Patent ID: 6421934
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: A43B,A43C,A63C

Abstract:
A goalkeeper ice-hockey skate boot with a shell, the shell comprising a sole, a blade fixed on said sole, and an upper connected to said sole and having a cap section, a heel section and an intermediate section, wherein said shell has an inside adapted to face towards another like shell and comprises on its inside at least one protrusion of one-piece construction with said upper adjacent said sole, extending only over a part of said shell in spaced-apart relation to said heel section, and protruding from the normal outer contour of said shell upper by providing a greater thickness of said boot upper at said protrusion adjacent said sole, whereby said protrusion increases the angle between said blade and the ice surface when said shell is tilted and rests on said ice surface with the blade edge and said protrusion.