Patent ID: 8782925
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
1. An athletic shoe sized, arranged and configured to operatively house a person's foot of a predetermined size and shape, comprising; a. a sole; b. an upper operatively connected to said sole to form a shoe for said foot, said upper having a forward toebox portion comprising generally non-stretchable material configured to house toes of said foot; said toebox defining a point of actual impact for a selected advancing toe of said foot; said point of actual impact being that predetermined position along said toebox at which said selected advancing toe of said foot for which the shoe was designed, will primarily forcibly engage an inner surface of said toebox when said foot abruptly moves forward within said shoe; c. said toebox defining a cutout portion formed through said generally non-stretchable toebox material and generally centered about said point of actual impact, said cutout portion defining a passageway through and surrounded by said generally non-stretchable material; said passageway being sized and configured to receive and enable at least a forward portion of said selected advancing toe for which said shoe was designed to move into and through said passageway and beyond an outer peripheral surface of said surrounding non-stretchable toebox material; and d. a stretchable layer operatively connected to said generally non-stretchable toebox material and extending across said cutout passageway, having elasticity sufficient to enable said selected advancing toe to move into and through said passageway against the bias of said stretchable layer.