Patent ID: 9254016
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A43B,A43C

Claim Text:
1. A kit for converting a non-cycling shoe into a shoe which is capable of attaching a cycling cleat, the kit comprising: (a) a device which is a contoured plate substantially the size of a front half of a sole of the shoe with a topside and an underside, where the topside has a recessed area, where the underside has a cleat attachment area adapted to protrude through a thru hole which is cut in the sole, where the cleat attachment surface area is adapted to attach a cycling cleat, where the underside includes a shoe attachment area, where the shoe attachment area includes one or more shoe mounting holes for mounting the device to the sole, where the device has one or more ground contact preventing member mounting holes, where the device contoured plate of the device attaches to the interior is assembled under a removable inner liner of a non-cycling shoe by inserting the device thru the thru hole which is cut in the shoe, thus the shoe attachment area of the contoured plate contacts the top surface of the bottom sole and the cleat attachment area protrudes thru the thru hole; (b) one or more detachable ground contact preventing members, where the ground contact preventing members are mounted on either side of the cleat attachment area, where the one or more detachable ground contact preventing members have one or more securing holes to secure the one or more detachable ground contact preventing members to the device, where the securing holes align with the ground contact preventing member mounting holes of the device: (c) one or more first connectors to mount the shoe to the device through the shoe mounting holes; (d) one or more second connectors for fastening the detachable ground contact preventing members to the device; and (e) a template for identifying a location on the sole for the one or more mounting holes, and the thru hole for the cleat attachment surface of the device.