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US 12,108,840 B2Granted
Upper foot carried footwear comfort-enhancing fitment
OwnerJoan Charles Van Den Buschinventor
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A flexible shoe snugging fitment is oblong with a thickness providing pad that is carried on top of a foot, preferably held in place against the foot with hosiery, which underlies and spaces a top part, e.g., vamp, of an article of footwear, e.g., shoe or boot, from the foot snugging the footwear on the foot improving fit and helping prevent relative movement therebetween. A preferred fitment is oblong and transversely oriented relative to a lengthwise fore-aft extent of the foot. Fitment has a central portion from which flaps extend oppositely outwardly that each extend around part of a corresponding side of the foot helping to prevent side-to-side relative movement between the foot and footwear worn on the foot. One preferred fitment is an assembly with a smaller adjuster pad slidably received in a pocket in a pad carrier with the pad extendable to adjust thickness and width of the assembly.
A flexible and compressible footwear fitment for improving comfort of a foot comprised of skin, the foot wearing a hosiery and an article of footwear having a vamp or an upper, the hosiery disposed between the foot and the article of footwear, and the footwear fitment arranged between the hosiery and a top portion of the foot, the footwear fitment is an elongate, flexible, and resiliently compressible pad that is comprised of (a) a single inner layer of a flexible and resiliently compressible uniformly formed closed cell foam having a pair of oppositely facing surfaces, (b) a first outer layer directly and adhesively secured to one of the pair of oppositely facing surfaces of the closed cell foam inner layer, the first outer layer comprised of a frictionally engaging first outer surface configured for frictional engagement with the skin of the foot to prevent sliding movement of the pad relative to the foot when the frictionally engaging first outer surface is disposed in contact with the skin of the foot, the first outer layer composed of a doeskin, and (c) a second outer layer directly and adhesively secured to the other one of the pair of oppositely facing surfaces of the closed cell foam inner layer, the second outer layer comprised of a second outer surface facing outwardly in a direction opposite the first outer surface, the second outer surface adapted for sliding contact with the hosiery worn on the foot, the second outer layer composed of a spandex configured for allowing sliding movement of the pad relative to the hosiery when disposed in contact with the hosiery;
A flexible and compressible footwear fitment for improving comfort of a foot comprised of skin, the foot wearing a hosiery and an article of footwear having a vamp or an upper, the hosiery disposed between the foot and the article of footwear, and the footwear fitment arranged between the hosiery and a top portion of the foot, the footwear fitment consisting of an elongate, flexible, and resiliently compressible pad that is comprised of (a) a single inner layer of a flexible and resiliently compressible uniformly formed closed cell foam having a pair of oppositely facing surfaces, (b) a first flexible outer layer directly and adhesively secured to one of the pair of oppositely facing surfaces of the closed cell foam inner layer, the first outer layer comprised of a frictionally engaging first outer surface the first outer layer composed of one type of fabric configured for frictional engagement with the skin of the foot to prevent sliding movement of the pad relative to the foot when the frictionally engaging first outer surface is disposed in contact with the skin of the foot, and (c) a second flexible outer layer directly and adhesively secured to the other one of the pair of oppositely facing surfaces of the closed cell foam inner layer, the second outer layer having a second outer surface facing outwardly in a direction opposite the first outer surface, the second outer surface adapted for sliding contact with the hosiery worn on the foot, the second outer layer composed of another type of fabric configured for allowing sliding movement of the pad relative to the hosiery when disposed in contact with the hosiery;
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