FOOT CUSHIONING SUPPORT MEMBER

• US 3,589,037 A
• Filed: 05/27/1969
• Issued: 06/29/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John P. Gallagher
• Original Assignee: John P. Gallagher
• Inventors: Gallagher, John P.
• Application Number:
  US04/828,155
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• US Class Current: 36/44
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 17/03 filled with a gas, e.g. air

Abstract

A foot supporting and cushioning member for footwear in the nature of a removable, preferably disposable, liner constructed from a pair of laminated gas impervious sheets of thin, lightweight, elastic material, and having a multiplicity of separate gas filled pockets distributed over the support surface of the member.

Claims

1. In a shoe, a foot supporting and cushioning footwear liner comprising a composite laminated pair of gas impervious sheets of thin, lightweight elastic material, including a base sheet and an upper sheet, said upper sheet constituting a foot support surface, the composite laminated sheets incorporaTing a multiplicity of upwardly protruding exposed gas filled pockets defined in the upper foot support sheet in spaced distribution thereover and providing a plurality of separate foot support elements permitting air circulation thereabout and about the foot of a user.

2. In a shoe, a foot supporting and cushioning member as claimed in claim 1, said base sheet being planar and said upper sheet having partial pockets defined therein such that as laminated, closed gas filled pockets are formed between the sheets and extending upwardly from said upper sheet.

3. In a shoe, a foot supporting and cushioning member as claimed in claim 2, said pockets being hemispherical with flat bases provided by said planar sheet and said pockets extending upwardly from said flat bases for foot user contact.

4. In a shoe, a foot supporting and cushioning member as claimed in claim 3, said sheets being joined in planar areas surrounding and intermediate said pockets.

5. In a shoe, a foot supporting and cushioning member as claimed in claim 4, said sheet material consisting of a heat sealable plastic and said sheets being laminated by heat sealing.