WO2016156983A2

WO2016156983A2 - Women and men's clear shoe and heel protector

Info

Publication number: WO2016156983A2
Application number: PCT/IB2016/000511
Authority: WO
Inventors: Marian SHAGHOURY
Original assignee: Shaghoury Marian
Priority date: 2015-04-02
Filing date: 2016-04-04
Publication date: 2016-10-06
Also published as: WO2016156983A3; CA2981572A1

Abstract

A device embodied in 6 different shapes to adhere invisibly and protect multiple surfaces of sandals, flats, stilettos, and platform wedge shoes including men's sandals, day shoes and sports shoes in one unique size.

Description

Applicant: Shoetsy, Inc.

Inventor: Marian Shaghoury

Name of Invention: Women and Men's clear shoe and heel protector

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:

1. Field of invention

The present invention is a devise of 6 pieces of clear plastic with a shoe friendly adhesive that collectively and singularly protect different parts of all women's and men's shoes on multiple surfaces of the shoe but not limited to the external parts of the shoes and can be placed inside or under the shoe for maximal coverage. These surfaces include but not limited to the following types of shoes: sandals, flats, stiletto heels, platform heels, wedges and men's sandals, and closed shoes. These pieces of clear plastic are not limited to protect and shall be used under various embellishments such as crystals, studs, and various designs. The shapes shall alter in opacity and colors forms that align with seasonal trends and change the look of the shoe to cover over a scuffed heel, stiletto, and platform and right above the heel.

2. Description of Related Art

Women's shoes are changing with the trends, different materials and textures are making it difficult for cobblers to keep up with renewing and fixing them. Any alternative would be to throw them away and buy new ones. One can easily assume by looking at a worn out shoe the location where signs of wear are evident. Signs of the most worn out parts are as follows: front of the shoe, the sides at the front, the full heel, and above the heel. With that knowledge, a protection with the intention of preventing is the only solution to keep a woman and man's shoe look new longer. The most frequent way a woman or man can wear out a shoe while wearing them is while driving, sitting, and walking. More accurately, driving can easily stain the back of the shoe on any type of shoe, walking on uneven roads is the most frequent way of tearing a woman's heel. Toe marks are left on nearly all women's and men's sandals and interior of a shoe. Tearing the front of any woman's shoe happens while going up stairs or kneeling down. Any of these situations can cause damage from the first wear. This causes the feeling of losing an investment and embarrassment to continue to wear the same shoe in public when signs of wear and tear start to become evident. The drive to the cobbler as being ineffective has caused for the need to create a new system to protect and avoid damages to all women and men's shoes. The modern women and men's shoe trendsno longer works with just leather and no tools exist to cater to those fashionable shoes. The obvious question becomes how can a woman or man walk confidently without an obvious protection around the shoe and avoiding the most amount of scuffing while they wear the shoe. Some notoriety has come from one design made as a silicone cap with a larger disk at the bottom, but the protection has failed to address two key factors which is that scuffing is more than in just one area of shoe and that This product requires that you measure your heel before purchasing and can cause friction when purchasing with sizing as the device can never be a perfect fit and if tighter will rub aggressively on the sides of the heels. Visibility is another reason why that device takes away from the look of the shoe. More recently, a US patent has appeared to replace the silicone invention with a clear plastic but has failed to allow for it's protection on certain types of shoes and also bears similarity in it's effectiveness to protect other parts of the shoe that can cause harm while being worn. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is claiming that 6 unique devices are to be used independently or in combination that wraps around major weak points in the shoe with the intent on avoiding all scuffing by carefully covering target points that women and men are prone to damaging based on human behaviour while in movement. Key elements that the present invention holds is not having sizing requirements, the material bends to all curves of the required shoe, pieces are used to overlap with each other or extend to go from a size 5 to a size 11. These 6 pieces are divided into 3 categories of shoes namely: Sandals, Stilettos, and Platform heels. The sandal protectors are to be used on all flat and heeled sandals as well as covering and protecting the interior of any shoe. This protector shall avoid visible toe marks, dirt build up around the toe area and avoid the material under the foot from ripping and cracking caused from the motion of walking and bending the material under the foot. The Stiletto protector shall cover all flat and heeled stilettos with the similarity of having a pointy toe. This will avoid bumping at the front of shoe, hitting the sides of the front of shoe with each other or an accidental surface, a common misfortune, and the full back will be protected while driving and walking on any surface that causes the heel to dig into dirt, or tear from a concrete floor. The platform protector shall cover all flat and heeled platforms including a wedged heel and avoid similar issues described with the stiletto protector. These 6 pieces can be combined when considering other shoe types such as a Sandal heels and platform heels that would require a sandal protector and a heel protector and will result in a 99% coverage of the entire shoe covering the inside and the outside at the same time.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a frontal view of device 1 and device 2 used for men and women's sandals

FIG. 2 is frontal view of device 3 and 4 applied to the full heel and above the heel

FIG. 3. Is frontal view of device 5 and 6 applied to the front portion of platform and stiletto

FIG. 4. is perspective of device 3 ,4, and 5 in application on a platform heel

FIG. 5. is perspective of device 3,4, and 6 in application on a stiletto heel

FIG. 6 is perspective of device 1 and 2 in application on a sandal protector

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The drawings and disclosures described are a representation and not limiting to the claims suggested. Added or Altered features may occur from shown drawings serving the same or similar purpose and may replace certain features disclosed in the description as new discovery, unless expressly stated otherwise. This patent reserves the right to variances of 15% to replace future discovery and add new product features. Devices in drawings are in difference between the men and women's shoe protection and reserve the right to edit devices to better fit the men's line at a later date. The term "women's shoes" refers to every particular style of women's shoes that is accessible for use by women. The term "shoes" refers to all women's shoe styles. The term " mens" shoes refers to specific styles known as Jordans, dress shoes, sneakers, and sandals. The reference to "weak points in the shoe" refers to more than one area surrounding any shoe aforementioned that can cause the particular shoe to appear damaged by any eye. The reference to "covered" refers to the plastic material with an adhesive. The term to cover " sandals", "Stilettos", and "Platforms" refers to all styles within that category that are to be considered and not limited to one style and can be used to describe other related shoe descriptions such as flats, peeptoe, pumps, closed toe, strappy shoes, and all heel sizes. The term "portion" refers to the area of shoe that the device covers anywhere from 50% to 99% of the shoe. The term "replace" the look of the shoe refers to the present invention having a different opacity that changes the color of the shoe but not limiting to color and also include embellishments on top of embodiement with varying objects but not limiting to crystals, stones, and studs.. The term "one size fits all" refers to the technique used to adjust the embodiment to the shoe by overlapping or extending the pieces together, or to adjust with a pair of scissors. The term "women" is not limited to an age range and can be addressed for all ages with design variances to accommodate smaller sizing. The term " plastic " refers to a film with no specific thickness without disclosing and not limiting to said thickness and type of plastic. The term "shoe-friendly adhesive" refers to an adhesive with a specific micron without disclosing and not limiting to said micron that allows the present invention to be applied on all shoe materials and remove easily without damage to the shoe. The present invention is disclosing the reference to " cuts" as grooves into the plastic to allow it to bend to the required surface in order to adhere and protect properly, such cuts can be altered or be non existent if a discovery to a new material offers the flexibility to bend without grooves.

Regarding device 1 and 2 in Fig. 1 , the embodiment represents 2 pieces that overlap or extend to create a full protection covering 99% of sandals. In Fig. 6b, (25) device 1 goes around the strap of the shoe located between the first 2 toes. This piece protects against toe marks, the dirt build up typically found in that area. The device 2 in Fig. 6c (26) containing an attached lip covers the second half of the surface and intended to protect the label on the shoe and from any excess dirt. The lip on the end of the second piece in Fig. 1 (4-27) is meant to fold and wrap around the back of the sandal to act as a heel protector if the sandal has an open back. If the sandal has a closed back, the lip simply folds up. See application in Fig. 6c.

The device 3 and 4 represents the heel and above the heel protection in Fig. 2 (5-10) where in (5) has 3 grooves to fit at the larger circumference at the highest point of the heel (6), the second groove (7) helps mold the plastic to wrap to the back of the heel, and finally the bottom groove (8) helps to flex and the sharpest curve located at the mid- heel. In Fig. 4b (15-16) and Fig. 5b (15-16), device 3 and 4 can be used on any shoe with a heel and/or above the heel surface. In Figure 4a, (19) is applied covering the entire heel portion until the seam, and (18) is applied above the heel seam and covers against driving stains.

The device 5 and 6 in Fig. 3 are applications applied to the front of a platform shoe (1 1 - 20) and a stiletto shoe (12-22). For the front of the platform heel, see Fig. 4c, (17), which covers the platform area entirely to not allow it to get contact with floor debris or touch any surface from the side. Device 6 is an application to adhere to the front of a stiletto flat or heel (21-22). 2 cuts located to the front and back (14) are meant to avoid tension while applying at a narrowing corner. There is an opening at the front portion to allow the ends to touch just enough to have a clean seal during the application (13).

Those skilled in the art may make modifications with different embodiments that still drive the same results. As such, any modification that results in the protection of any shoe style that covers independently or combined 1 or more portions of the shoe that suggested a front or side application and a complete heel and upper heel application for women and men's shoes, falls under the scope of the invention described in the claims.

Claims

UTILITY PATENT : SHOETSY Applicant: Shoetsy, Inc. Inventor: Marian Shaghoury Name of Invention: Women and Men's clear shoe and heel protector What is claimed is:

1. A device with 6 unique shapes to protect 3 main areas of a woman and men's shoes involving sandals, flats, stilettos, platform heels, wedges as well as men's sandals, sports shoes, and dress shoes created with a plastic adhesive that is embodied as transparent with options of different embellishments.

2. A device from claim 1 made with a plastic adhesive of a mixture between polymeric and polyvinyl to allow for tensionless flexibility.

3. A device from claim 1 with alternating surfaces to have different colors, patterns, and decorative embellishments relating to season trends.

4. A device according to claim 1 to protect the front portion of a woman's stiletto heel that includes the upper surface the front and the sides of any said stiletto.

5. The device according to claim 3 has cuts to be able to adhere to the front portion of a stiletto.

6. A device according to claim 1 to protect the front portion of a woman's platform heel that includes the front and sides and a similar application altered for a man's front portion of the shoe.

7. A device according to claim 1 to protect the full surface of a sandal from the foot and can simultaneously be used inside of any shoe to protect against the foot touching the surface, and can adhere below the shoe from touching the surface of any ground.

8. A device according to claim 1 to protect the full portion of a woman's heel measured at 7 inches or less from the seam located at the top of the heel to the seam connecting to the rubber piece.

9. A device according to claim 1 to protect the portion located above the heel located above the seam that joins the heel.

10. The devise according to claim 1 refers to all women and men of all ages.

1 1 . the device according to claim 1 and 2 is intended as clear, colored and with embellished designs for the purpose of either protection and/or act as a replacement.

12. The device according to claim 7 is a one size fits all application that can be overlapped or extended to fill and protect the entire surface of a sandal.

13. The device according to claim 1 has 1 piece found in claim 8 that only requires a scissor to fit to size.

14. The device according to claim 1 allows for all pieces to be interchangeable between different shoe types.

15. The device according to claim 1 may be subject of revision and enhancement to adjust to new generation of women's shoe styles with new elements, new shapes.

16. The device according to claim 1 can have embellishments that add 3D designs on said device.

17. The device according to claim 1 and 14 will adjust the designs according larger or smaller shoe sizes.

18. The devise according to claim 1 has a variance of 25% for the men's line

19. The device according to claim 8 will adjust to fit a men's upper heel application located behind the shoe with a variance of 25%.

20. The device according to claim 5 will have a variance to adjust to fit the front portion of a man's shoe.

21 . The device according to claim 1 will have a variance to fit to a man's sports shoes, notably a pair of Jordans.