US 4,726,127 AGranted

Shoe with heel support and with minimum contact for the ball of the foot, particularly for use after surgery or trauma

OwnerLouis S. Baroukinventor

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Abstract

The present invention concerns a shoe, particularly for post-surgery or post-trauma use, intended to be worn by a patient whose ball of the foot is suffering from an injury or from any sort of damage which may be painful, this shoe comprising an upper (1) which is integral with a block sole (2) of which the posterior part is constituted of a heel (3) which is substantially thicker at the front than at the back. In the invention, the block sole (2) comprises a thin anterior part (4) which extends the top part of the heel forward with the same inclination as the latter and which presents larger crosswise and lengthwise dimensions than those of the foot (P). This thin anterior part (4) is practically indeformable lengthwise and crosswise, but can flex in its height in an area (A) situated essentially at the point of the Lisfranc division of the foot, without coming into contact with the ground.

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Dependent claims

A shoe, particularly for a patient having surgery or injury to a ball of a foot, comprising:

a block sole having a posterior part forming a compressible heel, said heel being substantially thicker at a front thereof that at a back thereof such that a top part of said heel is inclined upwardly and forwardly;
a thin anterior part of said block sole extending forwardly from said top part of said heel and being inclined upwardly and forwardly similarly to said top part of said heel, said anterior part having transverse and longitudinal dimensions larger than corresponding dimensions of the foot and being substantially rigid in longitudinal and transverse directions while being flexible in height in a flexion area at the Lisfranc interline of the foot, dimensions of said heel and flexibility of said anterior part being a function of dimensions of the foot and preventing any contact of said anterior part with ground while standing and walking;
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an upper integral with said block sole.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.