Thermal-insulating inner-boot for mountain boots and high thermal-insulation mountain boot
AssigneeCalzaturificio S.C.A.R.P.A. S.p.A.
InventorsDavide Parisotto, Marco Bettin
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Abstract
A thermal-insulating inner-boot for mountain boots comprising: an upper with a thermal-insulating structure, which is shaped so as to cover the user's foot and lower part of the leg; and a plate-like insole with a thermal-insulating structure, which is arranged to close the lower opening of the upper so as to cover the sole of the user's foot; the upper being shaped substantially like an overturned funnel, and including a single-piece knitted fabric structure which has, inside itself, at least one cavity-wall and also at least one sheet/piece of soft and flexible thermal-insulating material that is stably trapped within said cavity-wall.
Claims15
A thermal-insulating inner-boot (1) for mountain boots (100), the inner boot comprising:
- an upper (2) with a thermal-insulating structure, which is shaped so as to cover the user's foot and the lower part of the leg;
- and a plate-like insole (3) with a thermal-insulating structure, which is arranged to close a lower mouth of the upper (2) so as to cover the sole of the user's foot;
- wherein said upper (2) is shaped in a form of an overturned funnel and is longitudinally divided into a top tubular segment (2a) and a bottom tubular segment (2b) that seamlessly join to one another:
- the top tubular segment (2a) is shaped so as to contain the lower part of the user's leg;
- the bottom tubular segment (2b) is shaped so as to contain at least the lower part of the user's foot;
- the thermal-insulating inner-boot being characterised in that the upper (2) includes is a single-piece structure made of knitted fabric (5, 6, 7) that has a wall provided with at least one cavity-wall (8);
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- at least one sheet/piece of soft and flexible thermal-insulating material (9, 10) which is stably trapped within said cavity-wall (8) to form a thermal-insulating padding of the upper;
- wherein the bottom tubular segment (2b) of the upper (2) includes at least one first sector of said single-piece structure made of knitted fabric (5, 6, 7), which first sector has a double layer knitted structure so as to form the cavity-wall (8) accommodating said at least one sheet/piece of soft and flexible thermal-insulating material (9, 10);
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- wherein the top tubular segment (2a) of said upper (2) includes at least one second sector of said single-piece structure made of knitted fabric (5, 6, 7), which is contiguous to said first sector, has a single-layer knitted structure and seamlessly joins to said first sector having the double layer knitted structure.
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