Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
Patent
1976-07-23
1977-10-18
Lawson, Patrick D.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
36 54, 36 30R, A43B 714, A43B 2326, A43B 1312
Patent
active
040539954
ABSTRACT:
An orthopedic shoe including: a flat, level sole having a peripheral shape corresponding to that of the bottom plane of a foot and whose toe portion is very broad and of substantially constant width, whose central, metatarsal portion curves rapidly inwardly to a narrow neck connecting the toe portion with a heel portion, the ratio of the widths of the toe and heel portions being approximately 100 to 60, and the ratio of the toe portion to the neck of the central portion being approximately 100 to 40, the inner sole being formed in a plurality of layers at least of one of which is of compressible material capable of permanently conforming to the shape of the bottom of a foot under pressure of wearing; combined with an upper having a counter, a vamp and a toe portion, the vamp including a pair of widely spaced forwardly projecting flaps each including a row of eyelets and extending along the upper parts of the sides of the foot, the toe portion having a wide rearwardly extending tongue for covering the metatarsal arch and including a plurality of openings freely passing a lacing which adjustably connects the flap eyelets; the size, shape and arrangement of the sole, the upper and particularly the vamp, tongue and lacing being such that the shoe fits a foot in a glove-like manner supporting all parts of the foot uniformly and naturally.
REFERENCES:
patent: 716528 (1902-12-01), Flowers
patent: 975576 (1910-11-01), Sexton
patent: 1564232 (1925-12-01), Golden
patent: 2007157 (1935-07-01), Cockrum
patent: 2359681 (1944-10-01), Rovick
patent: 2648855 (1953-08-01), Midgley et al.
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