Illuminated footwear

• US 4,020,572 A
• Filed: 02/17/1976
• Issued: 05/03/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gasper Chiaramonte Jr
• Original Assignee: Gasper Chiaramonte Jr
• Inventors: Chiaramonte, Gasper Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lawson, Patrick D.
• Application Number:
  US05/658,383
• Time in Patent Office: 441 Days
• Field of Search: 36/137
• US Class Current: 36/137
• 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

Abstract

A wedge-shaped platform for footwear and having an illuminated sole portion that is self-contained with a power source therefor, automatically operable and/or manually controlled for high intensity light emission therefrom.

Claims

1. A shoe platform comprised of a sole having an upstanding perimeter wall carrying a foot supporting instep coextensively overlying the sole and establishing a chamber therein, the perimeter wall being made of light transmitting material, and illumination means comprising a lamp within an arch section of the chamber and faced forwardly emitting light for illuminating through the perimeter wall of the shoe platform.

2. The illuminated shoe platform as set forth in claim 1, wherein the illuminating means includes a forwardly faced lens directing light emitted from said light source for illumination through the perimeter wall forward thereof.

3. The illuminated shoe platform as set forth in claim 1, wherein the illuminating means includes the encasement of a light source and battery therefor in a unit replaceable in a heel section of the chamber, there being a lens ahead of said light source for directing illumination through the perimeter wall forwardly thereof.

4. The illuminated shoe platform as set forth in claim 1, wherein the illuminating means includes a capacitor discharge circuit intermittently emitting light therefrom.

5. The illuminated shoe platform as set forth in claim 1, wherein the illuminating means includes a power-pack with trigger means extended by a cable controlled by a switch remote from the shoe to emit light therefrom.