EP2303046A2 - Chaussure, par exemple chaussure à tige haute - Google Patents

Chaussure, par exemple chaussure à tige haute

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EP2303046A2
EP2303046A2 EP09765895A EP09765895A EP2303046A2 EP 2303046 A2 EP2303046 A2 EP 2303046A2 EP 09765895 A EP09765895 A EP 09765895A EP 09765895 A EP09765895 A EP 09765895A EP 2303046 A2 EP2303046 A2 EP 2303046A2
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Prior art keywords
tongue
shoe
holding unit
slot
edge
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EP2303046B1 (fr
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Andreas Settele
Hendrik BRÖDENFELD
Iztok Nemc
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Lowa Sportschuhe GmbH
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Lowa Sportschuhe GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
    • A43B5/04—Ski or like boots
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B23/00—Uppers; Boot legs; Stiffeners; Other single parts of footwear
    • A43B23/26—Tongues for shoes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
    • A43B5/002—Mountain boots or shoes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
    • A43B5/04—Ski or like boots
    • A43B5/0401—Snowboard boots
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43C—FASTENINGS OR ATTACHMENTS OF FOOTWEAR; LACES IN GENERAL
    • A43C11/00—Other fastenings specially adapted for shoes
    • A43C11/008—Combined fastenings, e.g. to accelerate undoing or fastening
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43C—FASTENINGS OR ATTACHMENTS OF FOOTWEAR; LACES IN GENERAL
    • A43C11/00—Other fastenings specially adapted for shoes
    • A43C11/20—Fastenings with tightening devices mounted on the tongue
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43C—FASTENINGS OR ATTACHMENTS OF FOOTWEAR; LACES IN GENERAL
    • A43C7/00—Holding-devices for laces
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/37—Drawstring, laced-fastener, or separate essential cooperating device therefor
    • Y10T24/3703—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing
    • Y10T24/3724—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing having lacing wound thereabout or wedged therein

Definitions

  • Shoe for example a high-heeled shoe
  • the invention relates to a shoe, for example a high-heeled shoe, such as mountaineering boots, hiking boots or the like, comprising a shaft with a extending from an upper edge of the shaft and extending in the direction of the toe slot, a substantially along the slot extending tongue, and one of the tongue associated tongue holding unit, which at least makes it difficult for the tongue to slide sideways in the closed state of the shoe.
  • a shoe for example a high-heeled shoe, such as mountaineering boots, hiking boots or the like, comprising a shaft with a extending from an upper edge of the shaft and extending in the direction of the toe slot, a substantially along the slot extending tongue, and one of the tongue associated tongue holding unit, which at least makes it difficult for the tongue to slide sideways in the closed state of the shoe.
  • a hook or on the tongue to provide loop-shaped retaining element.
  • This holding element is when inserting the shoe into the closure device, for example, the two ends of a shoe lace, hung or inserted to prevent by pulling upwards lateral slipping of the tongue.
  • This effect can only be achieved effectively by the known holding element when the tongue is in an ideal position in which it runs in accordance with the instep of a "standard foot" of an ideal carrier defined for the respective shoe construction.
  • the position of the holding element changes together with the tongue starting from this ideal position downwards, whereby the holding element is loaded by the laces running at this point in such a way that ultimately the risk of tearing off of the holding element of the tongue exists.
  • the wearer of the shoe has a high back of the foot, then the retaining element position moves upwards with the tongue. As a result, the crossed ends of the shoelace can hardly grasp the holding member, so that it loses its effect.
  • each of the two opposite edges of the slot is associated with a holding element, which is engageable with the tongue holding unit in positive holding engagement and on the tongue holding unit, at least when it moves in the closed state of the shoe, starting from a desired position in a direction away from the associated edge direction, exerts a tensile force.
  • the tongue-holding unit can be properly engaged with the crossed ends of the lace only when the wearer has the "standard foot” for which this shoe is designed, or a lower instep foot than the " Normfuß ", ie can not be brought into engagement with the intersecting ends of the lace when the foot of the wearer has too high instep, the tongue holding unit according to the invention can be brought into engagement with the two Gareiementen regardless of the shape of the foot.
  • the engagement of the tongue holding unit with the shoe lace results in a kind of "downhill force" due to the oblique course of the lace from one edge of the slot to the other edge still has a relatively low value due to the relatively flat slope of the shoe lace.
  • the value of this force depends on which force directed in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the slot, the shoelace ends act from below on the retaining element.
  • the holding elements according to the invention can be brought into positive holding engagement with the tongue holding unit. This ensures that the pulling force emanating from the holding elements and directed essentially in the transverse direction of the shoe can be introduced into the tongue holding unit in full height. Due to the interaction of the two opposite edges of the slot associated holding elements, the tongue can thus be kept regardless of the shape of the foot of the shoe wearer in the desired desired position.
  • the at least one retaining element may comprise, for example, a retaining loop which extends from the associated edge of the slot and after deflection by the tongue retaining unit to the associated edge is returned.
  • this retaining loop may be formed by a portion of a shoe lace serving to close the shoe. Note that, in this connection, since the lace is guided from a first hook and loop member disposed at a contemplated edge of the slot to the tongue holding unit and after deflection, the course pattern of the lace in the tongue holding unit area deviates from the conventional cross pattern returns to the same slot edge by the tongue holding unit.
  • the lace can fulfill its closing function, since, when a pulling force is exerted on both free ends of the lace, which has already been deflected by the tongue holding unit, this tensile force is transmitted to the other edge of the slot by the tongue holding unit.
  • the tongue holding unit may for example comprise an abutment element, which is associated with both holding elements together.
  • the abutment element may be a deflecting element, which is associated with both holding straps together.
  • the tongue holding unit is formed separately from the tongue and secured thereto. This, too, on the one hand facilitates the manufacture of the shoe according to the invention and on the other hand ensures a sufficient strength of the tongue holding unit, since in this case it can be made of a relatively rigid material, in contrast to the relatively soft material of the tongue.
  • the tongue holding unit for example, as a stamped and bent part, preferably made of sheet metal, be made.
  • the tongue holding unit can comprise a spacing element, which can preferably be placed on the tongue by means of a contact plate, and a hook plate which is arranged at the end of the spacing element facing away from the tongue and at least in two the two projecting circumferential areas of the contactor projects radially beyond the spacer element.
  • the two sections of the hook plate projecting beyond the spacer element form hook elements which, in the closed state of the shoe, secure the holding elements on the tongue holding unit.
  • Another such hook element can be formed in that the hook plate also projects radially beyond the spacer element in a peripheral region facing the shoe tip, preferably over the entire circumference of the spacer element.
  • this additional hook element can take over the function of a conventional hook element, as it is also present in the conventional shoes of the prior art.
  • the hook elements discussed above may all be formed by the hook plate projecting beyond the spacer over substantially its entire circumference, including at least a portion of greater radial extent and at least a portion of minor radial extent beyond the spacer.
  • the largest radial extent does not necessarily have to be present in the circumferential areas facing the two opposite edges of the slot or the peripheral area facing the toe.
  • the projecting beyond the spacer radial extent of the hook plate in at least one peripheral portion, preferably those four peripheral portions, which is largest or which with the tongue longitudinal axis at an angle of between about 30 ° and about 60 °, preferably about 45 °.
  • peripheral sections are connected to one another with the greatest radial extension, as long as the connected peripheral section has only two sub-sections. sections which include with the tongue longitudinal axis an angle of between about 30 ° and about 60 °, preferably about 45 °, and as long as the entire circumference of the hook plate comprises at least a portion of greater radial extent and at least a portion of smaller radial extent beyond the spacer ,
  • the radial extension of the hook plate projecting beyond the spacer element in the at least one section of greatest radial extent between about 4 mm and about 7 mm, preferably about 5.5 mm, is.
  • the hook plate is curved at least partially curved away from the tongue at its peripheral edge and / or that the abutment plate has a curvature adapted to the shape of the tongue.
  • the length of the spacer may be between about 2.5 mm and about 3.5 mm, preferably about 3.0 mm. These dimensions are based on the fact that the laces usually used in the untensioned state have a diameter of about 4 mm and in the tensioned state, a diameter of about 3 mm. It should be noted that the denominations of the "lace diameters" refer to effective diameters, that is, the diameter of a disk having the same cross-sectional area as the lace.
  • the tongue holding unit may be attached to the tongue by means of a single fastener, for example by means of a single rivet.
  • the spacer may be tubular but advantageously the only fastener penetrates the lumen of the tube.
  • this fastening element simultaneously serves for fastening the tongue holding unit to the tongue and for deflecting the two retaining elements, in particular shoelace loops.
  • the invention relates to the previously described novel lacing of a shoe, for example, a combintechftigen shoe, such as hiking boots, hiking boots or the like, in which from each of the two opposite edges of the slot emanates a formed by a portion of the shoe lace strap, and is returned to the same edge after deflection by the tongue holding unit under positive engagement with the tongue holding unit.
  • the strap formed by the laces can emanate from a first, arranged at the respective edge of the slot hook and loop element and be redirected after deflection by the tongue holding unit to a second, arranged at the respective edge of the slot hook and loop element, which adjacent to the first hook and loop element.
  • a pair of hook and loop elements arranged higher or lower on the shaft can be used as first and second hook and loop elements in the context of the novel lacing.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of a laced according to the invention Schnurungsart shoe according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a shoe laced according to the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of the tongue holding unit according to the invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a section along the line IV-IV in Fig. 3rd
  • a shoe according to the invention is designated generally by 10.
  • the shoe 10 includes a high shaft 12, i. a shaft that extends beyond the ankles of the wearer. From an upper edge 12a of the shaft, a slot 14 extends, which extends in the direction of the toe 12b.
  • the slot 14 is covered on the inside of the shaft 12 by a tongue 16, which is usually connected in the region of the lower slot end 14a with the shaft 12, for example sewn thereto.
  • a lace 18 which is guided in the forefoot instep area 12c of the shaft 12 following a crossed course through eyelet members 20 which are secured along the edges 14b and 14c of the slot 14 on the shaft 12.
  • the slot edges 14b and 14c adjacent hook elements 22 are provided in the region of the lower leg region 12d of the shank 12.
  • a tongue holding unit 24 is mounted on the tongue 16 substantially at the level of the hook elements 22.
  • the tongue holding unit 24 comprises a contact plate 26, with which it rests on the surface of the tongue 16.
  • a contact plate 26 On the contact plate 26 integrally closes a tubular formed spacer 28, at its side facing away from the contact plate 26 end turn a hook plate 30 is formed.
  • a through-hole 24 a is formed, which serves for passing through a fastening element 36, by means of which the tongue holding unit 24 can be fastened to the tongue 16.
  • the fastening element 28 may be formed, for example, by a fastening rivet.
  • the hook plate 30 projects beyond the spacer 28 on its entire circumference, forming hook elements in both the portions 30a and 30b facing the two edges 14b, 14c of the slot 14 and the portion 30c facing the shoe tip 12b serve the secure hold of the lace 18 on the tongue holding unit 24.
  • a lace loop 18a1 extends from a first hook element 22 in the region of the slot edge 14c, the tongue holding unit 24 is deflected by the spacer element 28 and returns to another hook element 22 in the region of the same slot edge 14c.
  • a lace loop 18b1 extends from a first hooking element 22 in the region of the slit edge 14b, is deflected by the spacer element 28 of the tongue holding unit 24 and returns to another hooking element 22 in the region of the same slotted edge 14b.
  • the spacer element 28 thus forms an abutment element for the loops 18a1 and 18b1.
  • the tongue holding unit 24 is held by the two loops 18a1 and 18b1 at the position given to it when the lace 18 is laceed in the transverse direction Q, irrespective of the position of the tongue holding unit 24 in the height direction predetermined by the instep height of the wearer's foot 12 H. doing so For example, the adjustment to the height position of the tongue holding unit 24 is also easily accomplished by the loops 18a1 and 18b1.
  • the two loops 18a1 and 18b1 intersect below the hook plate 30.
  • the length of the spacer 28 is therefore dimensioned so that both loops 18a1 and 18b1 safely under the hook plate 30 place.
  • a mark 32 is mounted, in the embodiment shown in Figure 3 in the form of intersecting grooves 34, the graph of the intersecting loops 18a1 and 18b1 graphically to the wearer of the shoe 10 on the to draw attention to new lacing.
  • These projections 3Od are in peripheral portions of the hook plate 30, which with the tongue longitudinal axis A an angle ⁇ of between about 30 ° and about 60 °, preferably about 45 °, include.
  • the loops 18a1 and 18b1 are securely held under the hook plate 30.
  • insertion slopes 30d1 on the underside of the projections 30d facilitate insertion of the loops 18a1 and 18b1 under the hook plate 30.
  • the tongue holding unit 24 is used in the same manner as known from conventional high-heel tongue-holding shoes. Ie in this case would the two sections 18a, 18b of the lace 18 coming from the two opposite edges 14b and 14c cross below the spacer 28 and then proceed to the other of the slot edges 14c and 14b, respectively. In this case, the lower two projections 3Od ensure the secure retention of the lace 18 to the tongue holding unit 24.
  • the value of the radial extent E of the hook plate 30 projecting beyond the spacer element 28 is between approximately 4 mm and approximately 7 mm in the at least one portion 30d of the greatest radial extent , preferably about 5.5 mm.
  • the length L of the spacer 28 between the top of the abutment plate 26 and the underside of the hook plate 30 may be between about 2.5 mm and about 3.5 mm, preferably about 3.0 mm.

Abstract

Une chaussure (10) comprend une tige (12) pourvue d'une fente (14), une languette (16), s'étendant sensiblement le long de la fente (14), ainsi qu'un système de maintien de languette (24) associé à la languette (16) et au moyen duquel un décentrage latéral de la languette (16) est rendu difficile lorsque la chaussure (10) est fermée. Selon l'invention, un élément de maintien (18a1, 18b1) est associé à chacun des deux bords (14b, 14c) de la fente (14), lequel élément de maintien peut être mis en prise avec le système de maintien de languette (24) par complémentarité de formes et exerce un effort de traction sur le système de maintien de languette (24) au moins si ce système se déplace d'une position de consigne dans une direction s'éloignant du bord associé (14b, 14c) lorsque la chaussure (10) est fermée.
EP09765895.9A 2008-06-18 2009-06-18 Chaussure, par exemple chaussure à tige haute Active EP2303046B1 (fr)

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