SHOE HAVING DECORATIVE LIGHTING

• US 3,564,232 A
• Filed: 10/09/1968
• Issued: 02/16/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank P. Kanapaux, Theresa J. Ellerbe
• Original Assignee: Frank P. Kanapaux, Theresa J. Ellerbe
• Inventors: Ellerbe, Theresa J., Kanapaux, Frank P.
• Application Number:
  US04/766,143
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• US Class Current: 362/103
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0036 with fluorescent or phosphorescent parts
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0072 made at least partially of transparent or translucent materials
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/36 with light sources
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/802 Position or condition responsive switch

Abstract

An illuminated shoe having a detachable heel containing a concealed battery. A fastener for the heel on the body of the shoe serves to limit the movement of an on and off switch arm. The concealed battery powers the illuminating member on the shoe body.

Claims

1. An illuminated shoe comprising a shoe body portion, a heel unit separable from the body portion and having a battery receiving cavity, cooperating slide plates on the heel unit and body portion enabling the heel unit to be quickly detached from the body portion and applied thereto, a fastener element lockably engaging the slide plates so that they will not shift while in engagement, and a pivoted switch arm on the heel unit having a slot receiving the fastener element and forming a limit stop therewith for said arm, said arm in one limiting position contacting one terminal of a battery adapted to be held in said cavity and in the other limiting position being out of electrical engagement with the battery terminal, and illuminating circuit means on the shoe connected in series with the battery and pivoted switch arm.

2. The structure of claim 1, wherein the illuminating circuit means comprises a pair of wires connected with the terminals of the battery, and a tubular seam extending around the foot receiving opening of the shoe receiving said wires and said wires emerging from said seam at a selected point and a light bulb socket element connected with said wires at their point of emergence.

3. The structure of claim 2, and separable means for anchoring the socket element to the body portion of the shoe.

4. The structure of claim 3, and a decorative element engageable over the socket element and the light bulb adapted to be contained therein.

5. The structure of claim 1, wherein said cooperating slide plates comprise a flat slide plate on the top of the heel unit and a fixed plate on the bottom of the body portion having knuckles at opposite sides thereof to receive edge portions of the flat slide plate, said plates being apertured to receive said fastener element and said fastener element being generally at right angles to said plates.

6. The structure of claim 5, wherein the heel unit is provided in its top with an opening for the fastener element and includes a locking portion and said fastener element is a quick release fastener including a cross pin engageable within the locking portion to prevent accidental separation of the heel unit and shoe body portion.

7. An illuminated shoe comprising a shoe body portion, an illuminating unit on said body portion including wiring, a heel unit detachably secured to the body portion and having a concealed cavity for a storage battery, said wiring adapted for connection with the terminals of a storage battery within said cavity, an on and off switch arm pivoted to the heel unit and having a handle extension projecting forwardly of the heel unit and lying in a generally horizontal plane close to and below the instep portion of the shoe, said arm adapted in one position thereof to engage a terminal of the battery and complete in illuminating circuit and in another position to open said circuit, and a quick release fastener for the heel unit on said body portion engaging said switch arm and forming a limit stop therefor in at least one direction of movement of the arm.