Shoe to be worn over cast

• US 4,265,033 A
• Filed: 03/21/1979
• Issued: 05/05/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: P.W. Minor & Son, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sidney R. Pols
• Inventors: Pols, Sidney R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kee Chi, James
• Application Number:
  US06/022,447
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• Field of Search: 36/110, 36/1, 36/8.1, 36/37, 36/69, 36/81, 128/82, 128/83.5
• US Class Current: 36/110
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/00 Footwear with health or hygienic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/043 Shoe-like cast covers; Cast socks A61F15/004 takes precedence; shoe-like orthopaedic devices for protecting the feet against injuries after operations A61F5/0195; walking soles A61F13/045
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0195 Shoe-like orthopaedic devices for protecting the feet against injuries after operations

Abstract

A removable shoe to be worn over a cast that extends over the foot of a person, which shoe provides protection to the cast and by use of a heel wedge preferably inserted in the shoe, and with an area below the main face of the wedge to accommodate the bottom of the cast, provides an improved walking action for the user.

Claims

1. A shoe to be worn over a cast which comprises

an upper which is adapted to fit around the lower portion of a cast and which has a toe and heel portion, the upper including

a pair of side halves detachably secured around the cast by a plurality of straps,

a sole having a toe and heel portion with a flat bottom surface and having said side halves joined to the sole along its outer margin,

said upper side halves meeting at the front and rear of the sole for enclosing the cast,

a continuously forwardly tapered cast supporting heel wedge within said upper and higher at the rear thereof and extending forwardly from the rear of the upper a distance of the order of two thirds of the length of the sole from the rear,

said wedge between its side margins having a central longitudinally extending cutout portion for the reception of the transversely curved bottom of the cast.

2. A shoe to be worn over a cast as defined in claim 1 in which

said wedge has a cross bracing portion rearwardly of its front edge.

3. A shoe to be worn over a cast as defined in claim 1 in which

said straps are attached to one of said upper halves,

strips of thistle cloth are attached to said straps, and

strips of complemental thistle cloth are attached to said other of said halves.

4. A shoe to be worn over a cast as defined in claim 1 in which

one of said straps is contiguous to the toe,

another of said straps is forward of the ankle, and

another of said straps is horizontally disposed around the heel.