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US 2008/0072452 A1Published application
Packaged shoes
OwnerYoko Nakayamainventor
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A pair of casual shoes such as flip-flops are packaged for sale so as to have the general appearance of an essentially spherical ball. Each shoe has a flexible sole portion and an upper portion connected to at least part of the periphery of the sole portion by stitching, which extends around the entire sole portion periphery. The sole portion of each shoe is flexed generally into a U-shape and also is flexed transversely to the length thereof, and then the two U-shapes are interfitted with the toe and heel regions of one shoe fitting against the instep region of the other shoe. An elongate cord is laced between the stitching around the peripheries of the two sole portions so as to hold the two shoes together in the ball shape but removal of the cord release the two shoes for separation and opening out into a pair of flip-flops.
A packaged pair of casual shoes each shoe of said pair comprising a flexible sole portion having a periphery, and an upper portion connected to at least a part of the periphery of the sole portion by stitching, said sole portion having a toe region at one end thereof, a heel region at the other end thereof and an instep region between said toe and heel regions, and each sole portion of each shoe being flexed round generally into a U-shape to be interfitted with the flexed round sole portion of the other shoe with the toe and heel regions of one shoe fitting against the instep region of the other shoe, and a connecting element arranged around the peripheries of the interfitting sole portions to hold together adjacent parts of said peripheries, whereby release of said connecting element allows the two shoes to be separated for opening out into a pair of casual shoes.
A packaged pair of flip-flop shoes each shoe of said pair comprising a flexible sole portion having a periphery, said sole portion comprising a toe region at one end thereof, a heel region at the other end thereof and an instep region between said toe and heel regions, an upper portion formed in two parts each of which parts is connected by stitching to the instep region of the periphery of the sole portion at opposed parts thereof, each of said parts of the upper portion having a forwardly extending strip and each of said strips being attached together and to the toe region of the sole portion so as thereby to form a toe post for the shoe, and each sole portion of each shoe being flexed round generally into a U-shape to be interfitted with the flexed round sole portion of the other shoe with the toe and heel regions of one shoe fitting against the instep region of the other shoe, and an elongate cord laced between the stitching of the two shoes to interconnect said peripheries thereof, the cord having two ends secured together to resist separation of the shoes but removal of the cord releases the two shoes for separation and opening out into a pair of flip-flops.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.