CN1267489A

CN1267489A - Exercising skates with adjustable upper of skates

Info

Publication number: CN1267489A
Application number: CN00101639.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 洛朗·博纳旺蒂尔
Original assignee: Salomon SAS
Current assignee: Salomon SAS
Priority date: 1999-01-21
Filing date: 2000-01-21
Publication date: 2000-09-27
Also published as: DE60007564D1; ATE257335T1; FR2788672A1; EP1021963A1; EP1021963B1; FR2788672B1; DE60007564T2

Abstract

Shoe is placed on frame (20) and has supple boot (3), partially padded and covering foot and lower leg, reinforcing patch (4) with solid sole (40) attached to frame and heel stiffener (41). Supple boot comprises forefoot covering part (30) with rear notch (34). Rear sleeve (31) comprises heel covering part (38) and upright covering of lower leg (39). Forefoot covering part (30) and rear sleeve (31) are linked together to form supple boot (3) with adjusting length.

Description

Skating exercise footwear with adjustable upper

The present invention relates to the device of skating, as in-line skate, traditional roller skate or skate on ice.The present invention also is particularly related to length and the adjustable footwear of volume that are applicable to these skating devices, is convenient to wearing of various different sizes and form.

Inline Motoracing is a kind of sports items that obtain immense success, and popularity is very high, and the number of exercise is increasing all the time.In the middle of these practitioners, many children are ready to drop into this motion.Because exploitation, manufacturing cost and supply rationalization aspect, children's model that manufacturer proposes is few.Thereby being difficult to find a kind of model can correctly be adapted to the size and the form of each child's pin, wrapping foot and transmission cosily supported again simultaneously.In addition, the size of child's pin and volume also will change, and skating boots do not re-use after generally only using some months soon.

Existing solution is the size of regulating the skating boots shell.For example patent documentation US 5475936 proposes a kind of in-line skate, and this skating boots comprise that a shell and one are installed in part on the shell by slide guide device.This assembly method provides the part solution, and just the size of stiffened shell can be regulated.This shell be set be for accept one light in footwear, the shape of this playshoes is not explanation in document US 5475936.Thereby in the adjustable skating boots of the length/volume of document US 5475936, gratifying solution is not proposed for comfortable and problem wrapping foot.In addition, the whole hard coat of describing skating boots owing to the document develops from the alpine skiing footwear, thereby has heat, heavy and air-locked shortcoming.

Document US 5794362 has proposed a kind of sizable boot for sports.This boots comprises a structure with cast molding of sole, and there is a s heel portion at the rear portion of sole, and there is a soft tongue front portion.A ring set hinge joint is on s heel portion.Regulation mechanism is finished by the belt of thermoplastic material, and these belts wrap in around the ankle, to regulate the volume of boots.This boots mainly is made up of a hard coat, have with document US 5475936 in add one light in the identical shortcoming of boots of footwear.On the footwear some sealings are arranged in light, be arranged in the appropriate location,, be used for accepting the shell of various different sizes and volume as heel and anterior lateral position.But this change is unfavorable for the abundant parcel of pin and comfortable.

Applicant's european patent application 878141A1 proposes a kind of footwear of many numbers, and this footwear comprise first and second portion; First forms base, is used to keep the heel that extends along sole, and second portion forms softer vamp, and has a vola to support.Adjust first and second portion according to vertical relative position of determining, and be connected to each other in fixedly connected mode.This method highly significant but does not solve children with the length adjustment problem of skating boots, comprising the filling part around the pin.

Patent US 5842293 has also proposed a kind of skating boots structure that can regulate size.Skating boots comprise the footwear that two duroplasts parts are arranged, a upper portion and a ring set part with sidewise hole, and there are some buttons the side of ring set, is used for being buckled in sidewise hole.Each several part all has some belts that otch is arranged, and is used to regulate the width of each several part and the relative position between the each several part.This structure is quite simple and crude, and adjusted volume very accurately.This patent is not described the Volume Changes how playshoes adapt to two harder parts of footwear yet.As if such structure can not guarantee comfortable.

Purpose of the present invention is exactly the solution that proposes the problems referred to above.Particularly, the present invention proposes a kind of footwear that are suitable for the pin of various different sizes and shape, and regardless of the length of regulating, and can both guarantee parcel uniformly and same comfortable.

In order to reach this purpose and other purpose, design a kind of soft upper of a shoe that comprises filler, soft upper of a shoe is divided into two special parts of assembling with dismountable mode, the assembling mode helps regulating the parcel to pin, and don't can injure zone and other zone that does not have covering and make these zones produce fold.

Or rather, the present invention relates to a kind of footwear of the exercise that is used to skate, this footwear can be regulated on a framework; Described footwear comprise:

A soft upper of a shoe that is suitable for wrapping foot and shank;

A footing comprises a hard sole that is connected with support and a heel lining skin at least;

It is characterized in that:

Soft upper of a shoe has the part and the back footwear tube that is independent of outside the cover part that cover the forward foot in a step, and breach after forward foot in a step cover part has exposes heel, and back footwear tube comprises the part of a parcel heel and the rising part of a parcel shank;

Forward foot in a step cover part and back footwear tube assemble with dismountable mode, form length-adjustable soft upper of a shoe.Particularly, the footwear tube is used for fixing leg; When regulating, move as object of reference with leg the cover part.

According to another feature, the footwear tube has some lateral edge of blocking, so that expose the ankle zone.In fact, the ankle zone is a sensitizing range, can not bear undue thickness.Therefore, the present invention makes every effort to guarantee by the cover part covering of ankle in a regulatory region that is equivalent to effective regulatory region, to keep uniform comfort level.

According to supplementary features, forward foot in a step cover part and back footwear tube assemble the hardness height of the hardness ratio upper of a shoe other parts of sole by two thickness of sole; The length of cover part can be regulated according to required upper of a shoe.This assembling was both simple, and was reliable again.Because its hardness, cover part have guaranteed the vola of good attitude and institute's consideration of regional and have supported.

According to another feature, forward foot in a step cover part and back footwear tube also assemble by the lateral parts that covers each part at least, limit the volume of upper of a shoe between these parts.Therefore, the covering of the lateral parts that the width of pin can be by upper of a shoe is regulated.This covering also guarantees to make well forefoot portion and footwear tube partly to keep as a whole.It also guarantees to wrap up continuously foot, can not produce the uncovered area of local comfort problem.

According to another feature of structure, forward foot in a step cover part comprises a sole portion and a upper portion that is connected with sole portion; Sole portion has a hard tongue, and sole portion is extended to upper portion backward; Tongue covers by part, can stay in the sole portion of back footwear tube to small part.This being assemblied on the length simplified, and can not have particular difficulty ground to implement.

According to another feature highly significant, footing comprises first assembly and second assembly, and first assembly forms the hard base that comprises heel, and heel fused with the hard end; Second assembly is softer, forms the footwear face that covers the forward foot in a step, and has the vola support; Described vola is supported and is embedded base, and is connected with base in the lengthwise position of determining, can regulate by the detachable between first and second assemblies and regulate with being connected; Soft upper of a shoe is inserted in the definite volume of first and second assemblies.

So can the simultaneous adaptation footing and the soft upper of a shoe of wrapping portion or filling.Compare with existing processes, this dual adaptation is unique.It provides conduction and security feature and the sense organ of adjusting power at any time and has experienced characteristic and the possibility of comfortableness.

Can understand further feature of the present invention better by following description as non-limiting example, accompanying drawing is as follows:

Fig. 1 is the side view that comprises the in-line skate of footwear of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the side-looking exploded view of footwear shown in Figure 1;

Fig. 3 is the shell vertical view of the device of accepting according to the present invention to skate;

Fig. 4 is the exploded perspective view of the soft upper of a shoe of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the upper of a shoe stereogram that assembles;

Fig. 6 is the thin portion upward view of upper of a shoe shown in Figure 5;

Fig. 7 is the exploded perspective view of the soft upper of a shoe of a modification of the present invention;

Fig. 8 is the bottom perspective view of modification shown in Figure 7;

Fig. 9 is the exploded perspective view of the present invention's second modification;

Figure 10 is the side view of the footwear after the assembling of modification shown in Figure 9.

In-line skate shown in Figure 1 comprises footwear 1 and row's roller 2, and footwear are fixed on the roller row 2 removably in nonvolatil mode or by suitable jockey (not shown).

The roller row comprise support 20 and a series of roller 21, and the section configuration of support 20 is generally inverted U-shaped, and the transverse axis 22 that roller 21 is arranged by a series of horizontal directions is connected between the both sides of support.

Shown in first example of Fig. 2, footwear are divided into flexible soft upper of a shoe 3 and footing 4.The major function of upper of a shoe is to help the parcel of user's pin and shank and comfortable.Upper of a shoe is assembled by multilayer material, and most is ventilative, light, tear-resistant material.There are charges the inside of upper of a shoe.

According to the present invention, soft upper of a shoe 3 comprises two parts, and these two parts are assembled together, and makes upper of a shoe be adapted to the size and the form of various pin.The cover part 30 that partial design is the forward foot in a step.Another part 31 is made up of a footwear tube that makes progress, and separates with cover part 30.

Forward foot in a step cover part 30 comprises sole portion 32 and upper portion 33, and vamp 33 is by connected mode, and for example stitching is connected with sole portion 32.Upper portion is extended forward to cover toe, extends to the ankle zone backward always.Breach 34 after the cover part had one, and its border is the lateral edge 35 of vamp and the back edge 36 of sole.Back breach has formed one and has not been capped the zone that part covers, and is equivalent to the heel of pin.In vertical direction, upper portion top edge 37 becomes the upper bound of cover part.The cover part is the lower part of upper of a shoe preferably, and its border is positioned under the ankle zone.

Footwear tube 31 becomes the additional part of the back breach 34 of the part that covers pin.The footwear tube comprises the part of a parcel heel 38, and this part upwards prolongs by the part 39 of a parcel shank.The footwear tube also comprises a bottom 56 of supporting heel.The footwear tube has lateral edge 39a and the bottom margin 38a that blocks.In first example, lateral edge 39a upwards enlarges gradually, to guarantee the wrapping up shank bottom well.Compare with the top edge 37 of cover part, the footwear tube upwards extends to top edge 37 places with upper of a shoe.

Footing 4 comprises first load module or hard base; this hard base comprises an outer hard end 40; become hard basis; the support 20 of skating boots just is connected on this hard basis; at Background Region; the outer hard end 40, upwards prolong by heel lining skin 41, and the size of heel lining skin 41 and shape are suitable for keeping and the protection heel.In a possible modification, support can be as a whole with outer hard 40 one-tenth at the end.Ring set 42 hinge joints are on heel lining skin 41.Obviously, ring set has guaranteed the lateral support of anklebone and shank.Ring set preferably also comprises backboard 43, and it leans against on the supplementary support surface of heel lining skin 41, as the back support of leg, and helps seeking back balance.Ring set preferably links by being positioned at the horizontal cardan axle 44 in ankle ring set side, zone.

(not shown) in a kind of modification, ring set can serve as a contrast skin with heel becomes a part, and considers to have the zone of a section attenuation, is beneficial to the relative bending of ring set and heel.

Be provided with the covering footwear face 45 of a semihard in preceding foot, it is in the same place with the component assembling that the outer hard end 40 and heel lining skin 41 are formed.To explain that as following assembling is adjustable.Footwear face 45 comprises lateral parts 47, extends to the zone near heel from the toe cap zone always, but also has the back covering 48 of a heel, and the footwear face is finished at the wall place of contiguous heel lining skin 41.

Footwear face 45 can by the vola support 46 and side direction part 47 be partially submerged in the heel lining skin 41, side direction part 47 parts cover the heel lining skin 41 and the outer hard end 40.

Represent in more detail that as Fig. 3 the vola is supported 46 and inserted bases, be connected with jockey 50,51,52,53 by the adjusting of supporting between 46 in the outer hard end 40 and the vola of base.Regulate and jockey 50,51 each elongated hole 50a, 51a and screw 50b, a 51b who passes slotted hole who drives in the vola is supported is all arranged, these slotted holes and screw constitute the outer end and the common jockey of support firmly together.Device 50,51 preferably is positioned on the longitudinal axis of support.

Can also add other additional adjusting device, as with device 50,51 devices 52,53 of the same type, but ratio device 50,51 departs from the center.Different with device 50,51 is install 52,53 connection footwear faces and base, and be not connected with support.

It is also conceivable that some have only jockey 50,51, or have only the modification of jockey 52,53.

During adjusting, the footwear face can be by distortion or 54 transversely deformings of low-intensity district, to adapt to the lateral dimension of base.These zones are preferably in the vola of footwear face and support in 46, cover in the zone on heel lining skin surface being equivalent to.These zones constitute some deformable apertures longitudinally, allow the strain that the vola is supported in the base.

Be used to cover the detailed assembling situation of the soft upper of a shoe of filling of pin and shank in Fig. 4-6 expression first modification of the present invention.The bottom 32 of cover part 30 comprises a hard tongue 55, and the bottom is extended to vamp 33 places backward.Tongue can be in the bottom 56 of back footwear tube by covering.Tongue is preferably stayed in the bottom 56 of footwear tube, and the edge 56a of footwear tube is passed below the bottom 32 of forward foot in a step cover part.The material of tongue is harder than the other parts of upper of a shoe, the certain form during with bending of assurance integral part and distortion.The material of sole portion also should be harder than the other parts of upper of a shoe.

In one embodiment, lateral edge 39a covers the edge 35 of vamp from the outside.In other words, by covering in the footwear tube 31 inner forward foot in a step cover parts 30 of adjusting.Fig. 6 represents the adjustment position A of an amplification and the position B that is dwindled as an example.

Upper of a shoe is used for being placed on footing.Or rather, the soft cover part 30 of upper of a shoe has occupied the position in the space that the assembling the regulated outer hard end 40 and independent footwear face 45 of base forms.Equally, the soft footwear tube in rear portion is in the volume of heel lining skin 41 and ring set 42 formation.People are readily appreciated that the final adjustment of footwear is by the footing and the length of light interior footwear part and the re-adjustments of volume aspect are finished outside simultaneously.

The structure of cover part can comprise two flange 33a, 33b in its upper portion 33, and they define one and are convenient to the central opening 57 that pin stretches into.Some shuttle units 58 are fixed on the flange, near the edge of opening 57, to pass the tie down device (not shown).Shuttle unit 58 can be cooperated with being connected footing footwear shuttle unit 59 on the face, with staggered mode tie down device is locked (Fig. 3).Described this tie down device among the european patent application 789944AI, the application is with reference to the description of this patent.Adorned an elastic belt 60 at the ankle place, when being beneficial to footwear tube 31 has been stretched in cover part 30, the edge of opening 57 tightens up simultaneously.

Fig. 7,8 is a different embodiment of the present invention, wherein soft upper of a shoe 3 carries out length adjustment by footwear tube 31, the lateral edge 39a of footwear tube 31 enters in the forward foot in a step cover part 30, and the edge 56a of footwear tube bottom is retained in outside the cover part 30, thereby base section has just formed the heel in the base and supports outward.In order to increase the area of coverage between 30,31 two parts, there is an open edge part 61 forward foot in a step cover part 30, between each side sole portion 32 and upper portion 33.Therefore, the edge of footwear tube can pass opening portion 61 and enter, thereby has improved the covering form between two

parts

30,31 of upper of a shoe.

Fig. 9,10 is an another embodiment of the invention, and wherein the cover part 30 of upper of a shoe becomes the outside of footwear in forefoot region, does not have the plastic shoes face.Only guarantee the minimal protection of toe by the adapter of plastic 62 of a semihard, joint 62 directly is connected with cover part 30 by sewing up.The advantage of this structure of footwear is lighter, more ventilative than foregoing structure.

Different with aforesaid way is that upper of a shoe is connected with footing 4 by jockey, keeps upper of a shoe in place when pin was subjected to stress when purpose was exercise.This device should be dismountable, so that can adjust on the length of upper of a shoe.The cover part 30 that therefore can be designed to the forward foot in a step directly is connected with outer bottom 40 in detachable and adjustable mode, and connected mode is a mode shown in Figure 3.Thereby being designed to the length of pin and the adjustment of volume is undertaken by relatively moving of forward foot in a step cover part 30 and footwear tube 31, the result is exactly in footwear between position A and position B, with respect to moving at the hard end 40, as shown in figure 10.

As possible modification, also can be designed to by special detachable apparatus, for example self-tightening device, belt and the assembling modes such as clasp and snap-fastener of Velcro type are the part of soft upper of a shoe, and promptly forward foot in a step cover part 30 and footwear tube 31 are assembled together.

The present invention mainly is upper of a shoe or to the assembling of the playshoes of small part filling, form the first that covers the forward foot in a step, this part can move with respect to second portion, and second portion constitutes a footwear tube, and this footwear tube becomes the upper of a shoe object of reference in place with respect to the footing of footwear.Also particularly in the combination of the adjustable upper of a shoe of shape, this upper of a shoe is packed in the also adjustable footing in the present invention.

Certainly, the present invention be not limited to described just now and shown in embodiment, but included all embodiments that cover in the claim.

Claims

1. can practise footwear with the skating that a support (20) adapts, described footwear comprise:

Soft upper of a shoe (3) to the small part filling, its shape is suitable for wrapping foot and shank;

A footing (4), this part comprise the hard end (40) and heel lining skin (41) at least, and the hard end (40) is connected with support (20);

It is characterized in that soft upper of a shoe (3) comprising:

A forward foot in a step cover part (30), this part be breach (34) after heel area has at least,

A back footwear tube (31) that separates with cover part (30), it comprises the part (38) of a parcel heel and the rising part (39) of a parcel shank;

Forward foot in a step cover part (30) and back footwear tubes (31) assemble removably, form length-adjustable soft upper of a shoe (3).

2. footwear according to claim 1 is characterized in that, footwear tube (31) has some lateral edge of blocking (39a), to expose the ankle zone; This zone is capped part (30) and covers in a length adjustment scope, adjustable range is determined according to effective adjustable range.

3. footwear according to claim 1 is characterized in that, forward foot in a step cover part (30) and back footwear tubes (31) assemble the hardness height of the hardness ratio upper of a shoe other parts of these two sole portions by covering two kinds of thickness sole portions (32,56); The length that covers can be adjusted according to the adjusting of required upper of a shoe.

4. according to claim 2 or 3 described footwear, it is characterized in that forward foot in a step cover part (30) and back footwear tubes (31) also partly assemble by cover above-mentioned two-part side direction to small part in addition, these two parts define the volume of soft upper of a shoe.

5. according to claim 3 or 4 described footwear, it is characterized in that forward foot in a step cover part (30) comprise a sole portion (32) and a upper portion (33) that is connected with sole portion (32); Sole portion has a hard tongue (55), and sole portion (32) is extended to upper portion (33) backward; Tongue (55) is overlapped at least, enters in the sole portion (56) of back footwear tubes (31).

6. according to one of aforesaid right requirement described footwear, it is characterized in that footing (4) comprises one first assembly and one second assembly, first assembly forms the hard base that comprises heel lining skin (41), and heel lining skin (41) is with the end (40) fuses firmly; Second assembly is softer, forms the footwear face (45) that covers the forward foot in a step, and second assembly also has a vola and supports (46); Described vola is supported (46) and is embedded base, and is connected with base on a definite lengthwise position, and this lengthwise position can be by dismountable adjusting and jockey (50,51,52,53) regulate, these adjustings and jockey are between first and second assemblies; Soft upper of a shoe (3) inserts in the definite volume of first and second assemblies.

7. footwear according to claim 6 is characterized in that, footwear face (45) comprises the deformable region (54) of some section attenuation, make footwear face (45) can embed base.

8. footwear according to claim 7 is characterized in that, the deformable region of section attenuation (54) vertically is arranged in the hole of supporting in the vola by some to be formed, and produces distortion when the embedding base is supported in the vola.

9. according to claim 6,7 or 8 described footwear, it is characterized in that the vertical slotted hole (50a during detachable adjusting and jockey (50,51) are supported by the vola at least, 51a) and pass the screw of slotted hole in the hard sole (40) of base (50b 51b) is assembled.

10. footwear according to claim 9 is characterized in that, detachable adjusting and jockey (50,51) become the common jockey that connects footwear and support (20).