Athletic shoe
AssigneeAsics Corporation
InventorJunichi Kiyosawa
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Abstract
An athletic shoe which has a sole, an upper body disposed on the sole and having a throat opening for insertion of a foot, a vamp having a U-shaped forward opening elongated from the throat opening, and a shoe tongue disposed to cover the U-shaped forward opening of the vamp. The vamp constitutes a part of the upper body. The shoe tongue has a first shoe tongue piece and a second shoe tongue piece. The first shoe tongue piece is disposed along one of a pair of opposed side rims defining the U-shaped forward opening formed in the vamp and covers a part of the U-shaped forward opening along the side rim. The second shoe tongue piece is disposed along the other of the pair of opposed side rims defining the U-shaped forward opening formed in the vamp and covers the other part of the U-shaped forward opening.
Claims25
An athletic shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- an upper body disposed on said sole and defining a throat opening for insertion of a foot;
- said upper body including,
- a vamp portion which defines an elongate U-shaped opening forwardly extending in a lengthwise direction from said throat opening, and
- a shoe tongue which covers said U-shaped opening along the lengthwise direction thereof;
- wherein
- said shoe tongue includes side portions which are each secured to said vamp at lengthwise separated locations so as to establish respective intermediate sections of said shoe tongue side portions that are unsecured to said vamp along at least a major lengthwise extent of said U-shaped opening between said lengthwise separated locations.
An athletic shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- an upper body disposed on said sole and defining a throat opening for insertion of a foot;
- said upper body including,
- a vamp portion which defines an elongate U-shaped opening forwardly extending in a lengthwise direction from said throat opening, and
- a shoe tongue which covers said U-shaped opening along the lengthwise direction thereof and includes first and second opposed shoe tongue pieces;
- wherein
- said first and second shoe tongue pieces include respective side portions which are each secured to said vamp at lengthwise separated locations so as to establish therebetween respective intermediate sections of said shoe tongue side portions that are unsecured to said vamp along at least a major lengthwise extent of said U-shaped opening.
An athletic shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- an upper body disposed on said sole and defining a throat opening for insertion of a foot;
- said upper body including a split vamp defining an elongate opening forwardly extending in a lengthwise direction from said throat opening;
- first and second opposed shoe tongue pieces extending in said lengthwise direction within said defined elongate opening so as to cover a substantial portion of said elongate opening in said lengthwise direction;
- wherein
- said first and second opposed shoe tongue pieces include respective side portions which are each secured to said vamp at respective lengthwise separated locations near lower and upper regions of said elongate opening defined by said vamp so as to establish therebetween respective intermediate sections of said shoe tongue side portions that are unsecured to said vamp.
An athletic shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- an upper body disposed on said sole and defining a throat opening for insertion of a foot;
- said upper body including,
- a vamp portion which defines an elongate U-shaped opening forwardly extending in a lengthwise direction from said throat opening, and
- a shoe tongue which covers said U-shaped opening along the lengthwise direction thereof;
- wherein
- said shoe tongue includes side portions which are each secured to said vamp at lengthwise separated locations so as to establish respective intermediate sections of said shoe tongue side portions that are unsecured to said vamp along at least a major lengthwise extent of said U-shaped opening between said lengthwise separated locations, and wherein
- said unsecured intermediate sections of said shoe tongue side portions are movable relative to said vamp so as to define a space therebetween.
An athletic shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- an upper body disposed on said sole and defining a throat opening for insertion of a foot;
- said upper body including a split vamp defining an elongate opening forwardly extending in a lengthwise direction from said throat opening;
- first and second opposed shoe tongue pieces extending in said lengthwise direction within said defined elongate opening so as to cover a substantial portion of said elongate opening in said lengthwise direction;
- wherein
- said first and second opposed shoe tongue pieces include respective side portions which are each secured to said vamp at respective lengthwise separated locations near lower and upper regions of said elongate opening defined by said vamp so as to establish therebetween respective intermediate sections of said shoe tongue side portions that are unsecured and movable relative to said vamp to define a space therebetween.
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