Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Shoe attachment
Patent
1982-12-02
1985-04-16
Kee Chi, James
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Shoe attachment
235105, A43B 300, G01C 2200
Patent
active
045107041
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to boots and shoes.
BACKGROUND ART
Various forms of pedometer are known, but these are generally in the form of additional attachments to the wearer's person, and are therefore somewhat inconvenient and cumbersome.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is a broad object of the invention, in one of its aspects, to provide an improved boot or shoe which will record, and provide an indication of, the number of steps made by the wearer of the shoes over a period or a value related to such number.
According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a boot or shoe incorporating means for detecting when a step is made, with the foot wearing the boot or shoe, by the wearer thereof, and means for recording and displaying a value related to the total of the steps so recorded.
Preferably there is also provided means for sensing and determining various other quantities, such as elapsed time, distance, speed or the like, and control means whereby the value of a selected said quantity can be displayed.
The boot or shoe preferably has a hollow heel which accommodates said detecting means and said recording and displaying means.
Preferably a display element afforded by said recording and displaying means is visible through a transparent window, which may be provided on the outer periphery of the heel of the boot or shoe, for example on the side surface which, when the boot or shoe is worn faces towards the wearer's other foot, or which may be provided in the insole of the boot or shoe so that the display element is visible when the shoe is removed from the wearer's foot.
It is an object of the invention in another of its aspects to provide an improved pedometer.
According to this aspect of the invention there is provided a pedometer incorporating step counting means arranged to provide an electrical signal for each step detected, and electrical circuitry embodying electronic counting and processing means for counting such signals, and electrical or electronic display means, operable by said counting and processing means, to display numerical quantities derived thereby, and user operable selection means operable to control the operation of said counting and processing means and the operation of the display means by the counting and processing means.
Preferably the pedometer includes electronic or electrical timing means connected with said counting and processing means, the counting and processing means being operable to record elapsed time as well as the number of signals received from said step detecting means, the counting and processing means being operable, by said selection means, to display optionally time or distance related data.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
Embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic sectional view of a shoe embodying the invention,
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of a variant,
FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of a further variant incorporating a microprocessor, and
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the pedometer incorporated in the embodiment of FIG. 3.
BEST MODES OF CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Referring to FIG. 1, a shoe has in conventional manner an upper 1, a sole 2, a heel 3 and an insole 4 extending the full length of the shoe.
The heel is provided with a cavity 3a in which is mounted a mechanical counter 5 having a ratchet wheel 6. The counter has a dial or drum arrangement 7 which displays the count. The heel 3 and insole 4 are provided with aligned windows 8 and 9, for example of transparent plastics material, through which the dial 7 is visible.
The counter is actuable by a push button 11 mounted within the cavity 3a for vertical reciprocating motion. The button 11 has a head 12 at its upper end and a shank 13 extending downwardly from head 12. A spring 14 biases the push button 11 upwardly so that when the wearer of the shoe is not exerting pressure on the heel of the shoe, by supporting, via the ground, any part of his weight through the heel 3, the head 12
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