Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
Patent
1987-02-06
1989-03-14
Watkins, Donald
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
36 50, 36119, A43B 1100, A43B 718
Patent
active
048115002
ABSTRACT:
An athletic shoe is described including a sole and a shoe upper attached to the sole and defining a cavity for receiving a foot. The shoe upper has a lacing portion defining lace openings for a shoe lace. The shoe upper further has sidewalls with first and second openings proximate the lacing portion. A supportive sling member is disposed in the cavity and has a widened central portion intermediate opposing side quarters. The side quarters each have a narrowed strap portion adapted to pass through the first and second openings in the shoe upper and extend outwardly therefrom. Means are provided for releasably securing, in an adjustable manner, the outwardly extending narrowed strap portions of the side quarters to the shoe upper, so as to suspend the widened central portion of the sling member in the cavity to provide support to the instep areas of the foot. Preferably the sling member is secured to the show upper by including at least one opening in each of the outwardly extending narrowed strap portions in the path of the shoe lace in an interlaced relation with the lace openings of the shoe upper.
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Jodziewicz Matthew F.
L. A. Gear, Inc.
Lerner Marshall A.
Watkins Donald
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