Elastic spikes and sports shoes with the elastic spikes

• US 6,021,590 A
• Filed: 03/20/1997
• Issued: 02/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co Limited (Bridgestone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co Limited (Bridgestone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Tadatoshi, Morimoto, Mitsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Sewell, Paul T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): STASHICK, ANTHONY D
• Application Number:
  US08/821,307
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 36/61, 36/67 A, 36/67 D, 36/67 R, 36/127, 36/134
• US Class Current: 36/134
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 15/14 with outwardly-movable spikes
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 15/168 with resilient means, e.g. shock absorbing means

Abstract

A spike for a sole is provided with a pin and a receiving portion for receiving a rear end portion of the pin, an elastic member is provided between the rear end portion of the pin and the receiving portion, a sports shoe having elastic spikes is also provided with the sole, and the rubber spikes being arranged in combination with the elastic spikes each including the pin, the receiving portion and the elastic member.

Claims

1. A spike for a sports shoe, comprising:

a pin having an enlarged flange formed at a rear end portion thereof; and

elastic member made of rubber, a cylindrical receiving portion forming a hollow space therein; and

a skirt having a center hole and fastened at an opening portion of the hollow space of the receiving portion, said pin passing in the center hole and, in said hollow space of the receiving portion said enlarged flange of the pin and the elastic member are positioned;

wherein said elastic member has a JIS A hardness of 40 to 90° and

a column-like shape of solid rubber having a diameter in the range of 2-8 mm and a height in the range of 3-8 mm, said receiving portion has a bottom surface at the deepest portion thereof and said receiving portion is threaded around an outer surface thereof, and said elastic member is disposed between said enlarged flange of the pin and said bottom of the receiving portion so as to fill said hollow space of the receiving portion;

whereby said spike is detachably mounted to a seat which is embedded in the sole of a sports shoe.

2. The spike according to claim 1, wherein the elastic member has a hysteresis loss of 10 to 50%.

3. The spike according to claim 1, wherein the elastic member is formed by combining rubbers of different hardnesses.

4. The sports shoe according to claim 1, wherein a tip end of said pin of said elastic spike is higher than a tip end of the rubber spike from the sole.

5. The sports shoe according to claim 1, wherein the tip end of said pin of said elastic spike is higher than the tip end of said rubber spike by 1 to 3 mm.

6. The sports shoe according to claim 1, wherein the number of the rubber spikes is one to ten times greater than that of the elastic spikes.

7. A sports shoe having a combination of elastic spikes and rubber spikes;

wherein the elastic spikes are composed of a pin having an enlarged flange formed at a rear end portion thereof;

an elastic member made of rubber, a cylindrical receiving portion forming a hollow space therein, and a skirt having a center hole and fastened at an opening portion of the hollow space of the receiving portion, a said pin passing in the center hole and, in said hollow space of the receiving portion said enlarged flange of the pin and the elastic member are positioned;

wherein said elastic member has a JIS A hardness of 40 to 90° and

a column-like shape of solid rubber having a diameter in the range of 2-8 mm and a height in the range of 3-8 mm, said receiving portion has a bottom surface at the deepest portion thereof and said receiving portion is threaded around an outer surface thereof, and said elastic member is disposed between said enlarged flange of the pin and said bottom of the receiving portion so as to fill said hollow space of the receiving portion; and

wherein said rubber spikes are composed of a protrusion of the sole, whereby said elastic spikes are detachably mounted to a seat which is embedded in the sole of a sports shoe.

8. A sports shoe comprising:

a combination of first elastic spikes having a relatively soft elastic member and second elastic spikes having a relatively hard elastic member;

wherein the first and second elastic spikes are composed of a pin having an enlarged flange formed at a rear end portion thereof, elastic members made of rubber, a cylindrical receiving portion forming a hollow space therein, and a skirt having a center hole and fastened at an opening portion of the hollow space of the receiving portion, said pin passing in the center hole and, in said hollow space of the receiving portion said enlarged flange of the pin and the elastic member are positioned;

wherein said elastic member of said first elastic spikes has a JIS A hardness of 40 to 80° and

said elastic member of said second elastic spikes has a JIS A hardness of 60°

or more and is harder than the elastic member of the first elastic spikes;

wherein said elastic members of the first and second elastic spikes have a column-like shape of solid rubber having a diameter in the range of 2-8 mm and a height in range of 3-8 mm, said receiving portion has a bottom surface at the deepest portion thereof and said elastic members of the first and second elastic spikes are disposed between said enlarged flange of the pin and said bottom of the receiving portion so as to fill said hollow space of the receiving portion and wherein said first elastic spikes having the relatively soft elastic member are mounted at a portion in which a relatively high pressure to a sole of the shoe is applied and said second elastic spikes having the relatively hard elastic member are mounted at a portion in which a relatively low pressure to the sole of the shoe is applied.

9. The sports shoe of claim 8, wherein said first elastic spikes are placed on the sole of said sports shoes around the periphery in areas of low pressure and said second elastic spikes are spaced on said heel area and a tip area of said sole along a periphery thereof low pressure.

10. The sports shoe of claim 8, wherein a height of said first elastic spikes measured from the sole is at least as high as a height of said second elastic spikes.

11. The sports shoe of claim 8, wherein a height of said first elastic spikes measured from the sole is greater than a height of said second elastic spikes.