Shoe, in particular sports shoe

• US 9,414,645 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2012
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Puma SE
• Original Assignee: Puma SE
• Inventors: Krueger, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoey, Alissa L
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLLIER, JAMESON D
• Application Number:
  US14/376,275
• Publication Number:
  US 20150013193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,655 Days
• Field of Search: 36/45, 36/501, 36/585, 36/586, 36/83, 361/14
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/0265 having different properties in different directions
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/00 Footwear for sporting purposes non-skid devices, e.g. ice-spurs or studs for football shoes, A43C15/00
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 1/00 Shoe lacing fastenings garment fastening devices A41F
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 1/006 Rear lacing, i.e. with a lace placed on the back of the foot in place of, or in addition to the traditional front lace
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 1/04 with rings or loops
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 1/06 tightened by draw-strings
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 7/06 Elastic bands

Abstract

The invention relates to a shoe, in particular to a sports shoe, which has a shoe upper part and a sole which is connected to the shoe upper part, wherein the shoe upper part having two tensioning sections which are arranged adjacently in a tensioning region and are separated by a gap, wherein a fastening system is arranged by which the shoe can be fastened to the foot of the wearer of the shoe by a fastening lace as a result of the adjacently arranged tensioning sections being drawn towards one another. In order to improve the tension of the shoe on the foot of the wearer, the fastening system includes, in addition to the fastening lace, at least one tie element which has two ends, and wherein a loop of the at least one tie element formed in the region of the tensioning section being enlaced by the fastening lace.

Claims

1. Shoe, comprising:

a shoe upper part and a sole which is connected to the shoe upper part,

the shoe upper part has two tensioning sections arranged adjacently in a tensioning region and separated by a gap,

a fastening system comprising a fastening lace and at least one tie element, the fastening system arranged by which the shoe can be fastened to the foot of the wearer of the shoe by the fastening lace as a result of the adjacently arranged tensioning sections being drawn towards one another,

the at least one tie element has two ends,

a first end of the two ends of the at least one tie element is directly secured in the region of a first of the two tensioning sections,

the at least one tie element extending into the region of the sole and a second end of the two ends of the at least one tie element is directly secured in the region of the sole,

the at least one tie element running from the first of the two tensioning sections to the sole,

at least one guide on the shoe upper part in which the at least one tie element is at least partially displaceably arranged in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the at least one tie element, and

an open loop is formed in the at least one tie element, a first end of the open loop is the first end of the at least one tie element, the first end of the open loop is spaced apart from a top end of the respective guide, and the loop is enlaced by the fastening lace.

2. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein the second end of the at least one tie element is directly secured in the region of the sole at the shoe upper part or at the sole.

3. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein the at least one guide runs continuously from the first of the two tensioning sections to the sole.

4. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein the at least one guide runs bow-shaped from the first of the two tensioning sections to the sole.

5. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein the at least one guide runs at least in some sections in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the shoe.

6. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein

a second of the at least one tie element is arranged in a second of the at least one guide,

the second of the at least one tie element coming from the region of the sole and guided in a circular guide around a heel region of the shoe upper part of the shoe.

7. Shoe according to claim 6, wherein the circular guide is arranged in an upper edge region of the shoe upper part.

8. Shoe according to claim 6, wherein the second of the at least one tie element, coming from the circular guide, runs from the first of the two tensioning sections to the second of the two tensioning sections and is connected at least in some sections with the second of the two tensioning sections.

9. Shoe according to claim 8, wherein the second of the at least one tie element is connected with the second of the two tensioning sections in the region of the second of the two tensioning sections in such a manner that a relative displacement is possible between the second of the at least one tie element and the first of the two tensioning sections in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the second of the at least one tie element, the second of the at least one tie element is arranged in a tube-shaped guide which is interrupted in sections and is attached at the second of the two tensioning sections.

10. Shoe according to claim 8, wherein the second of the at least one tie element is enlaced by the fastening lace in the region of the second of the two tensioning sections.

11. Shoe according to claim 6, wherein the second of the at least one tie element, coming from the second of the two tensioning sections, is guided in a supplementary guide to the region of the sole.

12. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein the at least one guide has a tube-shaped design.

13. Shoe according claim 1, wherein the at least one tie element consists of a wire made of high tensile strength material.

14. Shoe according to claim 1, wherein the shoe is a soccer shoe.