Patent ID: 7793734
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: A01L

Abstract:
1. A moldable shoe for contacting a support footing, comprising: an anterior segment, caudal end portions, and side segments, which are integrally formed, and said shoe having an ungulate surface and a contact surface, wherein said anterior segment and side segments shaped as an ellipse that is open between the ends of said caudal portions to form an open heel and a C-shaped recess between and separating the side segments, which open heel and C-shaped recess includes said caudal end portions, wherein said shoe formed of moldable composition, which forms a resilient, flexile material, wherein said ungulate surface is crowned, said contact surface is planar and both said surfaces are configured from the resilient, flexile material, and wherein said shoe having a first reinforcer and a second reinforcer, said first reinforcer being a pliable, metal rod-like reinforcer, embedded and encased entirely within said moldable composition, and said second reinforcer being a hardened wear insert, embedded and encased substantially entirely within said moldable composition at said anterior segment, which second reinforcer is separated from but fixedly attached to and thereby made integral with a portion of said first reinforcer positioned at said anterior segment and which is constructed to extend from its location of fixed attachment vertically upward to said crowned ungulate surface to realize inherent flexibility and enhanced wear resistance; wherein said second reinforcer comprises a hardened metal, and wherein said hardened metal is fixedly attached within said anterior segment to said first reinforcer utilizing at least two hardened metal prong extensions; and wherein said second reinforcer extends horizontally for a fixed length in said anterior segment and wherein said at least two hardened metal prong extensions operate to vertically set off said horizontal length of said second reinforcer in a horizontal plane that is separate and distinct from a horizontal plane within which said portion of said first reinforcer within said anterior segment is disposed.