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AssigneeHTM Sport- und Freizeitgeraete Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHeinz Wittmann, Francesco Caeran, Martin Elsner
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A sports shoe, in particular a ski boot, which has a sole and an upper part formed of plastic and which has two pressure-distributing plates arranged on the outside of the upper part in the front instep area, which plates extend from the toe area of the shoe over the instep area and, bent upwardly, along the front side of the shaft of the shoe, and which are supported in the fore-foot part of the upper part for movement in a longitudinal direction of the shoe relative to the upper part and in transverse direction of the shoe, and overlap one another in the closed state of the shoe. At least one of the pressure-distributing plates is mounted in the instep area with one or several hinges on the upper part of the shoe, which hinges enable a swinging movement of this pressure-distributing plate away from the other pressure-distributing plate for opening wide the instep area.
In a ski boot having a sole, a frontwardly open upper part and an upwardly open front instep area with two pressure-distributing plates arranged on an outside area of said upper part and said front instep area, said plates extending from a toe area of said ski boot over said front instep area and are bent upwardly along a front side of said upper part of said ski boot and are supported in said front instep area for movement in a longitudinal direction of said ski boot relative to said upper part and for movement in a transverse direction of said ski boot, and overlap to close said open front instep area and said open upper part, the improvement comprising wherein at least one of said pressure-distributing plates is hingedly mounted in said front instep area for movement about at least one fixed hinge on said front instep area of said ski boot, said at least one fixed hinge enabling a pivoting movement of one of said pressure-distributing plates away from the other of said pressure-distributing plates for facilitating an opening of said front instep area and said upper part.
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