Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Occupational or athletic shoe
Patent
1996-11-18
1998-01-06
Sewell, Paul T.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Occupational or athletic shoe
36136, A43B 719, A43B 720
Patent
active
057041407
ABSTRACT:
A training device has a ramp means to be worn on a bottom of a sole of a shoe which has an upper section with toe and heel portions and an ankle portion above the heel portion. The sole has longitudinally spaced apart heel and toe sections and the training device and the ramp means having an underside contoured to be placed against the bottom of the sole. The ramp means has, in substantially longitudinal serial relationship, a ramp down section, a parallel section, and a ramp up section. The ramp down section ramps away from the underside in a heel to toe direction with reference to the shoe. The parallel section has a parallel surface that is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the underside and longitudinally extends from the ramp up surface in the heel to toe direction. The ramp up section ramps away from the parallel surface to the underside. The training device includes a shoe attaching means for attaching the ramp means to the shoe and the ramp means has a longitudinal length shorter than the sole. The training device may further include an ankle support wrapped around the ankle portion of the shoe under a strapping means of the shoe attaching means. The parallel section of the ramp means may be positioned under an instep section of the shoe and the ramp down section may be positioned under a ball area of the sole which substantially corresponds to a position in the shoe for supporting a ball of the foot.
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Rosen Steven J.
Sewell Paul T.
Stashick Anthony
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