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US 12,329,239 B2Granted
Interchangeable foreparts for shoes
AssigneeColumbia Insurance Company
InventorKenneth Daniel Santos
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Abstract
The invention relates to a footwear kit and method of providing a footwear kit comprising a forepart that can be removably attached to both a left shoe and a right shoe, in which the shoes are substantially asymmetric about a line running from the front to the back of the shoe, and in which the periphery of the forepart substantially matches the periphery of the toe region of both the left shoe and the right shoe.
Claims20
A footwear kit comprising:
- a left shoe;
- a right shoe;
- wherein said left shoe and said right shoe each have a toe region;
- wherein said toe region is substantially symmetric about a first center line running from a front of said toe region to a back of said toe region and substantially asymmetric about a second center line perpendicular to said first center line and running from a left to a right of said toe region;
- wherein said left shoe and said right shoe each has a peripheral shape that is substantially asymmetric about a line running from a front to a back of said left shoe or said right shoe;
- at least one forepart;
- wherein said at least one forepart has a periphery which substantially matches a periphery of said toe region of both said left shoe and said right shoe;
- wherein said toe region has a frontmost edge which is a frontmost edge of said left shoe or said right shoe;
- wherein said toe region covers an entire area until at least three eighths of a distance from said frontmost edge to a backmost edge of said left shoe or said right shoe.
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A footwear kit comprising:
- a left shoe;
- a right shoe;
- wherein said left shoe has a toe region and said right shoe has a toe region;
- wherein said toe region of said left shoe is substantially symmetric about a first center line running from a front to a back of said toe region of said left shoe and substantially asymmetric about a second center line perpendicular to said first center line and running from a left to a right of said toe region of said left shoe;
- wherein said toe region of said right shoe is substantially symmetric about a third center line running from a front to a back of said toe region of said right shoe and substantially asymmetric about a fourth center line perpendicular to said third center line and running from a left to a right of said toe region of said right shoe;
- wherein said left shoe has a peripheral shape that is substantially asymmetric about a line running from a front to a back of said left shoe;
- wherein said right shoe has a peripheral shape that is substantially asymmetric about a line running from a front to a back of said right shoe;
- at least one forepart;
- wherein said at least one forepart has a periphery which substantially matches a periphery of said toe region of said left shoe or a periphery of said toe region of said right shoe;
- wherein said toe region of said left shoe has a frontmost edge which is a frontmost edge of said left shoe;
- wherein said toe region of said right shoe has a frontmost edge which is a frontmost edge of said right shoe;
- wherein said toe region of said left shoe covers an entire area until at least three eighths of a distance from said frontmost edge of said left shoe to a backmost edge of said left shoe;
- wherein said toe region of said right shoe covers an entire area until at least three eighths of a distance from said frontmost edge of said right shoe to a backmost edge of said right shoe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.