SKATE BOOT

• US 20090243238A1
• Filed: 10/10/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bauer Hockey Incorporated (Old PSG Wind-down Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Dasc, LLC
• Inventors: CRUIKSHANK, David, VAN HORNE, Scott
• Application Number:
  US12/249,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20090243238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/11.120
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/35 with electric heating arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/42 where power is generated by conversion of mechanical movement to electricity, e.g. by piezoelectric means
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/16 Skating boots
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/1691 characterised by the higher part of the upper, e.g. surrounding the ankle, by the quarter or cuff
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 11/002 Fastenings using stretchable material attached to cuts in the uppers

Abstract

A skate boot includes a foot portion configured to receive and secure a foot of a wearer. The skate boot includes a first tendon guard positioned proximal an Achilles tendon of a wearer of the skate boot, the first tendon guard being connected to the foot portion at a first articulation point and adjacent the foot portion along a medial abutment line and a lateral abutment line. The skate boot may optionally include a second tendon guard connected to the foot portion at a second articulation point and to the first tendon guard, the second tendon guard covering the first articulation point. In at least one embodiment, an elastomeric band is connected to the foot portion and to the first tendon guard and configured to bias the first tendon guard to a closed position. In at least one embodiment, an electrical generator is provided to heat an ice skate interconnected to the boot.

Claims

1. A skate boot, comprising:

a foot portion configured to receive and secure a foot of a wearer;

an articulating tendon guard positioned proximal an Achilles tendon of the wearer of the skate boot, the articulating tendon guard being connected to the foot portion at an articulation point and adjacent the foot portion along a medial abutment line and a lateral abutment line; and

an elastomeric member connected to the articulating tendon guard and connectable to a lower leg of the wearer; and

an elastomeric band connected to the foot portion and to the articulating tendon guard and configured to bias the articulating tendon guard to a closed position where the articulating tendon guard abuts the foot portion long the medial abutment line and the lateral abutment line.

2. A skate boot, comprising:

a foot portion configured to receive and secure a foot of a wearer;

a first tendon guard positioned proximal an Achilles tendon of a wearer of the skate boot, the first tendon guard being connected to the foot portion at a first articulation point and adjacent the foot portion along a medial abutment line and a lateral abutment line;

a second tendon guard connected to the foot portion at a second articulation point and to the first tendon guard, the second tendon guard covering the first articulation point; and

an elastomeric band connected to the foot portion and to the first tendon guard and configured to bias the first tendon guard to a closed position where the first tendon guard abuts the foot portion long the medial abutment line and the lateral abutment line.

3. An ice skate, comprising:

a foot portion configured to receive and secure a foot of a wearer;

a first tendon guard positioned proximal an Achilles tendon of the wearer of a skate boot, the first tendon guard being connected to the foot portion at a first articulation point and adjacent the foot portion along a medial abutment line and a lateral abutment line;

a second tendon guard connected to the foot portion at a second articulation point and adjacent to the first tendon guard, the second tendon guard covering the first articulation point; and

an elastomeric band connected to the foot portion and to the first tendon guard and configured to bias the first tendon guard to a closed position where the first tendon guard abuts the foot portion long the medial abutment line and the lateral abutment line

an electrical generator, comprising;

a first electrical generation component connected to the first tendon guard;

a second electrical generation component connected to the second tendon guard, wherein movement of a leg of the wearer forwards and backwards moves the first electrical generation component with respect to the second electrical generation component, thereby generating an electrical current;

the ice skate connected to the skate boot; and

a plurality of resistors connected to the ice skate and configured to receive the electrical current from the electrical generator to thereby generate heat and heat the ice skate.