Patent ID: 6415529
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
A shoe ventilation apparatus comprising:a shoe including a bottom sole, a heel portion, and an upper portion; a pocket securely attached to an exterior of said upper portion of said shoe; a bellows having an air-inlet port and an air-outlet port and being disposed in said heel portion; an air-intake conduit member having an air-inlet end which is securely attached to and extended into said pocket for receiving air from outside said shoe, and also having an air-outlet end which is securely connected to said air-inlet port of said bellows; at least one air outtake conduit members having an air-inlet end connected to said air-outlet port of said bellows with said at least one outtake conduit member extending throughout said bottom sole of said shoe and also having air-outlet ends extending out of a top of said bottom sole for ventilating a user's foot disposed inside said shoe; and a thermo-retentive device removably positioned in said interior of said pocket wherein said pocket has an open top into an interior of said pocket, and a flap member for selectively closing said open top.