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US 2016/0353843 A1Published application
Footwear ventilation structures and methods
AssigneeTBL Licensing LLC
InventorThomas Yeh
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Abstract
Various embodiments of protective footwear are disclosed with improved ventilation characteristics. The protective footwear includes a toe cap having a ventilation channel, and various other ventilation structures to improve heat-transfer properties of the footwear.
Claims20
An article of footwear comprising:
- an upper defining a cavity sized and shaped to receive a foot of a user, wherein the upper is attached to an outsole;
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- a protective toe cap positioned adjacent a toe region of the footwear, the toe cap being effective to protect a forefoot portion of the user's foot from injury and having an arcuate shape with a section arranged to overly toes of the user's foot during use, wherein the toe cap includes a ventilation channel for providing ventilation in the toe region.
A protective toe cap for an article of footwear comprising:
- a hemi-dome shaped body sized and shaped to cover a user's toes once incorporated into footwear, the body having inner and outer surfaces and a ventilation channel extending in a longitudinal direction between a forefoot side and a midfoot side of the body, the ventilation channel being open along the inner surface to allow air to travel along the ventilation channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.