Sport shoe
OwnerArmin A. Dasslerinventor
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Abstract
A sport shoe construction of the type where a shell edge band peripherally overlies at least a portion of the marginal edge of the shoe outersole and the adjacent marginal edge portion of the upper shaft material, the incorporation of a plurality of mechanical gripping members operatively embedded in said upper shaft material and the interfacially abutting portion of said shell edge selectively positioned to mechanically restrain downward movement of said shell edge relative to the interfacially abutting portions of the shaft material.
Claims16
In a sport shoe, wherein shell edge means peripherally engirdle at least a portion of the marginal edge of the shoe outsole and at least a portion of the shaft material, the improvement comprising:
- a plurality of discrete rod-like mechanical gripping members each having an end embedded in the shell edge means and each having a portion of the body of such gripping member within an abutting portion of the shaft material;
- the rod-like gripping members being constructed, so that the body portions thereof located adjacent the ends of the gripping members opposite the ends embedded in the shell edge means are bent downwardly to form barb-like elememts for mechanically restraining downward movement of the shell edge means relative to the abutting portions of the shaft material.
In a sport shoe, wherein shell edge means peripherally engirdle at least a portion of the marginal edge of the shoe outsole and at least a portion of the shaft material, the improvement comprising:
- a plurality of discrete rod-like mechanical gripping members each having an end embedded in the shell edge means and each having a portion of the body of such gripping member disposed within an abutting portion of the shaft material;
- the rod-like gripping members being constructed so that the body portions thereof located adjacent the ends of the gripping members embedded in the shell edge means are bent upwardly to form barbed-like elements for mechanically restraining downward movement of the shell edge means relative to the abutting portions of the shaft material.
In a tennis shoe, wherein shell edge means extending upwardly from and integral with the shoe outsole peripherally engirdle at least a portion of the adjacent marginal edge portion of the upper shaft material, the improvement comprising,
- a plurality of discrete rod-like mechanical gripping members having one end embedded in the portion of the shell edge means disposed at the toe of the shoe and the body portion of the gripping members disposed adjacent thereto operatively contained within the interfacially abutting portion of the shaft material;
- the rod-like gripping members being angularly disposed so that the portions thereof located adjacent the shoe interior are lower in elevation than the end portions thereof embedded in said shell edge means for mechanically restraining downward movement of the shell edge means relative to the interfacially abutting portions of the shaft material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.