Patent ID: 6012236
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
An innerboot for insertion inside an outer shell of a sports shoe, the innerboot having an inside surface for arrangement adjacent a user's foot and an outside surface for arrangement adjacent an inside surface of the outer shell of the sports shoe when the innerboot is inserted inside the outer shell of the sports shoe, the innerboot comprising:a first layer of thermoformable material;one or more first holes extending through said first layer of thermoformable material;a second layer connected with said first layer, and said second layer being vapour permeable such that vapour may pass through said first holes of said first layer and through said second layer; andone or more channels formed at said second layer at a surface of said second layer arranged opposite to said first layer;said second layer being deformable sufficient to maintain a presence of said one or more channels upon said first layer of thermoformable material being deformed during a thermoformation process to adapt said first layer of thermoformable material to an anatomical configuration of a user's foot.