Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Occupational or athletic shoe
Patent
1987-02-24
1989-03-14
Kee Chi, James
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Occupational or athletic shoe
36 50, A43B 504, A43C 1100
Patent
active
048115037
ABSTRACT:
A ski boot having an outer shell which contains a front cuff with opposed side portions, a rear cuff and with inner boot having an instep portion being fitted within the outer shell. First and second elongated continuous flexible members each having forward and rearward end portions are provided for maintaining the boot in snug relationship upon the users foot. The first end portions of said members are fixedly secured upon the boot and are then arranged in mutually crossing relationship across the foot of the wearer and with the rearward end portions of said members being engaged to opposite ends of a boot fastener member provided on the rear portion of the outer shell. The ski boot may, in lieu of having first and second members, have a single member which is suitably directed for extending across the toe and/or instep portion of the inner boot and being secured at its opposite ends to the boot fastener. There may also be guide elements fixed to various parts of the boot structure for directing the flexible member, or members as the case may be between their points of fixed securement for direction intersectingly over the front part of the foot of the inner boot.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4160332 (1979-07-01), Salomon
patent: 4196530 (1980-04-01), Delery
patent: 4654985 (1987-04-01), Chalmers
patent: 4711042 (1987-12-01), Morell et al.
patent: 4757621 (1988-07-01), Iwama
Chi James Kee
Daiwa Seiko Inc.
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