Boots – shoes – and leggings – Insoles
Patent
1991-07-19
1993-10-12
Meyers, Steven N.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Insoles
36141, A61F 514, A43B 1338
Patent
active
052513874
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a shoe insole in the form of a separate insole insert or an integrated insole attached to the shoe.
DE-U-8 521 944 teaches a shoe insole of this kind, in which below the frontal parts of the foot several grooves are provided running parallel and in a direction oblique to the length of the foot. Between them elastic transverse rips inclined towards the heel are formed, whose apexes are contiguous with the intact upper surface and have a rounded profile.
Documents U.S. Pat. No. 4,109,661, GB-A-1 553 415 and GB-A-2 046 579 disclose shoe insoles with individually positioned, generally rounded projections being above the said upper surface.
The object of the invention is to design an insole in such a way that, contrary to the teaching of DE-U-8 521 944 there is no support of a more or less identical nature across the entire surface of the sole of the foot, but to specify an insole providing in accordance with the teaching of the said three other documents a directed, specific action and stimulation to very few local areas of the sole of the human foot--preferably, when made to order for the wearer, of one localized area only--while avoiding over-stimulation.
In achieving this aim, the invention utilises the generally-known concept that each area of the sole of the humal foot can be associated with an organ in the human body; this concept is used, for example, in foot reflexology massage. The objective is to facilitate a flow of life energy which is an unrestricted as possible and thus to achieve optimal blood supply to the organs on a continual basis and thus, in turn, to promote the flow of life energy. The object so the invention is thus to design an insole in such a way that specific local areas of the sole of the foot are provided with a continual stimulating effect, in the above-described sense.
Starting from the insole of the above-mentioned kink, this object is achieved by the features of claim 1.
The shoe insole in accordance with the invention thus has an essentially smooth upper surface providing even an unstructured support for the sole of the foot. The local depression is only worked into the insole in one small area (in relation to the total area of the upper surface), said depression having a maximum horizontal dimension of, for example, 20 mm; with its preferentially circular execution this depression thus has a diameter of essentially 20 mm maximum. This means that said depression only takes up a small portion of the total area of the upper surface, thus ensuring that the kinetic energy is distributed specifically so as to be utilised naturally. The knob protrudes from the base of the depression to the height which the upper surface would have had were it to remain intact, i.e. without the presence of the local depression. The tip of said knob may protrude slightly above the intact upper surface, or terminate essentially flush with or even slightly below the same. The described arrangement has the result that a section (of relatively insignificant area) of the sole of the human foot remains unsupported; the design of said depression is such that its gently rounded rim effects a gradual transition form support to the lack of support above the base of the depression, thus reducing or preventing stoppages of kinetic energy. If at all, the base should only come into contact with the sole of the foot in the rim zone, and not in the area around the knob; the level of the base is thus adequately sunken in relation to the intact upper surface. The support in the area of the knob is provided solely by the tip of the knob itself. This makes it possible to exercise a selective pressure effect on a specific point or a small area of the sole of the human foot, namely by means of stimulation or positive motivation through massaging of principal nerves. When the wearer is standing, the selected area of the sole of the foot thus receives an essentially constant pressure or is provided with individual, mentality-specific stimulus inciting the wearer to change their standing posture and t
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Cornaby K. S.
Kavanaugh Ted
Meyers Steven N.
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