Shoe construction and closure components thereof
OwnerRichard J. Tracyinventor
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Abstract
The shoe construction generally includes a closure component having a set of interleaved, opposed stretchable fingers, and a stretchable cord securing the ends of the fingers together. The fingers are composed of stretchable material to grip the foot in a yieldable manner. Such a shoe construction and closure component is comfortable, due to the stretchable cord and fingers which expand during walking or running. Moreover, the resilient and stretchable closure component of the present invention, at the same time, aslo fits snugly against the upper contours of the foot to provide a new form of comfortable support. At the same time, in some forms of the novel construction of the present invention, it can be slipped on or off the foot, without undoing, or otherwise altering the closure component.
Claims19
A shoe construction, comprising:
- a foot receiving body portion having means defining a front access opening;
- a closure component having at least one transversely extending individual finger means disposed at least partially over said access opening;
- cord means secured between said finger means and the body portion;
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- said finger means and said cord means being composed of stretchable material to stretch in opposition to one another to permit the foot to enter the shoe and to snap back resiliently to a closed position to enable said closure to confine yieldingly the foot of the user;
- said finger means including eyelet means receiving an intermediate portion of said cord means threaded therethrough;
- means for attaching adjustably the end portions of said cord means to said body portion to enable said cord means to be tensioned adjustably in opposition to said finger means.
In a shoe construction having a foot receiving body portion including a foot access opening, an arrangement comprising:
- a closure component having at least one transversely extending individual finger means disposed at least partially over said access opening;
- elongated cord means secured between said finger means and the body portion;
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- said finger means and said cord means being composed of resilient material to stretch in opposition to one another to permit the foot to enter the foot receiving portion and then to retract resiliently to a closed position to enable said closure to confine yieldingly the foot of the user;
- said finger means including eyelet means receiving an intermediate portion of said cord means threaded therethrough;
- means for attaching adjustably the end portions of said cord means to said body portion to enable said cord means to be tensioned adjustably in opposition to said finger means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.