Athletic shoe
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1. A shoe comprising:
- a footbed;
an arcuate cable having spaced apart first and second portions, the first portion connected to the footbed at a first position on the footbed, the second portion connected to the footbed at a second position on the footbed spaced apart from the first position;
a flexible panel attached to the footbed, the cable being connected to the panel to define an encompassed panel portion bounded by the cable and the footbed such that portions of the cable are exposed between the first and second portions, the encompassed panel portion defining at least one eyelet proximate the exposed portions of the cable;
a shoelace located through the eyelet and looped about the exposed portions of the cable, with tension in the shoelace being transmittable to the cable, and thereby to the footbed.
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Abstract
An athletic shoe with a shoe upper having a plurality of panels, each of which is secured at a lower edge to the sole of the shoe, and has an arc-shaped upper edge including a high strength flexible loop of cable secured at each of its ends to the sole of the shoe. Each cable is hemmed into the periphery of a panel, and may be exposed in places along the upper edge of the panel so that shoelaces may be looped around the cable to draw together the cables on the medial and lateral sides of the shoe, securing the sole to the wearer'"'"'s foot.
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28 Claims
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1. A shoe comprising:
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a footbed; an arcuate cable having spaced apart first and second portions, the first portion connected to the footbed at a first position on the footbed, the second portion connected to the footbed at a second position on the footbed spaced apart from the first position; a flexible panel attached to the footbed, the cable being connected to the panel to define an encompassed panel portion bounded by the cable and the footbed such that portions of the cable are exposed between the first and second portions, the encompassed panel portion defining at least one eyelet proximate the exposed portions of the cable; a shoelace located through the eyelet and looped about the exposed portions of the cable, with tension in the shoelace being transmittable to the cable, and thereby to the footbed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An athletic shoe, comprising:
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a sole having a toe portion proximate a forward end of the sole and a heel portion proximate a rearward end of the sole; a first cable-panel having a substantially inelastic cable and a flexible panel connected to the cable wherein the cable is fixedly attached to the sole at first and second sole locations, the first sole location being disposed between the second sole location and the forward end; and a second cable-panel having a substantially inelastic cable and a flexible panel connected to the cable wherein the cable is fixedly attached to the sole at third and fourth sole locations, the third sole location being disposed between the first and second sole locations and the fourth sole location being disposed proximate to the rearward end such that the first and second cable-panels overlap between the second and third sole locations. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An athletic shoe, comprising:
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a sole having a toe portion, a ball portion, an arch portion and a heel portion; a heel counter fixedly connected to the sole at the heel portion; a first cable-panel having a substantially inelastic cable connected to a flexible sheet wherein a first end of the cable is fixedly connected to the sole at the toe portion and a second end of the cable is fixedly connected to the sole at the arch portion; and a second cable-panel having a substantially inelastic cable connected to a flexible sheet wherein a first end of the cable is fixedly connected to the sole at the ball portion and a second end of the cable is fixedly connected to the sole at the heel portion so that the first cable-panel and the second cable-panel partially overlap between the ball portion and the arch portion. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A shoe comprising:
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a footbed having lateral and medial footbed portions and toe and heel portions; an upper having lateral and medial upper portions; the lateral and medial upper portions each having a plurality of discrete cable-panels, each of which is reinforced by a respective substantially inelastic cable secured thereto, wherein at least two of the cables in the lateral upper portion and two of the cables in the medial upper portion have opposite ends anchored in the footbed; and wherein at least two of the cable panels partially overlap one another along a portion of the side between the toe and heel portions. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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