Footwear article provided with means for holding or attaching an object on said article
AssigneeFeetkit
InventorFrédéric Charles
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Abstract
A footwear article provided with a housing to removably hold or attach an object. The housing is arranged to minimize the inconvenience caused by the presence of the object in the housing when the housing of the footwear article is used on the foot, ankle or leg of a user. The longitudinal median axis of the object and/or the housing is located on the rear area of the inside or on the front area of the outside of the ankle/footwear article. The housing provides a storage space for an object such as a Smartphone.
Claims19
A footwear article, made of deformable flexible material, comprising:
- first and second sleeves, which are substantially cylindrical, arranged at an angle of between approximately 90° and 135° with respect to each other, an area of joining between the first and second sleeves corresponding to a heel, the first sleeve is open at an end opposite the heel and the second sleeve is closed at an end opposite the heel to receive toes of a user;
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- an object holder configured to hold at least half of an object which at least one dimension is less than at least one other dimension, on the first sleeve, either in a rear left or a front right 90° quarter for the footwear article for a right foot, or in a rear right or a front left 90° quarter for the footwear article for a left foot, in a cross section of a plane transverse to a longitudinal axis of the first sleeve relative to a longitudinal axis of the second sleeve.
A footwear article, made of deformable flexible material, comprising:
- first and second sleeves, which are substantially cylindrical, arranged at an angle of between approximately 90° and 135° with respect to each other, an area of joining between the first and second sleeves corresponding to a heel, the first sleeve is open at an end opposite the heel and the second sleeve is closed at an end opposite the heel to receive toes of a user, the footwear article configured to be used on a leg of the user;
- an object holder configured to hold an object which at least one dimension is less than at least one other, in at least one of the following two positions:
- a rear part of an inside face of at least one of the user's leg and user's ankle, and wherein the longitudinal median axis of the object is located between a center of a malleolus of a tibia and an Achilles tendon of the user;
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- a front part of an outside face of at least one of the user's leg and user's ankle, and wherein the longitudinal median axis of the object is located between a center of a malleolus of a fibula and a tendon of a tibialis anterior muscle of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.