摘要:
Engaging elements may be included in foot-receiving devices, such as footwear, bindings, clips, or the like. Such elements may include a bimodal spring member movable between two independent stable positions and an arm that moves in response to the bimodal spring member changing between its stable positions. The engaging elements additionally may include a retaining element extending from the arm and/or an arm/bimodal spring interface that induces changes in position of the arm in response to the bimodal spring member changing its stable position. The bimodal spring member, the arm, the retaining element, and/or the arm/bimodal spring interface may form an integral unit. Additionally, methods of engaging a foot-receiving device with a user's foot are disclosed. Such methods may include: (a) orienting a bimodal spring member in a first stable position to place a foot-engaging portion of the foot-receiving device in a foot-accepting position, and (b) moving the bimodal spring member from the first stable position to a second stable position to move the foot-engaging portion of the foot-receiving device to a foot-engaging position.
摘要:
A slipper designed to keep warm the foot of a patient with a foot injury, a patient recovering from foot surgery, a person with chronically cold feet, or a person who lacks the small motor skills to put on regular shoes. The slipper, made from soft, cottony material with a non-slip bottom surface as its sole, has a sole attached to a belt which attaches to a spat that covers the in-step. Two flaps attached to the spat fold over on top of the other side of the spat and fasten together with long fasteners that give a very wide, gentle degree of comfort and warmth to the foot.
摘要:
An outsole for an article of footwear having inclined lugs that protrude downwardly from the bottom of the outsole. The outsole defines an undercut around at least a portion of each lug to permit the lugs to collapse into the outsole when walking on hard, flat surfaces. The lugs in the forefoot portion of the outsole are inclined rearwardly and the lugs in the heel portion of the outsole are inclined forwardly. In a second aspect, the outsole includes a plurality of downwardly protruding ridges that undulate around the profile of the outsole in a generally horizontal direction to provide the profile of the outsole with a gripping surface.
摘要:
A composite, long wearing, slip-resistant non-metal golf cleat that alleviates damage to grass, e.g., the surface of a golf green, yet provides traction similar to conventional metal spikes is disclosed. The cleat provides a slightly higher, rounded, softer center core or tip which provides a measure of slip-resistance when walking on most hard, smooth dry surfaces and a firmer disk portion having multiple wing-shaped extensions to provide traction on turf surrounds the softer center.
摘要:
A shoe insert for adjusting the fit of a shoe on a person's foot. The insert is formed from resilient material and is secured within the heel area of a shoe. The insert is elongated and has a narrow central portion for engaging a person's heel between the heel bone and the achilles tendon, and a pair of enlarged lateral portions for engaging the sides of the heel. The insert also has a tapered thickness which decreases from a thick upper part toward a thin lower part of the insert.
摘要:
An improved wading boot construction 10 including a boot member 20 having an upper portion 22 and a sole portion 21 wherein at least one side of the upper portion 22 is provided with a tongue unit 12. The sole portion 21 is provided with a reinforced sole unit 13 having a strap engaging unit 14 which operatively connects the user's footwear 100 to the reinforced sole unit 13.
摘要:
A fastener which includes a flexible counter strap having a hook on each end with the hooks each being removably attachable to loop portions which are formed in the shoelace when the lace has been tied into a bow and which is further secured by a locking, slidable member.
摘要:
A footwear device (2000) comprises a rigid base (2100) for supporting the foot (2001) of a user thereon, a heel counter (2300) on the rigid base (2100) for contact with the foot (2001) of a user in a first area of the foot posterior to the posterior aspect of the heel of the foot, a medial forefoot counter (2201) associated with the rigid base (2100) for contact with the foot (2001) of a user in a second area of the foot medial to the medial aspect of the head of the first metatarsal of the foot, and a forefoot/midfoot compression member (2400) for contact with the foot (2001) of a user in a third area of the foot located on the dorsum of the foot for exerting a downwardly and rearwardly directed force on the dorsum of the foot. The footwear device (2000) further includes a sports implement interface member (2101) on the rigid base (2100) for interfacing with a sports implement, such as a snow ski, or an ice skate blade or an in-line skate wheel system. The interface member (2101) is movable in a medial/lateral direction with respect to a user's foot (2001) into different positions relative to the rigid base 2100 and includes means for selectively locking the interface member (2101) in one of the positions relative to the rigid base (2100). The footwear device 2000 also includes other features, such as an instep counter (2420) which is pivotable about two different axes relative to the rigid base (2100), stops (2436, 2437) for limiting the pivotal movement of the instep counter (2420), an adjustable heel counter (2300) and an adjustable medial forefoot counter (2201).
摘要:
A cushioning device for cushioning the contact load on a foot during gait. The cushioning device includes a tread of curvilinear shock absorbing elements substantially extending along a basic contact trajectory equivalent to the locus of substantially maximum contact stress during foot rolling. Each shock absorbing element has a triangular-shaped cross section having an inclined face oriented toward the contact trajectory such that each of the shock absorbing elements is flexed away from the basic contact trajectory during stance. As a result, the cushioning device deforms along the basic contact trajectory to a greater degree than on the rest of the device area, thereby equalizing the plantar contact stresses and improving the shock absorbing process.
摘要:
The outsole comprises rigid plates in plastic material which plates are bonded to a sole body in an abrasion-resistant plastic material, projections such as studs being joined to the plates and dampening cushions traversing the sole body and extending between the plates.