Patent ID: 6594920
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
A ski boot comprising a composite variable-volume shell having a bottom molded-plastic portion (2) and a flexible top portion, the shell being divided, by a longitudinal opening line (9), into an outward side corresponding to an external side of a foot and a medial side corresponding to a medial side of the foot, one of these sides having a flap (12) which closes against the other side (11), wherein the top portion of the shell, to which the flap is connected and in which the longitudinal opening line is located, forms part of a flexible upper (1) that is enclosed, in its lower portion, by the molded plastic portion (2), and wherein a front laterally extending edge of the flap (12) is connected to the upper by an intermediary extensible elastic part (15).