Sports shoe, in particular ski shoe and tightening means therefore

Abstract

The invention relates to a sports shoe (1) with an outer shell (2) made of injection moulded plastic, in particular a ski shoe with at least one tightening means (12) arranged in the upper end section of the shoe collar (5) running ring-like around the upper end section of the shoe collar (5), and with at least one adjusting means (13) for tightening or limiting the width of the entry opening into the sports shoe (1) as necessary. For this a first and a further tightening element (15, 16) are arranged above one another in vertical direction within a section of the length of the tightening means (12), where the tightening elements (15, 16) run essentially parallel to one another. The first tightening element (15) is designed to bear against the peripheral sections of the comparatively flexible inner shoe (3) or its tongue (17) and the further tightening element (16) is designed to bear against the upper end section of the shoe collar (5) made of a relatively rigid plastic. In this way pressure points can be avoided or reduced on the leg of the user and the level of comfort when using the sports shoe (1) can be increased.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] Applicants claim priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of AUSTRIAN Patent Application No. A 334 / 2006 filed on Feb. 28, 2006. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The invention relates to a sports shoe, comprising an outer shell made from a relatively rigid plastic, an inner shoe mounted at least partly therein, which is comparatively flexible, and an annular tightening means for the shoe collar, as described in claims 1 and 26. [0004] 2. Prior Art [0005] A generic sports shoe, in particular a ski shoe with an annular tightening means for the shoe collar is known for example from U.S. Pat. No. 6,026,594 A. Said tightening means for limiting the width or tightening the upper end section of the shoe collar consists in this case of several, in particular three strap elements arranged in a row and connected or connectable at their ends in a chain-like manner. The central or middle strap element of the tightening means...

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Benefits of technology

[0008] The underlying objective of the invention is to create a sports shoe comprising a flexible elastic inner shoe and comparatively hard outer shell, which provides an increased level of comfort with respect to wear and use, and because the level of comfort is greater over a long period local pressure points on the leg, in particular on the shin of the user, can be prevented.

[0010] By means of the specifically allocated tightening elements according to claim 2 the tightening effect of the latter on the upper end section of the sports shoe can be made optimum use of and the respective requirements or the existing, structure of the sports shoe can be taken into account more effectively.

Problems solved by technology

By means of this known design of tightening means with an elastic strap section any unwanted loosening of the shoe collar can be counteracted during the progressive use of the sports shoe, but the wearing comfort of the ski shoe is not improved in this way.

However, this known design is not wholly satisfactory

These measures only produce partly satisfactory results however, and the individual foaming or fitting procedures are labour intensive, in particular time consuming and expensive.

With respect to the structure of the inner shoe these measures increase the production costs of the sports shoe and such preventative measures cannot be adjusted to individual needs or the diverse foot shapes of different users.

Moreover, these types of inner shoe cannot be altered afterwards.

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