FOOT CONFORMING INSOLE FOR A SHOE

• US 3,825,017 A
• Filed: 01/31/1973
• Issued: 07/23/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph E. Scrima
• Original Assignee: Joseph E. Scrima
• Inventors: Scrima, Joseph E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaudet, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yasko, J.
• Application Number:
  US05/328,321
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 128/622,621,619,596,595,581,586 36/44,30
• US Class Current: 36/181
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/28 Adapting the inner sole or the side of the upper of the shoe to the sole of the foot

Abstract

A foot conforming shoe insole which includes upper and lower layers of resilient foam material and an intermediate layer of solid material bonded between the upper and lower layers. Upturned tabs are formed by the layers on opposite sides of the insole for cradling the foot at the medial and lateral sides of the foot where the arch thereof is located.

Claims

1. An insole for a shoe, said insole comprising a first layer of resilient foam material, a layer of solid shape-retaining material applied over portions of said first layer, a second layer of resilient foam material applied over said solid layer and coextensively overlying said first layer, said first and second and solid layers being bonded together at all areas of mutual contact with the marginal areas of said first and second layers extending beyond all peripheral edges of said solid layer, said second layer having at least twice the thickness of said first layer, said first and second layers adapted to extend from the furthermost posterior aspect of the heel to the tip of the toes, a pair of upturned tab means formed by said first and second and solid layers at opposite side edges of said insole for cradling the heel, one tab means adapted to be on the medial side of the foot at the arch thereof, the other tab means adapted to be on the lateral side of the foot just rearwardly of the base of the tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal, said solid layer adapted to extend from the furthermost posterior aspect of the heel to adjacently rearwardly of the ball of the foot, said first and solid layers having a rounded foot cradling transverse cross sectional configuration, the upper face of said second layer having a resilient shape retaining configuration conforming to the plantar of the foot and including cradling depressions for the toes and heel.

2. The insole of claim 1 wherein said solid layer is formed of a high density plastic and said first and second layers are formed of a cellular foamed plastic.

3. The insole of claim 2 wherein said solid layer is one-sixteenth inch thick and said first layer is one-eighth inch thick and said second layer is one-fourth inch thick.

4. The insole of claim 2 wherein said second layer has a plurality of perforations formed therein for aeration.

5. The insole of claim 1 and a thin layer of wear resistant material apPlied over said second layer.