Patent ID: 7165342

Claim:
A protective shoe cover for protecting a workman's feet and shoes from injury due to falling objects or falling molten metal weld fragments comprising: a first sheet of tough flexible material, sized and shaped to cover the tongue and lacing area of a shoe, said sheet having a cover portion and a flap portion, said flap portion is foldable onto said cover portion; at least two eyelets for receiving the laces of a shoe formed in a fold area between said flap portion and said cover portion; first releasable fastening elements secured onto the flap portion; second releasable fastening elements secured onto said cover portion for cooperatively engaging said first fastening elements; said first and second releasable fastening elements cooperating to adjustably secure said flap portion onto said cover portion in a manner so as to cover said at least two eyelets a wide strip of releasable fastener material secured onto a back face of said first sheet adjacent a lower edge thereof; and a second sheet of tough flexible material, sized and shaped to cover the toe of shoes in a range of sizes, said second sheet having a narrow strip of releasable fastener material adjacent a straight edge of said second sheet, wherein the narrow strip of fastener material on said second sheet cooperates with the wide strip of fastener material to adjustably secure said second sheet onto said first sheet such the laces, tongue and toe areas of a welder's shoes are covered by said first and second sheets.