Adjustable height shoe heel system

• US 20120085000A1
• Filed: 10/07/2010
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rosario Alaimo
• Original Assignee: Rosario Alaimo
• Inventors: Alaimo, Rosario
• Application Number:
  US12/924,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20120085000A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 36/100
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 21/433 rotatably mounted
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/027 with a part of the upper particularly flexible, e.g. permitting articulation or torsion
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/246 characterised by the sole

Abstract

An adjustable height shoe heel system having a low heel member and a high heel member. The high heel portion has a Y shape. The low heel portion has a W shape. The top legs of the Y shape can of nest into the recesses of the W shape when in the low heel mode. The legs of the Y shape rotatably pinned to the central portion of the W shape so that the high heel can pivot down when in the high heel mode. A heel retaining spring member is fixed at its lowest point to a post protruding from the high heel member and at its highest points are removably retained by apertures located in the side walls of the low heel member. A high heel cover member surrounds the high heel member when in high heel mode.

Claims

1. adjustable height shoe heel system comprising:

a sole portion;

a front toe covering portion;

a side wall portion;

a side wall elastic portion;

a rear portion;

a low heel member;

a high heel member;

a heel pivot shaft member;

a heel retaining torsion spring member;

a high heel cover member;

said front toe covering portion fixedly attached to said sole portion in a standard way;

said side wall portion including a plurality of vertically oriented slits;

said side wall elastic portion fixedly attached to the inside walls of said side wall portion;

said high heel portion having a Y shape;

said low heel portion having a W shape;

said low heel portion fixedly attached to the underside of said sole portion;

the top legs of said Y shape capable of nesting into the recesses of said W shape when in the low heel mode;

said top legs of said Y shape rotatably pinned to the central portion of said W shape so that said high heel can pivot down when in the high heel mode;

said heel retaining torsion spring member fixed at its lowest point to a post protruding from said high heel member;

the upper portions of said heel retaining torsion spring member bent outward from each other and removably retained within apertures located in the side walls of said low heel member; and

said high heel cover member surrounding said high heel member and removably retained to said low heel member by standard means.

2. An adjustable height shoe heel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said high heel cover is removably retained by a magnet imbedded in said low heel member and a steel plate imbedded in said heel cover.

3. An adjustable height shoe heel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said heel retaining torsion spring includes a tab on each leg of said spring to enable the squeezing of said spring during the adjustment process from high heel to low heel.

4. An alternate embodiment of said adjustable height shoe heel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said side walls of said shoe are made of elastic material and do not require said slits or said additional elastic material.

5. An alternate embodiment of said adjustable height shoe heel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the side walls of said shoe include a slidable panel that is exposed when said shoe is in the low heel positron and hidden when in the high heel position.