Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
Patent
1993-03-12
1998-06-16
Kavanaugh, Ted
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Foot-supporting or foot-conforming feature
36 93, 36114, A43B 720
Patent
active
057652988
ABSTRACT:
An athletic shoe formed of a sole, an upper attached to the sole and including an ankle portion extending around the medial and lateral malleoli, and an inflatable bladder attached within the ankle portion. The inflatable bladder has a medial section and a lateral section, with an inlet mechanism for supplying pressurized gas to the interior of the bladder. Weld lines divide the medial and lateral sections into upper and lower portions and prevent the formation of restrictive vertical columns of pressurized gas in the medial and lateral sections.
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Kilgore Bruce J.
Potter Daniel R.
Kavanaugh Ted
Nike Inc.
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