Footwear

• US 4,373,275 A
• Filed: 10/03/1980
• Issued: 02/15/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lydiard Shoe Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Lydiard Shoe Company Limited
• Inventors: Lydiard, Graeme K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lawson, Patrick D.
• Application Number:
  US06/193,464
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: 36/106, 36/114, 36/54, 36/110, 36/129
• US Class Current: 36/129
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/26 Tongues for shoes
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/06 Running shoes; Track shoes

Abstract

An athletic shoe is provided with an open-toe to facilitate cooling of the wearers'"'"' foot during running. The tongue of the shoe is attached to one side edge of the shoe.

Claims

1. An athletic shoe, comprising a molded sole with an upper attached thereto characterized in that the forward section of the upper terminates short of the toe of the sole so as to form an opened toed shoe, the upper being affixed to the remainder of the sole to extend upwardly from the periphery thereof to form a heel portion joined to lateral portions, each lateral portion incorporating lace receiving apertures adjacently along an upper edge thereof save for a section thereof bordering the heel portion to thus define in conjunction with the heel portion an ankle opening, a tongue attached along a lateral edge section thereof to one of the lateral sections of the upper, adjacent the attachment of the upper to the sole, the tongue being arranged to be disposed on lacing of the shoe beneath both sections of the upper incorporating the lace apertures.