Patent ID: 6792697
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
A foot protection kit, comprising:a storage container; a sheet of assembly instructions; and a pair of identical unassembled protective slippers of substantially identical construction; wherein each individual one of said pair of identical unassembled protective slippers includes: a flat planar sheet of a soft resilient material having a width dimension of about five and one half inches, a length dimension of about twelve inches and a thickness of between about three eighths of an inch and about five eighths of an inch; said flat planar sheet being punched with a set of rip prevention holes including a set of foot hook rip preventing holes, a set of slit rip preventing holes; a set of toe guard hook rip preventing holes; and a set of foot loop alignment holes; said flat planar sheet having a front portion and a rear portion wherein said front portion has an irregular shape that includes an orientation marker protuberance and wherein said rear portion has a smooth semicircular shape outer edge; said flat planar sheet further having a rear cut line substantially identical in shape to said rear portion but inset slightly from said outer edge to form a heel portion and a foot loop portion, said foot loop portion having a strap like configuration with a width dimension of between about one eighth of an inch and about two inches; said rear cut line terminating at its opposite ends in mirror image rip prevention arches each having a radius of between about one sixteenth of an inch to about one half of an inch and wherein each individual arch is in communication with individual ones of the foot hook rip prevention holes in said set of foot hook rip prevention holes; said foot loop portion having disposed therein a slit, wherein said slit has a length of about one inch and terminating at its opposite ends in individual ones of the slit rip preventing holes in said set of slit rip preventing holes, wherein said slip rip preventing holes have a diameter of between about one sixteenth of an inch and one eighth of an inch; and said flat planar sheet further having a pair of mirror image front cut lines extending inwardly from said front portion to form a pair of toe support platforms and a toe guard hook, said toe guard hook having sufficient width and length dimensions to engage and be latched releasably within said slit when said foot loop portion is separated from said heel portion and is bent forwardly into alignment with said a set of foot loop alignment holes and said toe guard hook is bent rearward into alignment with said set of foot loop alignment holes; and said sheet of instructions for guiding a user to place said pair of identical unassembled protective slippers of substantially identical construction in a mirror image orientation so that they can be distinguished from one another as a right foot protective slipper and a left foot protective slipper.