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Device for high-heeled shoes and method of constructing a high-heeled shoe

AssigneeHbn Shoe, LLC

InventorsBrian G. R. Hughes, Howard Dananberg

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Abstract

Provided is a device for insertion into a heeled shoe, having a rear region positioned to underlying a wearer's calcaneal tuberosity, the rear region being shaped to accommodate a planer surface of the wearer's calcaneal tuberosity, an upper surface of said rear region having a raised portion underlying an area of the wearer's calcaneus immediately forward of the wearer's calcaneus tuberosity; and a forward region positioned to underlie at least a portion of the shafts of the wearer's metatarsals, the second upper surface of said forward region having a raised portion which gradually rises to an apex position to underlie the shafts of the wearer's second and third metatarsals.

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Dependent claims

A device for insertion into a heeled shoe, the device comprising:

a rear region having a foot supporting surface configured to underlie a wearer's calcaneal tuberosities;
a forward region having a foot supporting surface configured to underlie at least a portion of the shafts of the wearer's metatarsals;
a lateral side;
and
a distal side;
wherein the rear region foot supporting surface includes first and second elongated ellipsoid-shaped depressed region, the first elongated ellipsoid-shaped depressed region being 2-5 times larger in area and deeper than the second elongated ellipsoid-shaped region to underlie respectively the lateral and medial tuberositites of the wearer's calcaneus;
wherein the first elongated ellipsoid-shaped depressed region has an elongate axis running in a rear-to-forward direction of the device and skewed in a direction towards the medial side of the device;
wherein the second elongated ellipsoid-shaped depressed region has an elongate axis running in a rear-to-forward direction of the device and skewed in a direction towards the lateral side of the device;
wherein the second elongated ellipsoid-shaped region is shorter in length than the first elongated ellipsoid-shaped region;
and
wherein an upper surface of said rear region has a raised portion configured to underlie an area of the wearer's calcaneus forward of the wearer's lateral and medial tuberosities;
and an upper surface of the forward region is configured to underlie at least a portion of the shafts of the wearer's metatarsals, the upper surface of said forward region having a generally rounded or ellipsoid shape raised portion which rises to an apex configured to underlie the shafts of the wearer's second and third metatarsals.

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Facts

Application: 15/819,951Filed 21 Nov 2017 · continuation in part
Priority: 1 Mar 2016
Published: US 2018/0092429 A15 Apr 2018
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A43B 7/141
With pads or holes on one or more locations, or having an anatomical or curved form: having an anatomical or curved form
A43B 7/1425
Characterised by the location under the foot: situated under the ball of the foot, i.e. the joint between the first metatarsal and first phalange
A43B 7/144
Characterised by the location under the foot: situated under the heel, i.e. the calcaneus bone
A43B 7/1445
Characterised by the location under the foot: situated under the midfoot, i.e. the second, third or fourth metatarsal

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Application15/057,925Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 1 Mar 2016
US 2018/0092429 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Apr 2018
US 10,390,587 B2Related patent
US 2017/0251749 A1Published application
US 10,477,915 B2This patent

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