FIT ADJUSTABLE FOOTWEAR

• US 20100139122A1
• Filed: 02/20/2006
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bruno Zanatta
• Original Assignee: Bruno Zanatta
• Inventors: Zanatta, Bruno
• Application Number:
  US11/909,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20100139122A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 36/97
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/047 the gusset being elastic
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/26 adjustable as to length or size

Abstract

A fit adjustable footwear, includes an insole, having a top layer and a bottom layer, mutually facing and kept spaced thereamong in correspondence of at least one length of the external peripheral edge thereof to slidably house a plurality of support elements arranged in a sequence and interconnected by a pulling element, the tensioning of which allows to radially let out, of a desired length, the support elements from the top and bottom layers.

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28. A device for adjusting the fit of a footwear, comprising:

an insole, reproducing at least partially the shape of the sole of the foot;

an elongate pulling element, slidably associated to said insole and associable to the vamp of the footwear, said pulling element extending in correspondence of at least one peripheral section of said insole reproducing the shape of the sole of the foot;

adjustment means for adjusting the degree of tensioning of said pulling element, apt to vary the degree of tensioning of the latter so as to adjust the lateral position thereof with respect to said insole; and

a seat, apt to slidably house said pulling element with said vamp.

29. The device according to claim 28, wherein said insole comprises a top layer, a bottom layer and a spacer interposed between said top and bottom layers.

30. The device according to claim 29, wherein said pulling element is slidably coupled to said spacer.

31. The device according to claim 29, wherein said spacer centrally has, in a plan, a width shorter than said top and bottom layers, so as to define said seat.

32. The device according to claim 28, wherein said pulling element is constrained to a plurality of support elements.

33. The device according to claim 32, wherein said support elements have a seat for receiving said pulling element.

34. The device according to claim 33, wherein said seat of said elements is basically in the farm of a longitudinal groove.

35. The device according to claim 32, wherein said support elements are of annular or tubular configuration, having a through seat apt to receive said pulling element.

36. The device according to claim 28, wherein said adjustment means comprises at least one threaded element operable by a wearer from the outside of the footwear.

37. A footwear comprising a device for adjusting the fit, said device comprising:

an insole, reproducing at least partially the shape of the sole of the foot;

an elongate pulling element, slidably associated to said insole and associable to the vamp of the footwear, said pulling element extending in correspondence of at least one peripheral section of said insole reproducing the shape of the sole of the foot;

adjustment means for adjusting the degree of tensioning of said pulling element, apt to vary the degree of tensioning of the latter so as to adjust the lateral position thereof with respect to said insole; and

a seat, apt to slidably house said pulling element with said vamp.

38. The footwear according to claim 37, comprising a vamp in turn having a first and a second portion mutually movable with respect to each other.

39. The footwear according claim 38, comprising a sliding heel, one of said portions of vamp being movable integrally to said sliding heel.

40. The footwear according to claim 38, wherein one of said portions of vamp is movable integrally to said pulling element.

41. The footwear according to claim 38, wherein one of said portions of vamp is fixed to said insole and partially wound on said pulling element.

42. The footwear according to claim 38, wherein said first and second portion of vamp are slidable with respect to each other.

43. The footwear according to claim 42, wherein one of said first and second portion of vamp defines a housing inside which it is slidably received at least part of the other one of said portions.