Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
Patent
1995-03-28
1997-03-04
Patterson, Marie D.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
36 45, 36 57, 36100, 36115, A43B 720, A43B 504
Patent
active
056068085
ABSTRACT:
A snowboarding boot having a flexible upper portion has one or more somewhat vertical elongate pockets on the surface of the upper portion to receive therein elongate, semi-rigid stiffening stays. Each pocket is formed of flexible material to define a medial channel having an open top and cross-sectional area similar to that of the stiffening stay to be carried therein to allow variable vertical positioning and positional maintenance of the stiffening stays by reason of frictional engagement with the pocket. Stiffening stays are formed of elongate strips of semi-rigid material, normally having some resiliency but being more rigid than the flexible upper portion of a boot, and the stiffening stays optionally carry a loop of flexible material in their upper end portions to aid insertion and removal and releasable fasteners for positional maintenance within a carrying pocket. The pockets extend downwardly from the top of a boot or to the ankle area in vertical or angulated orientation.
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Gilliard James F.
Gilliard Ryan F.
Bergman Keith S.
Patterson Marie D.
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