Patent ID: 9107475
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: A42B,A43B,B32B,F16F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A shoe or other footwear comprising: a shoe upper and a shoe sole including at least a bottom sole portion; at least a portion of said shoe sole being formed by a sole section having an inner surface and an outer surface and wherein the sole section is separate from the bottom sole portion; at least a portion of the sides of said shoe upper being attached directly to the bottom sole portion such that the shoe upper envelopes, on the outside, at least the sole section of said shoe sole, such that the sole section of said shoe sole is located within a structure formed by a combination of said bottom sole portion and a portion of said shoe upper that is attached to said bottom sole portion, as viewed in a frontal plane cross-section when the shoe sole is upright and in an unloaded condition; the inner surface of the sole section including at least one convexly rounded portion, said convexity being determined relative to a portion of the sole section directly adjacent to the inner surface of the sole section, as viewed in a frontal plane cross-section when the sole section is upright and in an unloaded condition; the outer surface of the sole section including at least one concavely rounded portion, said concavity being determined relative to a portion of the sole section directly adjacent to the outer surface of the sole section, as viewed in a frontal plane cross-section when the sole section is upright and in an unloaded condition; each said concavely rounded portion of the outer surface of the sole section being located on the sole section at a location corresponding to the location of at least one convexly rounded portion of the inner surface of the sole section so as to define a rounded portion of the sole section located between said convexly rounded portion of the inner surface of the sole section and said concavely rounded portion of the outer surface of the sole section, as viewed in a frontal plane cross-section when the sole section is upright and in an unloaded condition;