Patent ID: 6938361

Claim:
A pivotal counter assembly for a shoe comprising: a base having a top, a bottom, a rear, a cavity defined in the rear and multiple threaded holes defined in the bottom; a pivot pivotally mounted in the cavity in the base with a pivot pin and having a top, an outer surface and a pivotal hole with an inner surface axially defined in the pivot; a curved counter plate extending upward from the top of the pivot; a torsion spring mounted around the pivot pin, received in the pivotal hole in the pivot and having two ends connected respectively to the base and the pivot to provide a recoil force to the pivot; a push button slidably mounted in the cavity in the base and having a proximal end extending into the cavity and corresponding to the pivot and a distal end extending out from the cavity; an engaging device mounted between the proximal end of the push button and the outer surface of the pivot to keep the pivot from rotating relative to the base and to hold the counter plate at a desired position; and a biasing member mounted between the push button and the base to provide a restitution force to the push button.