Covering for an elasticized band for a shoe provided with a tongue

• US 7,770,308 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2006
• Issued: 08/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LORO Piana SPA (Christian Dior SE)
• Original Assignee: LORO Piana SPA (Christian Dior SE)
• Inventors: Leoncini, Fabio
• Primary Examiner(s): KAVANAUGH, JOHN T
• Application Number:
  US11/334,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20060168848A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,664 Days
• Field of Search: 36/51, 36/54
• US Class Current: 36/54
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/07 Linings therefor lining laminated with upper A43B23/026
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/26 Tongues for shoes
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/08 with rubber or elastic insertions or gussets

Abstract

Described herein is a covering for an elasticized band for a shoe provided with a tongue; the shoe is of the type in which the upper, in a position corresponding to the instep of the foot, has a tongue contained between two sides flaps of the upper, and, inside the shoe, an elasticized band extends between the two flaps of upper in a position facing the tongue; the covering is constituted by a lining, which lines in bridge-like fashion the elasticized band from inside the shoe, and is fixed, on one side, to the upper, in the proximity of the edge of attachment of the tongue and, on the other side, to the end edge of the tongue itself.

Claims

1. A shoe comprising:

a tongue;

a lining;

an upper in an area corresponding to the instep of the foot and having two side flaps, wherein the tongue is contained between the two side flaps of the upper;

an elasticized band inside the shoe, wherein the elasticized band extends between and is sewn to the two flaps of the upper and interposed between the tongue and the lining;

wherein the lining is sewn only to the tongue and forms a covering over the elasticized band, wherein the elasticized band is free to stretch between the tongue and the lining during use of the shoe.

2. The covering according to claim 1, wherein the lining comprising the covering of the elasticized band is the lining of the shoe.

3. The covering according to claim 1, wherein the lining comprising the covering of the elasticized band is sewn to the upper in the proximity of the edge of attachment of the tongue.