Skiboot

• US 4,143,474 A
• Filed: 03/02/1978
• Issued: 03/13/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Garmont SPA
• Original Assignee: Garmont SPA
• Inventors: Blanc, Roger
• Primary Examiner(s): Lawson, Patrick D.
• Application Number:
  US05/882,628
• Time in Patent Office: 376 Days
• Field of Search: 36/117, 36/118, 36/119, 36/120, 36/121, 36/50, 36/54
• US Class Current: 36/118.2
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/0084 Arrangement of flocked decoration on shoes
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/0433 to the width of calf or shin, i.e. fibula, tibia

Abstract

A skiboot has a one-piece vamp secured to the sole of the boot and having a closed toe portion and an upwardly and backwardly opened heel portion. A one-piece forwardly U-shaped rear upper part is pivoted on the vamp at the heel portion thereof and has flaps which lie ahead of the pivots. A tongue is secured to and extends upwardly from the vamp inside the rear upper part between the flaps thereof and has above these flaps a forwardly projecting shoulder. A closure is carried on these flaps for securing them together in front of the tongue underneath the shoulder. The rear part is pivoted back for putting on or taking off the boot, but in use is pivoted forwardly and held in place under the shoulder of the tongue with the closure of the boot tightening the rear part about the ankle of the user.

Claims

1. A skiboot comprising:

a sole adapted to underlie a foot;

a vamp secured on said sole and having a closed toe portion and an upwardly and backwardly open heel portion;

a rear upper part on said heel portion and having a pair of forwardly projecting flaps;

a pivot between said rear upper part and said vamp at said heel portion of said vamp and behind said flaps of said rear upper part;

a tongue secured to and extending upwardly from said vamp inside said rear upper part between said flaps thereof and having above said flaps a forwardly projecting shoulder; and

a closure between said flaps for securing same together in front of said tongue and underneath said shoulder thereof.

2. The skiboot defined in claim 1 wherein said vamp is upwardly closed in front of said tongue.

3. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein said vamp has an extreme rear end with a height above said sole of at most 4 cm.

4. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein said vamp has an upper edge defining a foot-receiving opening at said heel portion and formed at its frontmost portion with an upwardly opening cutout, said tongue being secured to said vamp to either side of said cutout.

5. The skiboot defined in claim 4, further comprising a rivet to each side of said cutout securing said tongue to said vamp.

6. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein said vamp is one piece and said upper part is one piece.

7. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein said upper part is forwardly U-shaped seen from above.

8. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein said upper part is displaceable about said pivots on said vamp between an open position tipped back away from said vamp and allowing a foot to be inserted into said vamp, and a closed position tipped forwardly on said vamp and snugly gripping around an ankle of a foot in said vamp.

9. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein said vamp is rigid.

10. The skiboot defined in claim 2 wherein one of said flaps is extended and can be wrapped around the other of said flaps.