Arch support device

An arch support device, comprising:

• a support member having a periphery shaped to conform to at least part of the periphery of the sole of a wearer's footwear, the member having a longitudinal axis, an upper surface, a lower surface, a forward end, and a rear end;
• the upper surface being contoured to follow the contours of the sole of a wearer's foot, and having a heel region extending from the rear end, an arch region, and a forward region extending to the forward end, each region being designed to lie under the corresponding regions of a wearer's foot when in use;
• the forward region having an upwardly convex contour extending across part of its area;
• the lower surface having an integrally formed waffled region lying under the forward region which has a plurality of indents forming a waffle pattern, and walls of pre-determined thickness separating adjacent indents;
• the ratio of the wall thickness to the width of an indent being in the range from 1:3 to 1:6;
• and
• each indent being of hexagonal shape.

An arch support device, comprising:

• a support member having a periphery shaped to conform to at least part of the periphery of the sole of a wearer's footwear, the member having a longitudinal axis, an upper surface, a lower surface, a forward end, and a rear end;
• the upper surface being contoured to follow the contours of the sole of a wearer's foot, and having a heel region extending from the rear end, an arch region, and a forward region extending to the forward end, each region being designed to lie under the corresponding regions of a wearer's foot when in use;
• the forward region having an upwardly convex contour extending across part of its area;
• the lower surface having a waffled region lying under the forward region which has a plurality of indents forming a waffle pattern, and walls of predetermined thickness separating adjacent indents;
• the ratio of the wall thickness to the width of an indent being in the range from 1:3 to 1:6;
• and
• the diamond shape indents each having two opposite acute angle corners and two opposite obtuse angle corners, the acute angle corners lying on lines coincident with or parallel to the longitudinal axis of the support member.

An arch support device, comprising:

• a one piece support member having a periphery shaped to conform to at least part of the periphery of the sole of a wearer's footwear, the member having a longitudinal axis, an upper surface, a lower surface, a forward end, and a rear end;
• the upper surface being contoured to follow the contours of the sole of a wearer's foot, and having a heel region extending from the rear end, an arch region, and a forward region extending to the forward end, each region being designed to lie under the corresponding regions of a wearer's foot when in use;
• the forward region having an upwardly convex contour extending across part of its area;
• and
• the lower surface having an integrally formed waffled region lying under the forward region which has a plurality of indents of polygonal shape having corners which are not right angles, the indents forming a waffle pattern, and a plurality of ribs extending transverse to one another across the waffled region to separate the indents.

An arch support device, comprising:

• a one piece support member having a periphery shaped to conform to at least part of the periphery of the sole of a wearer's footwear, the member having a longitudinal axis, an upper surface, a lower surface, a forward end, and a rear end;
• the upper surface being contoured to follow the contours of the sole of a wearer's foot, and having a heel region extending from the rear end, an arch region, and a forward region extending to the forward end, each region being designed to lie under the corresponding regions of a wearer's foot when in use;
• the forward region having an upwardly convex contour extending across part of its area;
• the lower surface having an integrally formed waffle pattern lying under the forward region, the waffle pattern having a plurality of diamond-shape indents each having two opposite acute angle corners and two opposite obtuse angle corners, the acute angle corners lying on lines coincident with or parallel to the longitudinal axis of the support member;
• and
• the waffle pattern having interleaved rows of indents extending across the support member, each row having at least two complete diamond-shape indents.