Quick adjusting shoe lacing system

A shoe having a quick adjusting shoe lacing system, said shoe having shoe laces which are laced through eyelet means located on medial and lateral sides of the shoe to define a lacing area of the shoe, said quick adjusting shoe lacing system comprising:

• a cinch plate having a plurality of spaced apart eyelets at an upper region, said eyelets being spaced apart by approximately the same distance as said eyelets means on medial and lateral sides of the shoe, said cinch plate being positioned on the outside of the upper with the shoe laces laced through the eyelet means and cinch plate eyelets;
• a latching buckle with an upper and lower end, said lower end being hinged to one of the medial and lateral sides of the shoe in its quarter region;
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• a link means with an upper and lower end, said upper end of said link means being pivotally attached to said cinch plate, wherein said latch buckle has at least one attachment point for hingedly receiving said lower end of said link means,
• whereby when said latching buckle is in a first open position, with its upper end displaced away from the upper of the shoe, the cinch plate will not be pulled downwardly, but when said latching buckle is in a closed position, with its upper end lying adjacent the upper of the shoe, said cinch plate will be pulled downwardly by said link means, and will thus exert additionally pulling force on said shoe laces looped through said cinch plate.

A shoe with a quick adjusting shoe lacing system, the shoe having an upper with medial and lateral sides, a sole, and utilizing shoe laces, which are cross-laced through a plurality of spaced apart eyelet means located on medial and lateral sides in a lacing area of the shoe, said quick adjustment shoe lacing system comprising:

• a cinch member having a plurality of spaced apart eyelets at an upper region and has a slot located on a lower region, said eyelets being spaced apart by approximately the same distance as are said adjacent eyelet means in the lacing area of the shoe, wherein said cinch member is placed adjacent said upper on one of its medial and lateral sides, and said shoe laces are laced through the eyelet means of the shoe and directly through said eyelets in said adjacent cinch member without first being laced through eyelets on the other of the medial and lateral side and;
• a strap means with a first end affixed in the vicinity of a lower region of the Upper of the shoe, and a free second end, said strap means being positioned on a first side of the shoe to releasably retain and move said cinch member from a first upper position wherein its eyelets are generally aligned with at least some of said adjacent eyelet means, to at least one of several other lower positions, where said cinch member is releasably retained, wherein said second end is looped through said slot and pulled down and retained by retention means, such that said cinch member will exert pulling force on said shoe laces of said shoe which are laced through said cinch member, and thereby selectively offer additional shoe lace tension, which tension can be placed on said shoe laces even after said laces are laced.

A shoe with a quick adjusting shoe lacing system, the shoe having an upper with medial and lateral sides, a sole, and utilizing shoe laces which are cross-laced through a plurality of spaced apart eyelet means located on medial and lateral sides in a lacing area of the shoe, said quick adjustment shoe lacing system comprising:

• a cinch member having a plurality of spaced apart eyelets at an upper region, said eyelets being spaced apart by approximately the same distance as are said adjacent eyelet means in the lacing area of the shoe, wherein said cinch member is placed adjacent said upper on one of its medial and lateral sides, and said shoe laces are laced through the eyelet means of the shoe and directly through said eyelets in said adjacent cinch member without first being;
• laced through eyelets on the other of the medial and lateral side and;
• a buckle means having lower and upper ends, said lower end being hinged at it slower end to the upper of the shoe and positioned on a first side of the shoe to releasably retain and move said cinch member from a first upper position wherein its eyelets are generally aligned with at least some of said adjacent eyelet means, to at least one of several other lower positions where said cinch member is releasably retained, whereby when said latching buckle is in a first open position, with its upper end displaced away from the upper of the shoe, the cinch plate will not be pulled downwardly, but when said latching buckle is in a closed position, with its upper end lying adjacent the upper of the shoe, said cinch plate will be pulled downwardly by said link means, and will thus exert additionally pulling force on said shoe laces looped through said cinch plate, even after said laces are laced.