Abstract:
The present invention relates to individual transport ways of conveyance, and includes changes in the design of the bottom part of the boot with a thickening sole, which consists the hidden installation into its the additional metal insole, fastened with the main shoe&#39;s insole, and the slit of a rectangular longitudinal aperture in the sole for the hidden installation in its the portable mechanical device with a stationary attachment to the boot without changing the appearance and form of the sole and the shoes.  
     This does the possibility to fulfill with the hidden mechanical device the walking in the sneakers or other shoes as outside, as inside buildings. The moving forward from the mechanical device beyond the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface, the frame with the rotational ball-bearing wheels imparts to the customary shoes with a thickening sole the new, additional function as an individual transport way. The employment of the customary shoes, with children and adults, by turns in two versions—in the traditional, pedestrian and in the new, additional as an individual transport way for the rapid movement makes it possible for people as required repeatedly in the course of a day, using the same shoes without taking them off the feet, to transfer from walking into gliding on the asphalted surface and back from gliding to walking on any location.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
         [0001]    1. Technical Field  
           [0002]    The present invention relates to individual transport ways of conveyance and enables to speed up the moving of pedestrians.  
           [0003]    2. Background Art  
           [0004]    People are transported from one place to another by cars, public transport, bicycles or surmount necessary distances by walking. Of course, the faster transports are cars, but considerable quantities of people don&#39;t have it for different reasons: financial means, disease or owing to the insufficiency of necessary age. There is a considerable part of the population that makes use of a public transport, bicycles, or walking. The use of public transport on short distances has some shortcomings. One main fault is that this kind of transport doesn&#39;t allow the reaching of the destination often, and a person must overcome the rest of the distance by foot. This requires the additional time and the greater expenditure of energy. In addition, bicycles and roller-skates are used by people basically for the strengthening of their physical condition.  
           [0005]    Apart from the adults, the pedestrians are often schoolchildren who walk to school. Some of these schoolchildren overcome a distance from a home to a school and back by using bicycles and roller-skates; however, they need special places for its storage. Besides, roller-skating needs to be changed to the customary shoes at a place of arrival. But as a rule, these special spaces are lacking in many schools. These drawbacks limit the use of bicycles or roller-skates; therefore, for this category of the population, a sole way out to overcome the necessary distance is by walking.  
           [0006]    For pupils exist the dilemma: either twice a day a day they overcome the distance from a home to a school and back by walking, or parents must take them in cars. A second option causes additional difficulties with the employment of the population, and children in the time of their scarcity in the motion under contemporary conditions lose the opportunity to stay outside in fresh air and obtain necessary exercise.  
           [0007]    The purpose of the present invention is the creation of the new individual transport way for the pedestrian&#39;s rapid transfer without the employment of any traditional transport way. The most appropriate for realizing this invention&#39;s aim is available on the market boots with a thickening (from 30 mm to 50 mm) sole, which became one of the basic objects in the process of creation of a new individual transport way. The invention&#39;s main practical task is the use of indicated shoes for the following two functions: in traditional, pedestrian and in new, additional as an individual transport way. It was necessary to observe the following: a shoe for the individual transport way must not be heavy, must be comfortable, and must have a reasonable price. This will enable the invention to become attractive for a mass consumer as an individual transport way for the rapid transfer and the helper in the strengthening of one&#39;s physical condition.  
         SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
         [0008]    The present invention is the individual transport means, wherein the customary shoes has a thickened sole and with installed in its a mechanical device is used for dual purpose: the traditional, pedestrian function of the shoes and the new, additional transport function, allowing the person to use these shoes to either walk to different locations, including inside buildings, or glide for the rapid movement on asphalted grounds. Thus, the same shoes can be used for both, walking and gliding, without taking them off the feet.  
           [0009]    The invention includes boots with a thickened (from 30 mm to 50 mm) sole, with a hidden insert in the shoes and an additional hard insole from a thin lightweight metal with longitudinal corrugated edges; this insole is fastened together with the boot&#39;s main insole. On the larger part of the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface, a rectangular aperture is cut out, in which is installed a made from lightweight metal mechanical device. This device is fastened with the shoe&#39;s additional and main insoles. The manufacture of an additional insole and a mechanical device from the lightweight metal allows the shoes themselves to remain lightweight.  
           [0010]    A design of the mechanical device allows its concealment in the boot&#39;s sole and doesn&#39;t modify the appearance and form as a sole, as the whole of the shoes. Owing to this, remain the shoe&#39;s traditional, pedestrian function and the unimpeded walking as inside buildings as outside on any locality together with the mechanical device. This device comprises a metal box, located inside its mobile frame with rotational ball-bearing wheels (from 3 to 6 according to the size of the shoes). The moving forward of the frame with the wheels proceeds from the box beyond the border of a sole&#39;s bottom outside surface and as a result the shoes acquire the additional transport function, and the employment with a person, this shoe converts it into the transport way for a rapid movement.  
           [0011]    During a conversion from the pedestrian version in transport, the frame with rotational wheels moves forward completely beyond a border of the box, and after the turn of 180 degrees, the frame thrusts in the box, and what&#39;s more, by now wheels jut out beyond a border of the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface.  
           [0012]    The simplicity and the quickness (without any instrument, within a few seconds) of the conversion of the dual purpose shoes from the pedestrian version in transport and back from the transport version in pedestrian give one the ability to turn repeatedly in the course of a day from the walking into the gliding on wheels and back, from gliding to walking, using the same shoes without taking them off the feet. With all this in both versions, the fixation of the mechanical device in the shoe&#39;s sole, on a level with its simplicity, has the strict guarantee of security, and ever so much enlarges people&#39;s individual opportunities in his/her activity.  
           [0013]    The design of the mechanical device, with the aid of which the indicated customary shoes becoming a transport means, is simple and compact, with its stationary hidden installation in the boot&#39;s bottom part not changing its appearance and form. This enables adults and children to move in the shoes combined with the mechanical device at any surface including inside buildings, without the changing of the boots. The fast and easy conversion of the mechanical device from the non-working version (hidden arrangement in the boot&#39;s sole) to the working version (moving forward the wheels outside of the sole&#39;s bottom surface), which impart to the shoes the transport function without the use of any instruments, gives people the ability, without taking the shoes off the feet, to switch repeatedly in the course of a day from walking to gliding on wheels and back from gliding to walking. The moving forward of the wheels on the optimum lever outside the sole&#39;s bottom creates conditions, which don&#39;t need the special skills or instructions for the use of shoes as the individual transport way. The facility in the employment of the shoes in two versions, to a great extent, will increase individual bents of people, the possibilities to actively conduct in different conditions of his stay, attach to the physical activity of thousands of people, particularly children and teenagers. Moreover, the mass employment of this individual transport&#39;s type will conduce of the improvement of the ecological situation in our land. 
       
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
       [0014]    [0014]FIG. 1 is the exterior view of the dual purpose shoes for walking and gliding with the installed inside the mechanical device in the pedestrian version;  
         [0015]    [0015]FIG. 2 is the exterior view of the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface in the pedestrian version;  
         [0016]    [0016]FIG. 3 is the exterior view of the dual purpose shoes in the transport version;  
         [0017]    [0017]FIG. 4 is the exterior view and the form of main and additional boot&#39;s insoles;  
         [0018]    [0018]FIG. 5 is the exterior view of the aperture from the side of the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface;  
         [0019]    [0019]FIG. 6 is the exterior view of a shred from the sole&#39;s bottom part under the aperture;  
         [0020]    [0020]FIG. 7 is the exterior view from below of the mechanical device in its passive (pedestrian) condition;  
         [0021]    [0021]FIG. 8 is the exterior view from below of the mechanical device in its active (transport) condition;  
         [0022]    [0022]FIG. 9 is the cross-section of the mechanical device in its passive condition;  
         [0023]    [0023]FIG. 10 is the exterior view from below of the box without the lid;  
         [0024]    [0024]FIG. 11 is the exterior view from below of the frame with wheels;  
         [0025]    [0025]FIG. 12 is the cross-section of the mechanical device in its active condition;  
         [0026]    [0026]FIG. 13 is the side view and a cross-section of the wheel and its formed parts;  
         [0027]    [0027]FIG. 14 is the longitudinal section of the dual purpose shoes in its pedestrian function; and  
         [0028]    [0028]FIG. 15 is the longitudinal section of the dual purpose shoes in its transport function.  
     
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
       [0029]    The present invention allows the use of everyday shoes for dual purpose: in traditional, pedestrian mode (FIG. 1) and in a new, additional mode as individual transport way (FIG. 3). The invention includes boots with a thickened sole, with an additional insole, defining an interior aperture cut along the sole for the hidden installation of a mechanical transport device with a permanent attachment to the boot. This decided first half of the task—to preserve the pedestrian function of the shoes without changing its appearance and form (FIG. 1).  
         [0030]    In a passive version, this individual transport way follows together with a pedestrian, without causing any problems with the carrying of the device and the pursuit of special places for its storing. It enables for people to behave active in everyday places with the pedestrian character of the transference in premises, in grounds of landscape.  
         [0031]    [0031]FIG. 1 illustrates an exterior view of the dual purpose shoes in the pedestrian version with a hidden placing of the mechanical device in the boot&#39;s bottom part without changing its appearance and form. The boot touches the surface of an area  40  with the usual for a shoes sole&#39;s bottom outside surface  28 .  
         [0032]    [0032]FIG. 2 demonstrates a sole&#39;s bottom outside surface  28  in the pedestrian function, where is view, that a tracery  32  around the aperture  30  of sole  27  is interrupted and supplemented with a tracery of a longitudinal narrow layer  31  from the same sole, and this layer is the part of a box&#39;s lid of the mechanical device. The maintenance of ordinary external appearance of the sole&#39;s bottom surface in the time of the concealed position of the mechanical device in the sole allows the use of the dual purpose shoes as inside buildings as outside.  
         [0033]    The simplicity of the conversion of the mechanical device from the passive version (hidden arrangement of the device in the boot&#39;s sole) in the active, transport version (moving forward a frame with wheels from a box beyond the border of a sole&#39;s bottom outside surface) made to decide also second half of the invention&#39;s task: an addition to usual shoes the new function as the individual transport way.  
         [0034]    In the transport version (FIG. 3) of the dual purpose shoes, rotational wheels  26  jut out beyond the border of a sole&#39;s bottom outside surface  28 , and a boot touches already the surface of an area  40  with wheels  26 . A quickness of the conversion of the dual purpose shoes from one function to another, without excluding any instruments, gives one the capability to turn repeatedly in the course of a day from walking into gliding on rollers and back from gliding to walking, using the same shoes without taking them off the feet. The moving forward of wheels (from 3 to 6, depending on the shoe&#39;s size), in one line, with a flat, equipped surface on the optimum lever outside the sole&#39;s bottom, creates conditions for the easy, smooth, maneuverable gliding, that doesn&#39;t need any additional skills or instructions.  
         [0035]    A change of the design of the shoe&#39;s bottom part includes the installation of the additional insole  25  and the aperture&#39;s slit  30  along the sole&#39;s  27  central part. The additional insole  25  (FIG. 4) repeats the form of the shoe&#39;s main insole  29 , but a little in the diminished size on the sides and in the shoe&#39;s forward part. The additional insole is made from a thin (1 mm) sheet of the lightweight metal with longitudinal corrugated edges  35 , which give the strength to the insole. Its diminished size doesn&#39;t upset the technology of the connection of the boot&#39;s upper part with its main insole and the sole.  
         [0036]    Slit in the sole is an aperture  30  (FIG. 5), which is the rectangular parallelogram, depending on the size of the shoe and the mechanical device has a length from 140 mm to 250 mm, a width from 30 mm to 50 mm, and a depth from 30 mm to 50 mm. The forward part  33  of the sole (about ⅙-{fraction (1/7)} part of its length) doesn&#39;t catch with an aperture.  
         [0037]    The thin layer  31  cut out from the sole (FIG. 6) is fastened to the metal base  38  of the frame (FIG. 9), and together they form the box&#39;s lid  36  (FIG. 2). The lid&#39;s ends  37  touch with the sole&#39;s ends  34 , their traceries  32  add one another, create one whole, and preserve the sole&#39;s exterior view in a pedestrian version of the dual purpose shoes for walking and gliding.  
         [0038]    The mechanical device  21  (its exterior view in the passive version illustrates FIG. 7, in the active FIG. 8) made from the lightweight metal, has a form of a rectangular parallelogram, and consists from the box  22  and the located inside its mobile frame  23  with rotational ball-bearing wheels  26 . In the passive version (the shoe&#39;s pedestrian version) of the mechanical device (FIG. 9) the wheels  26  are inside the box and are covered with the lid  36 , in the active version (FIG. 8) the wheels jut out beyond the border of the box&#39;s bottom ends  22 .  
         [0039]    A box  22  (FIG. 10) is the device&#39;s  21  exterior surface. The box&#39;s size depends on the shoe&#39;s size, wheels&#39; amount and diameter, and conforms to the aperture&#39;s size, wherein the box is inserted. The box has opposite front  39  and rear  41  sides, opposite lateral sides  42 , and top side  24 . With an aid of this top side, the box is fastened to the shoe&#39;s insoles. Inside the box  22  is the ledge  43  by a thickening  44  of top parts of the box&#39;s lateral  42  and front  39  sides (FIG. 10). There is formed a shaft, wherein is situated the frame  23  with wheels  26 . For a strength, the box is divisible in two equal parts with the transverse partition  46  on the level of the thicken part until the ledge  43  on lateral sides. The fastening of the frame  23  with the steady position in the box  22  is realized with the aid of the catch  47  situated on the box&#39;s front side  39 , and the lock  48  on the box&#39;s rear side  41 . Owing to this on the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface  28  (FIG. 2), it is visible from the front the catch  47  and from behind the lock&#39;s handle  49 .  
         [0040]    The frame  23  (FIG. 11) has the rectangular form, opposite front  50  and rear  51  sides, and opposite lateral  52  sides. The frame&#39;s length and width conform to interior length and width of the box. Bottom edges of the frame dispose on the level of bottom edges of the box. The frame is divided with transverse partitions  53  on cells, wherein insert wheels  26 . Its axles  54  remain fixed motionless in holes on the frame&#39;s lateral sides. Wheels take place on the frame, thus that 55-60% of the wheels&#39; diameter makes up all the frame&#39;s height, and 40-45% of its diameter juts out beyond the border of the frame. At that, the frame&#39;s height, including the height of the projection of the rollers, corresponds to the inside height of the box. On the frame&#39;s front side  50 , from below and from above, hollows  55  are, in which the box&#39;s hooked catch  47  is inserted, and on the frame&#39;s rear side  51  are two chinks  56  for the entrance into its lock&#39;s latch  57 . In the mechanical device&#39;s passive state (FIG. 9), the frame  23  with ends its sides leans on the box&#39;s ledge  43 ; the frame&#39;s top side  38  together with the attached to its sole&#39;s thin layer  31  covers the wheels  26  from below and at the same time is used as the box&#39;s lid  36 . There is the hold  59  on the lid&#39;s rear side, which is used to pull the frame from the box.  
         [0041]    There is the moving forward of the frame  23  from the box  22 , the turn of the frame on 180 degrees, and then an installation its in the box, but wheels jut out now from the box and the mechanical device is transferred from the passive (pedestrian) condition (FIG. 7) into the active (transport) condition (FIG. 8). The frame&#39;s top side  38  (box&#39;s lid  36 ), how FIG. 12 illustrates, leans on the box&#39;s stable inside ledges  43 , which are the reliable support for the frame  23  during the moving of a person, and allows to bear any of his/her weight.  
         [0042]    [0042]FIG. 13 shows the wheel with a diameter from 30 mm to 50 mm and with a thickness from 20 mm to 25 mm, rotated around its axle  54  and consisted of the rim  60 , in which are inserted from two sides in one set  61  of the ball-bearings. Every set consists of the ball-bearings core  62 , the washer  65  covered the ball-bearings from the opposite side of the bush  63 , and the shell  66  fastened together the washer and the bush with the ball-bearings in one set  61 .  
         [0043]    In the pedestrian function of the dual purpose shoes, how FIG. 14 demonstrates in the longitudinal section, the mechanical device  21  takes place inside the sole&#39;s rectangular aperture  30 , the box  22  is attached stationary with its top side  24  to main  29  and additional  25  insoles with rivets  67 . The additional insole is covered with the soft insole  68 . Between the box&#39;s top side and insoles is the sole&#39;s thin layer  69 , which transfers from the front, behind and on either sides in the sole&#39;s  27  main, thickened part, which surrounds the box. The frame  23  is inside the box  22 , and jutting out wheels are turned to the box&#39;s top side. The frame&#39;s top side  38  is fastened to the thin layer  31  of the sole&#39;s bottom outside part and covers from below the mechanical device. The frame leans on the box&#39;s ledge  43  and holds firm from the front with the hooked catch  47 , from behind with the lock&#39;s  48  latch  57  pushed in the chink  56  on the frame. The spring  70  on the lock keeps always the latch  57  in the closed (pushed in the frame&#39;s chink) position. The moving forward of the latch from the chink is possible only after it is pulled ahead on the locks&#39; handle  49 , until the support of the box&#39;s rear side. This principle of the lock&#39;s working prevents its accidental opening during the gliding.  
         [0044]    [0044]FIG. 15 illustrates the longitudinal section of main details of the dual purpose shoes in the transport version. After the frame&#39;s turning on 180 degrees, the lid  36  of the frame moves from the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface inside the box. As a result, the frame  23  leans with the lid  36  against the box&#39;s ledge  43 , and the frame&#39;s borders take up the position at the level of the bottom edges of the box&#39;s sides. A that, the wheels  26  jut out beyond the sole&#39;s bottom outside surface  28 , and the shoe touches the asphalted surface already not with the sole, but with the rotational ball-bearing wheels  26 . This imparts to the boot the function of the individual transport way, and the person can move up from walking to gliding on wheels, using the same shoes and not taking them off his/her feet.  
         [0045]    The transfer of the dual purpose shoes from the pedestrian function (FIGS. 1, 14) to the transport function (FIGS. 3, 15) is realized as follows: the lock&#39;s handle  49  is pushed by the finger of the hand ahead until the support on the box&#39;s rear side  41 . Then, the lid&#39;s  36  semi-circular hold  59  is grasped with the finger of the other hand, and the frame is pulled out from the box, whereupon the lock&#39;s handle  49  is released, and the frame is turned on 180 degrees. After this, the frame&#39;s front end is put under the box&#39;s catch  47  and the frame&#39;s rear end is pressed on until a click of the lock  48 .  
         [0046]    The return transfer from the function of the transport way (FIGS. 3, 15) to the pedestrian function (FIGS. 1, 14) is realized in the following way: the lock&#39;s handle  49  is pushed with the finger of the hand ahead until the support. Then the rear wheel  26  is clasped with the other hand, the frame is pulled out of the box, and the lock&#39;s handle  49  is released. After the turn of the frame in 180 degrees, the frame is put with the front end under the box&#39;s catch  47 , and follows the pressure on the frame&#39;s lid until the lock&#39;s click.