Athletic sports shoe with cleated scaffold that dissociates from the underside of the shoe to reduce/prevent knee injury

Inactive Publication Date: 2021-04-08
KELLEHER MICHAEL +1
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[0011]The present invention relates to a mechanism in a sports shoe that prevents or minimizes injury from rotative or twisting forces. It does this by dissociating

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. . are caused by situations where a foot is pinned to the ground while a person continues forward movements . . . . Normally the event happens so fast that by the time a person wearing the shoe or boot is aware of pain, the damage is done.
Having a rotating platform would not be appealing to the athlete, as it would introduce an unnatural motion of spinning around (seemingly even with normal mo

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[0045]The current invention requires that both a downward force and a rotational force occur about the foot in order for the scaffold component to dissociate from the remainder of shoe at a critical amount of torque. Research studies have shown that ligamentous injury about the knee tends to occur when a rotational force of greater than 20-25 N-m occurs. This invention requires that the two components stay married at forces less than 20-25 N-m, but dissociate at forces greater than 20-25 N-m.

[0046]Given the importance of having light weight athletic cleats, the mechanism of attachment of the scaffold to the remainder of the shoe must be light and sleek. The favored mechanism is industrial strength interlocking hook and file fabric under the tradename VELCRO. In accordance with the present invention the front spikes can dissociate from the remainder of the athletic sports shoe in order to prevent knee injury.

[0047]Turning to the embodiment of FIGS. 1-6, an athletic sports shoe 10 inc...

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Footwear, such as a sports shoe, that has a cleated scaffold that attaches to an underside of a sole of the shoe body of footwear because of an attachment mechanism. The mechanism has cooperative components arranged to engage each other when in alignment to allow the cleated scaffold and shoe body to move in unison and in the absence of a critical pivoting force. When a critical pivoting force arises, such as when the cleats remain fixed in position in a manner that resists their movement in unison with the shoe body, the scaffold dissociates from the shoe body in order to reduce/prevent knee injury.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0001]The present invention relates to any shoe (for example, an athletic cleat) that is composed of two separate components that can detach from one another in order to reduce / prevent knee injury to the wearer.Discussion of Related Art[0002]U.S. Pat. No. 9,273,827 mentions:[0003]Many injuries . . . are caused by situations where a foot is pinned to the ground while a person continues forward movements . . . . Normally the event happens so fast that by the time a person wearing the shoe or boot is aware of pain, the damage is done.[0004]U.S. Pat. No. 9,273,827 goes on to describe a counterforce technique. The present inventors contend that from the standpoint of a musculoskeletal radiologist, the use of the counterforce technique in U.S. Pat. No. 9,273,827 would actually result in increased injuries based on biomechanics. Instead of pursuing such a technique based on a counter force, it seems preferable to the present inventors to all...

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IPC IPC(8): A43C15/16A43B5/02A43B13/36A43B13/26A43B1/00A43B13/18
CPCA43C15/161A43B5/02A43B13/36A43B13/183A43B1/0054A43B1/0081A43B13/26A43C13/12
Inventor KELLEHER, MICHAELBRANSON, BRITTANYMELVILLE, JR., DOUGLAS F.WANCZYK, JOHN
Owner KELLEHER MICHAEL
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