Shoe treatment
AssigneeDukoz LLC
InventorsMaureen E. Stockton, Eddie Paul, Robert R. Tucker
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Abstract
In accordance with one aspect of the present description, a shoe treatment device is provided having a shoe interior engagement form expandable from a latched, contracted state to an expanded state. A user operated slide actuator positioned exterior to the shoe may drive the engagement form to expand to the expanded state. The slide actuator may be actuated to contract the engagement form back to the contracted state. A latch may latch the engagement form in the selected contracted or expansion state to facilitate insertion and removal and treatment of the shoe. Other aspects are described.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- inserting a shoe treatment device having an expandable, interior engagement form into the interior of a toe box of a shoe while the expandable toe box interior engagement form is in a latched, contracted state;
- unlatching the expandable toe box interior engagement form from the latched, contracted state;
- sliding a movable slide actuator and link member coupling the slide actuator to the expandable toe box interior engagement form, along an arm of the of the device, from a first position to a second position toward the expandable toe box interior engagement form;
- expanding the expandable toe box interior engagement form to an expanded state while in the interior of the toe box of the shoe as the movable slide actuator and the link member slide to the second position, to treat the interior of the toe box of the shoe;
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- latching the expandable toe box interior engagement form in the expanded state while in the interior of the toe box of the shoe.
A shoe treatment device for use with a shoe having a toe box, comprising:
- an expandable, interior engagement form having a contracted state and expandable to an expanded state wherein the expandable, interior engagement form is configured to engage the interior of the toe box of the shoe in the expanded state;
- an arm coupled to the engagement form;
- a movable slide actuator disposed on the arm and configured to slide along the arm from a first position to a second position;
- a link member coupling the slide actuator to the interior engagement form and configured to slide along the arm from a first position to a second position, wherein the expandable toe box interior engagement form is configured to expand to the expanded state as the movable slide actuator slides to the second position;
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- a latch configured to selectively latch the expandable toe box interior engagement form in a selected state of a plurality of states including the contracted state and the expanded state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.