Patent ID: 7832122
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
1. Shoe heel cup, comprising an elastically deformable material sheet of sufficient stiffness to constitute a shoe reinforcement, conformed to surround a posterior portion of a foot and cover at least a whole of a posterior face of the foot from its base to a point above a calcaneum of the foot and extending forwardly, with a lower edge adapted to be fixed to a shoe sole, the sheet comprising an upper edge with two lateral cutouts that are symmetrical with respect to each other, wherein the lateral cutouts are oriented so that, when the heel cup is in place in the shoe, the lateral cutouts are substantially at the level of the lateral projections of the sub-astragalus cone and the sheet laterally surrounds the calcaneum, wherein the lateral cutouts are oriented along respective axes inclined at approximately 45° relative to the lower edge, have an aperture angle of approximately 30°, and each has a bottom being at a distance of approximately 2 cm from a mid-point of the lower edge.