your tricons ... "
At present, overseas triconi continue to be used only by individual representatives of professions related to work in the mountains ( shepherds , geologists , etc.), who often have to move along steep, wet grassy slopes or other mountainous terrain.
In our country, tricons continue to be actively used on the Krasnoyarsk Pillars , however, they do not replace the traditional methods of insurance when moving on rocks.
See also
- Trekking boots
Notes
- ↑ Dominique Ernst. Félix "Tricouni", montagnard du Salève et inventior génial (fr.) . Le Messager: Genevois, p. 24 (January 16, 2014). Date of treatment February 28, 2016.
- ↑ Russian Humanitarian Encyclopedic Dictionary (Inaccessible link - history ) . Yandex. Dictionaries Date of treatment November 23, 2009. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Some Old Boot Nailing Methods . The West Australian Oldies' Climbing Group. Date of treatment November 23, 2009. Archived December 6, 2009.
- ↑ Krasnoyarsk pillars . Date of treatment November 23, 2009. Archived April 11, 2012.
Literature
- L. Gutman, S. Khodakevich, I. Antonovich. Mountaineering technique. A manual for beginners . - M .: State Publishing House "Physical Culture and Sport", 1939.