Multiple-purpose elastic shoe

• US 5,235,761 A
• Filed: 10/03/1991
• Issued: 08/17/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Che-Yuan Chang
• Original Assignee: Che-Yuan Chang
• Inventors: Chang, Che-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Meyers, Steven N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATTERSON, MARIE D
• Application Number:
  US07/771,128
• Time in Patent Office: 684 Days
• Field of Search: 36/3 R, 36/3 B, 36/27, 36/28, 36/29, 36/137, 36/139
• US Class Current: 36/3.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0072 made at least partially of transparent or translucent materials
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 13/182 Helicoidal springs
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/34 with electrical or electronic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/36 with light sources
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/50 with sound or music sources
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/081 the air being forced from outside
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/146 provided with acupressure points or means for foot massage

Abstract

A shoe includes an outsole having an elastic jacket formed on the outsole for exerting an elastic property of the shoe, a midsole made of or impregnated with medical compositions for diffusing medicine vapors onto a wearer'"'"'s foot for treating the wearer'"'"'s disease, an insole formed with beehive polygonal protrusions for massaging a wearer'"'"'s foot, an illuminator and a musical or alarm device formed in the outsole for optical decorative and musical entertaining or emergency warning purposes.

Claims

1. A shoe comprising:

an outsole formed on a bottom portion of a shoe having an upper formed thereon;

an elastic jacket embedded in the outsole including;

a lower substrate adjacent to a bottom portion of said outsole, an upper layer secured with a perforated midsole positioned above the elastic jacket, a side cover connected between the upper layer and the lower substrate circumferentially disposed around a circumferential side portion of the elastic jacket, a plurality of elastic pumping means formed between the lower substrate and the upper layer resiliently expandably retaining the lower substrate and the upper layer and operatively depressed for pumping air upwardly through the perforated midsole, a perforated insole formed above the midsole for ventilating a wearer'"'"'s foot, and a plurality of atmospheric ventilating holes formed in the side cover communicating the atmosphere;

an illuminating means and a sounding means formed in said elastic jacket in said outsole,

the improvement which comprises;

each said elastic pumping means including;

a lower cylinder formed on the lower substrate having a plurality of ventilating holes formed in the lower cylinder, an upper cylinder secured to the upper layer slidably jacketed on the lower cylinder having a plurality of ventilating holes formed in the upper cylinder, a tensioning spring retained in the upper and lower cylinders and an upper tube protruding upwardly from the upper cylinder through the upper layer having a central hole formed in the upper tube communicating the midsole and an interior in the jacket.

2. A shoe according to claim 1, wherein an arcuate spring plate is provided in the elastic jacket at a heel position of a shoe for reinforcing the elastic pumping means, the spring plate having its two opposite ends slidably held on the lower substrate of said jacket.