Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
Patent
1995-01-30
1995-11-28
Hilliard, Thomas P.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
36 94, 36 71, A43B 714
Patent
active
054696410
ABSTRACT:
The custom ballet pointe shoe, with the capability to adjust the internal volume of the ballet pointe shoe, to custom-fit to the dancers foot, allowing for equalizing the vertical weight bearing to be distributed across all toes and front of the foot in all ballet "Sur le pointe" positions. The pointe shoe has a built-in sock liner covering the front of the foot, and establishing the space, closed cavity, between the front of the foot and the unshaped box of the ballet pointe shoe. After inserting the foot into the pointe shoe, the cavity is filled with the product or mixture of products, which has the capability to harden and cure, taking the permanent shape of the inserted dancers foot. The present method makes the shoe comfortable, the weight is now equally distributed, not just on the tops of the toes, but also on the whole front of the foot, when the dancer is in a "Sur le pointe" position.
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