Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Ventilated
Patent
1994-05-18
1996-06-25
Dayoan, B.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Ventilated
36115, 36 45, A43B 706, A43B 504, A43B 2300
Patent
active
055288413
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a sports shoe, particularly for skates.
Conventional skates, for example of the type with two or more aligned wheels, are essentially constituted by a shoe associated with a wheel supporting frame.
The shoe, or boot, is generally constituted by a quarter articulated to a shell and is usually made of plastics.
An innerboot can be arranged inside the shell and the quarter, and constitutes a padding element to improve the user's comfort.
These conventional skates have the drawback that they do not allow a transpiration, because the foot is enclosed within a substantially tight container, so as to cause considerable sweating during the use of the skate.
This drawback is strongly felt by the users, since this sport is predominantly practiced in summer.
As a partial solution to this drawback, a skate with aligned wheels is commercially known and comprises a plurality of internal ventilation openings.
However, in this type of skate it is necessary to use an innerboot made of transpiring fabric in order to allow adequate ventilation.
Even this solution has drawbacks, since in any case the air does not optimally flow inside the sports shoe, thus limiting beneficial effects for the user.
Furthermore, the openings have fixed arrangements and sizes and therefore the user is not able to vary the degree of ventilation flow according to his own specific requirements, which are due to the different types of sweating of different individuals, to the different types of use of the skate, and to the particular season in which the skate is used.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The aim of the present invention is to overcome the drawbacks described above in conventional skates by providing a sports shoe which allows optimum ventilation of the user's foot.
Within the scope of the above aim, an important object is to provide a sports shoe in which the user can select the degree of ventilation according to his own specific requirements or according to requirements related to the particular season in which it is used or to the particular type of use of the skate (slalom or speed skating).
Another important object is to provide a sports shoe wherein optimum comfort for the user can be achieved together with optimum ventilation.
Another important object is to provide a sports shoe in which ventilation can affect one or more parts of the foot and of the user's leg, said user being able to preset and vary these regions.
Another object is to provide a ventilated sports shoe having low manufacturing costs, and which is structurally simple and easy to industrialize.
This aim, these objects and others which will become apparent hereinafter are achieved by a sports shoe particularly for skates, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of through seats for engaging a plurality of pads which protrude at least inside said shoe.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Further characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description of a particular but not exclusive embodiment thereof, illustrated only by way of non-limitative example in the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a side view of the sports shoe according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a lateral perspective view of the quarter of the shoe;
FIG. 3 is a detail view of the internal lateral surface of the shoe;
FIGS. 4 and 5 are cross section views of the shoe, illustrating the shape of the through seats of the pads associable thereat, according to two different embodiments of the invention;
FIG. 6 is a side view of a shoe according to a further aspect of the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
With reference to the above figures, the reference numeral 1 designates a skate which comprises a frame 2 for supporting two or more mutually aligned wheels 3 and a shoe, or boot, 4.
The shoe is constituted by a quarter 6 articulated to a shell 5.
A plurality of through seats 7 is formed both at the quarter 6 and at the shell 5.
One or more pads, designated b
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Dayoan B.
Josif Albert
Modiano Guido
Nordica S.p.A.
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