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US 6,681,502 B1Granted
Sandal
OwnerChristian Birkenstockinventor
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Abstract
A sandal with a shoe bottom with raised sole rims on either side of the shoe bottom, a foot support bed incorporated in the shoe bottom, an upper strapping material, and a cover sole connected to the shoe bottom and having raised edge regions aligned with and extending past the raised sole rims on either side of the shoe bottom. The raised edge regions each form a lateral fastening portion for attachment to the upper strapping material.
Claims25
A sandal comprising:
- a shoe bottom with raised sole rims on either side of the shoe bottom, an outwardly facing recess extending along an edge of at least one of the raised sole rims, and an upper surface, wherein the upper surface includes a contoured footbed adapted to coincide with the plantar surface of the foot;
- an upper strapping material with an edge region positioned in the recess;
- a cover sole connected to the upper surface of the shoe bottom, and having raised edge regions aligned with and extending past the raised sole rims on either side of the shoe bottom;
- wherein the raised edge regions each form a lateral fastening portion for attachment to the upper strapping material.
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A shoe bottom comprising:
- a bottom sole portion and an interior sole portion between which a stabilizing layer is disposed, wherein the interior sole portion includes a contoured footbed adapted to coincide with the plantar surface of the foot with an upwardly extending sole rim that surrounds the footbed;
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- a cover sole fastened as an insole connected to the shoe bottom, and having raised edge regions extending past the sole rims along the two lateral sides of the shoe bottom;
- wherein the raised edge regions each form a lateral fastening portion for attachment to upper strapping material, and the stabilizing layer extends to or past the raised edge regions of the cover sole and is fastened to an inside surface of the upper strapping material.
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A sandal comprising:
- a shoe bottom with raised sole rims on either side of the shoe bottom, and an upper surface, wherein the upper surface includes a contoured footbed adapted to coincide with the plantar surface of the foot;
- an upper strapping material;
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- a cover sole fastened to the upper surface of the shoe bottom, wherein the top surface of the cover sole parallels the upper surface of the contoured footbed, the cover sole having raised edge regions aligned with and extending past the raised sole rims on either side of the shoe bottom, wherein the raised edge regions each form a lateral fastening portion for attachment to the upper strapping material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.