Patent ID: 9254015
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A43B,A43C

Claim Text:
1. Footwear, comprising: a) a boot having a shaft and a foot; b) a substrate; and c) means for readily interchangeably maintaining said substrate around only said shaft of said boot and not said foot of said boot so as to at least eliminate potential damage to said substrate caused by normal flexure of said foot of said boot; wherein said substrate readily interchangeably wraps around only said shaft of said boot and not said foot of said boot so as to at least eliminate potential damage to said substrate caused by normal flexure of said foot of said boot; wherein said substrate has free axial edges from after manufacture of said footwear to before donning said footwear; wherein said means is disposed along said free axial edges of said substrate, respectively; wherein said free edges of said substrate comprising said means are not engaged with said boot by way of said means of maintaining; wherein said shaft of said boot has an upper edge; and wherein said substrate does not extend to said upper edge of said shaft of said boot wherein said substrate is a unidirectional elastic substrate; and wherein said unidirectional elastic substrate of said substrate is elastic only horizontally and not vertically so as to allow horizontal stretching to fit smoothly and conformingly around only said shaft of said boot; wherein said means includes hook and loop fasteners; wherein said hook and loop fasteners of said means has a pair of cooperating hook and loop parts; and wherein said pair of cooperating hook and loop parts of said hook and loop fasteners of said means are disposed along said free axial edges of said substrate, respectively.