US 4,395,826 AGranted

Apparatus for determining a foot size

AssigneeBidegain S.A.

InventorsPierre Bidegain, Georges C. Bidegain, Rolf Baumann, Dieter Baumann

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Abstract

An apparatus is disclosed for determining the shoe size corresponding to a foot, the apparatus is of the type including a foot rest adapted to recieve the foot to be measured and a measuring tape extending transverse to the foot rest, which is fixed at a first end relative to the foot rest, forms a loop over the latter, and is movable relative to the foot rest at its second end to tighten the loop about the circumference of the foot to be measured, and a reading point which is fixed relative to said first end of the measuring tape and is arranged opposite markings which are movable together with the second end of the measuring tape. The device is improved by providing additional reading points fixedly associated with the one reading point and a movable chart carrier which is coupled with the second end of said measuring tape and arranged adjacent to all reading points to receive the markings.

Claims28

Dependent claims

In an apparatus for determining a shoe size corresponding to a human foot, said apparatus including an elongated foot rest adapted to receive the foot to be measured;

an arrangement for foot length measurement having a measuring output;
a measuring tape extending transverse to the foot rest, which is fixed at a first end relative to the foot rest and movable relative to the foot rest at its second end to tighten the tape about the circumference of the foot to be measured;
a movable chart carrier which is provided with a pattern of markings and is coupled with said second end of said measuring tape for jointly moving said pattern of markings with said second end of said measuring tape;
a reading region for reading the circumference of the foot to be measured, which is fixed relative to said first end of the measuring tape and is arranged opposite said pattern of markings;
the improvement comprising:
said measuring tape being constructed and positioned to form a loop about the ball region of the foot to be measured;
said reading region including a plurality of spaced apart reading points corresponding to shoe lengths, all of them being positioned opposite said pattern of markings;
said pattern of markings comprising different marking elements, the number of which being at least equal to the number of shoe width sizes defined for at least each shoe length and being representative thereof;
and
each reading point having associated therewith a controllable signaling means, having a control input connected to the measuring output of said foot length measuring arrangement.

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Apparatus for determining the shoe size corresponding to a human foot, comprising:

means for measuring the length of said foot, including means for indicating the corresponding shoe length size;
means for measuring the circumference of said foot;
a chart having a first coordinate representing measured foot length, a second coordinate representing measured foot circumference, and a pattern of markings including marking elements identifying each of a plurality of different predefined shoe width sizes, each point on said chart being defined by the concurrence of a foot length coordinate value and a foot circumference coordinate value, said pattern encoding each such point with marking elements identifying the shoe width size corresponding to said concurring coordinate values;
means coupled to said foot length measuring means for indicating the foot length coordinate value corresponding to the measured foot length;
and
means coupled to said foot circumference measuring means for indicating the foot circumference coordinate value corresponding to the measured foot circumference, the marking element appearing at the point representing the concurrence of the indicated length and circumference coordinate values representing the shoe width size of said foot.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 06/238,145Filed 25 Feb 1981
Priority: DE 300697625 Feb 1980
Granted: 2 Aug 1983
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G01B 11/02
Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques: for measuring length, width or thickness
A43D 1/02
Foot or last measuring devices; Measuring devices for shoe parts: foot-measuring devices
G01B 5/025
For measuring length, width or thickness: measuring of circumference; Measuring length of ring-shaped articles
G01B
Measuring length, thickness or similar linear dimensions

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