Classifications

• • 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
  • A43B5/0427—Ski or like boots characterised by type or construction details
  • A43B5/0466—Adjustment of the side inclination of the boot leg; Canting
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A43—FOOTWEAR
  • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
  • A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
  • A43B5/14—Shoes for cyclists
  • A43B5/145—Boots for motorcyclists

Definitions

• the present invention concerns a boot structure for sport shoes, in particular for motorbiker shoes.
• the present invention aims at attaining relevant improvements in connection to the characteristics of resistance to stress and of remarkable ease of use of the motorbiker shoes.
• Another aim of the present invention is to provide a boot of remarkable practicalness of use and high protection to the motorbiker's foot, with the advantageous presence of flexible jointing structural members. Accordingly, industries strive to attain for their own products ever-improved performances with an acceptable reliability. The pursuit of improved performances should find the way to an incisive improvement of all the components and aspects of the product.
• a boot structure in particular for a motorbiker's shoe, in which the lower shell and the upper shell are coupled and joined with a hinged joint for rotary angular oscillations about axes of rotation which are substantially orthogonal therebetween.
• the present invention provides a boot structure for sport shoes, in particular useful for motorbiker shoes, comprising a lower shell to which at least one upper shell and one or more covering edge are coupled, characterised in that the lower shell and the upper shell are joined by means of hinged jointing means apt to allow rotary angular oscillations about axes of rotation substantially orthogonal therebetween.
• the upper shell has bottom fork-shaped rigid expansions for embracing the inner rigid reinforcement of the underlying lower shell by means of hinged jointing members for multiaxial rotations.
• the hinged jointing members for rotations about at least two axes substantially orthogonal therebetween are friction-adjustable by sliding friction in rotary motion, making the latter more or less easy between the underlying rigid lower shell and the overhanging oscillating upper shell.
• An advantage provided by the present invention is the high reliability over time of the structural components of the boot, determining in the use thereof the quality of the product itself. It is known that the reliability and the quality of a product are important in determining a wimiing competition on the market.
• Another advantage provided by the present invention is that of providing a particularly versatile and functional type of shoe for motorbikers for different types of employ, in particular 'racing', touring, leisure, etc..
• a further advantage provided by the present invention is that of concomitantly having optimum features of wearability for a user and of allowing the latter to optimally transmit the reciprocal stresses from the foot to the boot structure and vice versa. Another advantage is that of implementing a boot ensuring an optimal foot wearability, above all at the areas subjected to greater stresses during sports practice.
• FIG 1 is a view schematically showing in a partially isometric perspective the boot structure as a whole, in a closed worn-on position
• figure 2 is a view schematically showing in a partially isometric perspective the boot structure, and said view also shows the hinged joint between the underlying lower shell and the overhanging upper shell
• figure 3 is a view schematically showing in a partially isometric perspective the inner structural members of the boot
• figure 4 is a view schematically showing in a partially isometric perspective the boot structure as a whole in a frontal position.
• a boot structure 10 worn on by a motorbiker in its closed configuration of use is indicated; 19 is a rear tongue in a remarkably flexible composite textile material, and said tongue 19 is removably coupled with zippers to a front pad 19 which is integrally associated with seams to the edge 20.
• the hereto defined members 19 and 20 are preferably made in a remarkably flexible composite textile material in all identical to the rear tongue 19. Both said members 19, tongue and pad, cover the underlying upper shell; 6 is the upper shell having a bottom expansion inner structure 12 in a rigid polymeric material, of a shape apt to allow the hinged jointing to the structure of the lower shell underlying the boot 10.
• the upper shell 6 is enveloped, integrally to the rigid inner structure thereof, by a soft material sufficiently shimmed to cushion stresses to the foot of the sportsman, in particular to the motorbiker; 7 is the rear edge with a structure in a sufficiently rigid polymeric material, and said inside structure is advantageously lined in a soft shimmed material to cushion dynamic stresses to the motorcyclist's foot.
• the edge 7, in composite material, connected to the upper shell 6 with strip and removable jointing closing pads 8 by means of a preferably 'velcro' fastening; 16 is a sufficiently extended slot for the sliding of the pin of the slit plate jointing member 14, which forms the covering washer guiding the rotary angular oscillations about substantially orthogonal axes of rotation.
• the forward-backward rotary oscillation of the foot is illustrated with a circular sign provided with arrowheads in figure 3
• the sideways rotary oscillation is illustrated with a circular sign provided with arrowheads in figure 4
• 15 is the slot screw member 18, adjusting the sliding friction between the rigid expansion 12 of the upper shell 6 and the rigid structure 9 of the lower shell of the boot 10.

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• 2000
  • 2000-09-12 IT IT2000RM000497A patent/IT1316210B1/it active
• 2001
  • 2001-09-07 WO PCT/IT2001/000464 patent/WO2002021954A1/en active Application Filing
  • 2001-09-07 AU AU2001292223A patent/AU2001292223A1/en not_active Abandoned

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