EP0991335B1 - Sportschuh mit einem auswechselbaren dämpfungselement - Google Patents

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EP0991335B1
EP0991335B1 EP98928900A EP98928900A EP0991335B1 EP 0991335 B1 EP0991335 B1 EP 0991335B1 EP 98928900 A EP98928900 A EP 98928900A EP 98928900 A EP98928900 A EP 98928900A EP 0991335 B1 EP0991335 B1 EP 0991335B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B21/00—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts
    • A43B21/24—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the constructive form
    • A43B21/26—Resilient heels
    • A43B21/28—Pneumatic heels filled with a compressible fluid, e.g. air, gas

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  • This invention concerns a sneaker as disclosed by the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such a sneaker is known from US-A-5,224,277.
  • Conventional sneakers with air cushions generally have a definitely shaped air cushion disposed in a heel of a sneaker.
  • Some sneakers have an air cushion formed in a sneaker to provide an anti-shock effect.
  • the air cushion cannot be too thick, so the height of the air filled in the cushion is also comparatively low, with the practical shock-absorbing effect being small.
  • An air cushion disposed in a heel can have a larger space so that it has comparatively large shock-absorbing dimensions.
  • an air cushion often breaks, so a sneaker has to be discarded owing to the broken air cushion, and to date no sneakers have a structure for replacing an air cushion with a new one, resulting in waste.
  • This invention has been created to offer a sneaker combinable with a replaceable male cushion to releasably fit in a female cushion formed in a sole of the sneaker.
  • a feature of the invention is that the male cushion is independently made, and has a plurality of projecting hollow cell bodies and is able to be inflated after the male cushion is inserted in the fernale cushion of the sole, so the male cushion may be secured in the female cushion thereby giving the sneaker a good shock-absorbing function, and being replaceable in case of breakage.
  • a combinable sneaker with a first preferred embodiment of a replaceable male cushion in the present invention includes a sole 1, a female cushion 2 formed integral in the sole 1, and a male cushion 3 fitting releasably in the female cushion 2.
  • a first preferred embodiment of the female cushion 2 formed integral in the sole 1 shown in Figs. 1 - 4, has one or more elongate lengthwise hollow chambers 20 and one or more short transverse hollow chambers 21 in a heel portion which cross chamber 22, forming one or more comers 210.
  • Each chamber 21 has a cross-section of any geometrical shape.
  • Figs 7, 8 and 9 show a first preferred embodiment of a male cushion 3, which has almost the same size as the female cushion 2, releasably fitting in the female cushion 2 and having the same number of projecting hollow cell bodies 30 as the short transverse hollow chambers 21 of the female cushion 2.
  • the male cushion 3 When the male cushion 3 is in a deflated condition, it can be fitted into the female cushion 2, with the projecting cell bodies 30 fitting in the short transverse chambers 21 of the female cushion 2 and abutting at the comers 210.
  • the projecting portions of the cell bodies 30 can be expanded a little to engage the comers 210 in an unreleasable condition so that the male cushion 3 may be firmly secured in the female cushion 2.
  • a hollow tube 32 with an air valve 31 is attached to the male cushion 3 for inflating it. Should the male cushion 3 become broken and deflated, it can be replaced with a new one.
  • Figs. 10 and 11 show a second preferred embodiment of a female cushion 2 of a sole of a combinable sneaker, provided with one or more transverse hollow chambers 21, and at least one transverse hollow chamber 23 is of an unequal inner diameter from the rest of the chambers 21 and it has a larger cross-section in the middle portion of the sneaker the cross-section towards the sides of the sneaker.
  • the chamber 23 of unequal inner diameter engages a projecting cell body of unequal outer diameter of a male cushion 3.
  • Figs. 12 and 13 show the second male cushion 3 combined with the second female cushion 2 of the sole 1.
  • the second preferred embodiment of the male cushion 3 is shown in Figs.
  • a third preferred embodiment of a female cushion 2 is shown in Figs. 17, 18 and 19, formed separate and independent from the sole 1 and releasably combinable with the sole 1.
  • the third female cushion 2 has a plurality of hollow three dimensional chambers 21 equidistantly arranged on the two lengthwise opposite sides to accommodate the same number of projecting cell bodies 30 of a third male cushion 3 to fit therein.
  • the third female cushion 2 may be provided with recessed grooves or depressions 22 on an upper surface or a lower surface only, or on both of them, functioning as supporting ribs or posts after the male cushion 3 is fitted and inflated in the female cushion 2, prevented from disfiguring.
  • the hollow three dimension chambers 21 of the third female cushion 2 have at least one chamber having a different dimension from the rest of the chambers, and one or more corners 210 are formed by a lengthwise chamber and one or more transverse chambers for the male cushion 3 to engage with.
  • the male cushion can be filled with a gas, a fluid, semi-fluid, a liquid or a low percolating large particle gas such as SF2, C2F6, etc.
  • the sneaker with a replaceable male cushion in the present invention has advantages as follows:

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  1. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh, aufweisend:
    eine Sohle (1), die mit einem Innenpolster (2) versehen ist, wobei das Innenpolster (2) eine Mehrzahl von dreidimensionalen hohlen Kammern (20, 21, 22) aufweist;
    ein lösbar in das Innenpolster (2) einsetzbares Außenpolster (3) mit zumindest einem hohlen Zellkörper (30),
       wobei die Kammern (20, 21, 22) des Innenpolsters (2) und des Außenpolsters (3) jeweils einen Querschnitt von geometrischer Form haben, die jeweils dreidimensional und hohl ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    zumindest eine der hohlen Kammern (20, 21, 22) von einem Rest der Kammern abweichendem Durchmesser ist,
    zumindest ein vorstehender hohler Zellkörper (30) aufblasbar ist, um in einem abgeblasenen Zustand in die Kammer (20, 21, 22) des Innenpolsters (2) zu passen und dann mit einem Fluid aufgeblasen zu werden, so dass das Außenpolster (3) in dem Innenpolster (2) festgehalten wird.
  2. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Innenpolster (2) einstückig mit der Sohle (1) geformt ist.
  3. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) mit einem Fluid aufgeblasen werden kann, das aus der Gruppe ausgewählt ist, die aus einem Gas, einer Flüssigkeit und einem große Partikel gering perkolierendem Gas besteht.
  4. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) mit einer Mehrzahl von Nuten oder Vertiefungen in zumindest einer der oberen oder unteren Flächen versehen ist.
  5. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) mit einer Mehrzahl von vorstehenden hohlen Zellkörpern versehen ist, um im richtigen Verhältnis in die hohlen Kammern des Innenpolsters (2) der Sohle (1) zu passen, wobei zumindest einer der vorstehenden hohlen Zellkörper eine von einem Rest der vorstehenden hohlen Zellkörper abweichende äußere Abmessung hat.
  6. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Sohle (1) einen Hohlraum zum lösbaren Einpassen des Innenpolsters (2) darin aufweist; wobei die Kammern des Innenpolsters (2) zumindest eine Ecke aufweisen, die von zumindest einer langen Längskammer und zumindest einer kurzen Querkammer gebildet wird, wobei zumindest eine kurze Querkammer eine andere innere Abmessung als die anderen Kammern hat.
  7. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) in einem abgeblasenen Zustand eine Mehrzahl von vorstehenden hohlen Zellen aufweist, um in die kurzen Querkammern des Innenpolsters eingesetzt zu werden, wobei die vorstehenden hohlen Zellen ein wenig anschwellen, um in die Ecken an dem Innenpolster einzugreifen, nachdem das Außenpolster aufgeblasen ist, wobei zumindest eine der vorstehenden hohlen Zellen von einem Rest der vorstehenden hohlen Zellen abweichende äußere Abmessungen hat.
  8. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) mit einer Mehrzahl von abgezweigten hohlen Zellen versehen ist und zumindest ein hinteres Ende einer Zelle einen größeren Querschnitt in der Mittelachse des Sportschuhs als zu den Seiten des Sportschuhs hin hat.
  9. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) in dem Innenpolster (2) lösbar eingesetzt ist und in einem abgeblasenen Zustand eine Mehrzahl von vorstehenden hohlen Zellen aufweist, um in die kurzen Querkammer des Innenpolsters (2) eingesetzt zu werden, wobei die vorstehenden hohlen Zellen anschwellen, um in die Ecken des Innenpolsters einzugreifen, nachdem das Außenpolster (3) aufgeblasen ist, und dass zumindest eine der vorstehenden hohlen Zellen von einem Rest der vorstehenden hohlen Zellen abweichende äußere Abmessungen hat.
  10. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) mit einer Mehrzahl von abgezweigten hohlen Zellen versehen ist und zumindest ein hinteres Ende einer Zelle einen größeren Querschnitt in einer Mittelachse des Sportschuhs als zu den Seiten des Sportschuhs hin hat.
  11. Kombinierter Sportschuh nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) mit einem hohlen Rohr versehen ist, das mit einem Luftventil verbunden ist, um die vorstehenden hohlen Zellen aufzublasen.
  12. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Innenpolster (2) zumindest eine Aushöhlung aufweist, die entlang einer Seitenwand der Sohle (1) ausgebildet ist, dass der vorstehende hohle Zellkörper zumindest eine Kammer darin bildet, um in die Kammer des Innenpolsters (2) zu passen und dann mit einem Gas aufgeblasen zu werden, und dass das Außenpolster (3) in zumindest einer der oberen oder unteren Flächen davon mit einer Mehrzahl von Nuten oder Vertiefungen versehen ist.
  13. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Innenpolster (2) zumindest eine hohle Längskammer, zumindest eine hohle Querkammer, und eine Mehrzahl von Ecken aufweist, die von der Längskammer und der Querkammer gebildet werden, die einander kreuzen, und dass zumindest eine der Kammern des Außenpolsters (3) eine von einem Rest der Kammern des Außenpolsters (3) abweichende innere Abmessung hat.
  14. Kombinierbarer Sportschuh nach Anspruch 13, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Außenpolster (3) durch Eingriff mit der Mehrzahl von Ecken des Innenpolsters (2) an der Stelle gehalten wird.
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PCT/US1998/011593 WO1998057561A1 (en) 1997-06-16 1998-06-12 Combinable sneaker with a replaceable male cushion

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