CA1097063A - Skate boot with hidden buckle - Google Patents
Skate boot with hidden buckleInfo
- Publication number
- CA1097063A CA1097063A CA334,878A CA334878A CA1097063A CA 1097063 A CA1097063 A CA 1097063A CA 334878 A CA334878 A CA 334878A CA 1097063 A CA1097063 A CA 1097063A
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- Prior art keywords
- tongue
- boot
- vamp
- loop
- opening
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B5/00—Footwear for sporting purposes
- A43B5/16—Skating boots
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43C—FASTENINGS OR ATTACHMENTS OF FOOTWEAR; LACES IN GENERAL
- A43C11/00—Other fastenings specially adapted for shoes
- A43C11/14—Clamp fastenings, e.g. strap fastenings; Clamp-buckle fastenings; Fastenings with toggle levers
- A43C11/1406—Fastenings with toggle levers; Equipment therefor
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- General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
- Physical Education & Sports Medicine (AREA)
- Footwear And Its Accessory, Manufacturing Method And Apparatuses (AREA)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
An injection moulded plastics material skate boot having a hidden closure and in which a relatively rigid tongue of the outer boot is pivotally connected to the front of the boot at a point slightly removed from the lower end. A loop is mounted on and adjacent to the lower end of the tongue, and can be releasably engaged with posts located on each side of the boot vamp. When the tongue is snapped down into the closed position the loop tightens around the posts and draws the sides of the boot together. The tongue is held in the closed position by means of a buckle or by speed lacing at the top of the boot.
The tightness of the boot can be controlled by adjusting the distance between the loop and its point of attachment to the tongue.
An injection moulded plastics material skate boot having a hidden closure and in which a relatively rigid tongue of the outer boot is pivotally connected to the front of the boot at a point slightly removed from the lower end. A loop is mounted on and adjacent to the lower end of the tongue, and can be releasably engaged with posts located on each side of the boot vamp. When the tongue is snapped down into the closed position the loop tightens around the posts and draws the sides of the boot together. The tongue is held in the closed position by means of a buckle or by speed lacing at the top of the boot.
The tightness of the boot can be controlled by adjusting the distance between the loop and its point of attachment to the tongue.
Description
~097063 This invention relates to skate boots, and more particularly to a novel means to close a s~ate boot.
Skating, either ice skating or roller skating, is an athletic activity requiring specialized footwear having characteristics unlike those required in other sporting foot-wear. Skating requires a boot which is not only relatively rigid so as to provide adequate ankle support but which is sufficiently flexible to provide at least limited longitudinal and lateral movement of the skater's ankle. Skating is essentially an activity involving ankle movement, in contrast to such activities as skiing which is essentially an activity involving knee movements and substantially no ankle movement.
Because of the distinct differences in movements required, ski boots and skate boots are quite distinct in concept and construction though there are certain points of similarity, notably the material of construction.
In recent years manufacturers of sports boots, such as ski boots and skate boots, have transferred their attention away from the traditional leather materials for footwear, toward modern man-made materials, notably thermoplastic materials.
Such materials can be formulated to provide the exact amount of flexibility and stiffness required, they are waterproof and an outer shell can be injection moulded to the exact shape required.
An inner lining of soft resilient foot-shape conforming material can be provided thereby eliminating a considerable amount of the hand labour required to fabricate a well fitting and comfortable leather boot. The new, relatively rigid, outer shell inherently provides most of the required support but minor adjustments are still required and some way Or closing th ~
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109'7V63 boot once the foot is inside must still be provided. Hereto-fore, skate boots have been provided with a plurality of eye-lets on each side of the opening in the upper surface of the vamp and the opening has been laced shut, the tightness of the lacing providing the required final adjustment. Lacing is, however, inconvenient, time consuming and requires consid-erable skill and effort to obtain a uniform and comfortable effect. Children, in particular, are frequently incapable of adequately lacing a skate boot with attendent frustrations, for their parents who have to do the lacing, and for themselves when improperly tensioned laces contribute to poor skating.
Ski boot manufacturers have largely overcome the lacing problem by providing one or more adjustable side buckles which can be snapped open and shut, but such protruding buckles are consider-ed too hazardous for use with ice skates and the like.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a boot having a novel form of closure which is particularly suitable for use with plastics material moulded skate boots and - the like, which eliminates the need for either laces or side buckles and in which the closing device is completely hidden.
Thus, by one aspect of this invention there is provided an injection moulded plastics material boot for skating or the lïke, haviny an opening ~n the vamp thereof and including:
(a) elongated relatively stiff tongue means having an upper and lower end and pivotally mounted, at a first position intermediate said upper and lower ends, on the vamp, for move-ment between an open position exposing said vamp opening and a closed position in which the tongue overlies the vamp opening;
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~097063 (b) post means on each side of said vamp opening;
(c) loop means mounted on said tongue means at a second position between said intermediate position and the lower end of said tongue means, for releasable engagement with said post means when said tongue is in said open position so as to effect at least partial closure of the vamp opening as said tongue is moved to said closed position; and (d) means adjacent the upper end of said tongue to releasably secure said tongue in said closed position.
The invention will be described in more detail here-inafter with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-Figure 1 is an isometric view of a skate boot incorporating the closure of the present invention;
Figure 2 is an enlarged view of part of the boot of Figure 1, showing the closure in the raised or open position;
and Figure 3 is a front view of a boot of the present invention with the tongue removed and showing the closure posts on each side of the vamp.
Turning firstly to Figure 1, there is illustrated a relatively rigid plastics material injection moulded skate boot shell 1, provided with a relatively rigid tongue 2, and a tongue securing means 3. The tongue 2, which is pivotally attached to a spacer piece 4, acts as a lever arm in a manner to be described in more detail hereinafter. The spacer piece 4 is ; in turn pivotally attached to boot 1 at a raised projection 5 thereon. Spacer piece 4 is pivotally attached to tongue 2 at a point 6 intermediate the ends thereof. A flexible, but relatively inextensible loop 7 of wire or the like is slidably mounted on a rod 8 the outward end 9 of which is pivotally attached adjacent the end of the tongue 2. A knurled nut 10 is provided on a threaded portion 11 of rod 8 to provide length adjustment for loop 7, as described in more detail hereinafter.
On each side of the vamp 12 adjacent the longitudinal opening 13 therein, there is provided a post 14,15 having a groove 16 or other loop retaining means around the peripheral edge thereof. Posts 14 and 15 are conveniently, but not essentially, integrally moulded with the vamp 12. With the 10 tongue 2 in the raised position as shown in Figure 2, the loop 7 may be placed over posts 14,15 and engaged in groove 16 therein. Upon closing the tongue, in the direction of the arrow 20, the forward and lower end 18 of tongue 2 moves for-wardly carrying with it pivotally attached rod 8, thus causing loop 7 to tighten around posts 14,15 and force them inwardly, thus at least partially closing opening 13 and tightening the boot around the wearer's foot. It will, of course, be appreciated that the degree of tightening may be adjusted by varying the distance of the loop 7 from pivot point 9 by adjusting knurled nut 10 on rod 8. When fully closed, the spacer 4 and tongue 2 are in abutting overlying relationship to the vamp 12 as shown in Figure 1. In order to secure tongue
Skating, either ice skating or roller skating, is an athletic activity requiring specialized footwear having characteristics unlike those required in other sporting foot-wear. Skating requires a boot which is not only relatively rigid so as to provide adequate ankle support but which is sufficiently flexible to provide at least limited longitudinal and lateral movement of the skater's ankle. Skating is essentially an activity involving ankle movement, in contrast to such activities as skiing which is essentially an activity involving knee movements and substantially no ankle movement.
Because of the distinct differences in movements required, ski boots and skate boots are quite distinct in concept and construction though there are certain points of similarity, notably the material of construction.
In recent years manufacturers of sports boots, such as ski boots and skate boots, have transferred their attention away from the traditional leather materials for footwear, toward modern man-made materials, notably thermoplastic materials.
Such materials can be formulated to provide the exact amount of flexibility and stiffness required, they are waterproof and an outer shell can be injection moulded to the exact shape required.
An inner lining of soft resilient foot-shape conforming material can be provided thereby eliminating a considerable amount of the hand labour required to fabricate a well fitting and comfortable leather boot. The new, relatively rigid, outer shell inherently provides most of the required support but minor adjustments are still required and some way Or closing th ~
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109'7V63 boot once the foot is inside must still be provided. Hereto-fore, skate boots have been provided with a plurality of eye-lets on each side of the opening in the upper surface of the vamp and the opening has been laced shut, the tightness of the lacing providing the required final adjustment. Lacing is, however, inconvenient, time consuming and requires consid-erable skill and effort to obtain a uniform and comfortable effect. Children, in particular, are frequently incapable of adequately lacing a skate boot with attendent frustrations, for their parents who have to do the lacing, and for themselves when improperly tensioned laces contribute to poor skating.
Ski boot manufacturers have largely overcome the lacing problem by providing one or more adjustable side buckles which can be snapped open and shut, but such protruding buckles are consider-ed too hazardous for use with ice skates and the like.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a boot having a novel form of closure which is particularly suitable for use with plastics material moulded skate boots and - the like, which eliminates the need for either laces or side buckles and in which the closing device is completely hidden.
Thus, by one aspect of this invention there is provided an injection moulded plastics material boot for skating or the lïke, haviny an opening ~n the vamp thereof and including:
(a) elongated relatively stiff tongue means having an upper and lower end and pivotally mounted, at a first position intermediate said upper and lower ends, on the vamp, for move-ment between an open position exposing said vamp opening and a closed position in which the tongue overlies the vamp opening;
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~097063 (b) post means on each side of said vamp opening;
(c) loop means mounted on said tongue means at a second position between said intermediate position and the lower end of said tongue means, for releasable engagement with said post means when said tongue is in said open position so as to effect at least partial closure of the vamp opening as said tongue is moved to said closed position; and (d) means adjacent the upper end of said tongue to releasably secure said tongue in said closed position.
The invention will be described in more detail here-inafter with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-Figure 1 is an isometric view of a skate boot incorporating the closure of the present invention;
Figure 2 is an enlarged view of part of the boot of Figure 1, showing the closure in the raised or open position;
and Figure 3 is a front view of a boot of the present invention with the tongue removed and showing the closure posts on each side of the vamp.
Turning firstly to Figure 1, there is illustrated a relatively rigid plastics material injection moulded skate boot shell 1, provided with a relatively rigid tongue 2, and a tongue securing means 3. The tongue 2, which is pivotally attached to a spacer piece 4, acts as a lever arm in a manner to be described in more detail hereinafter. The spacer piece 4 is ; in turn pivotally attached to boot 1 at a raised projection 5 thereon. Spacer piece 4 is pivotally attached to tongue 2 at a point 6 intermediate the ends thereof. A flexible, but relatively inextensible loop 7 of wire or the like is slidably mounted on a rod 8 the outward end 9 of which is pivotally attached adjacent the end of the tongue 2. A knurled nut 10 is provided on a threaded portion 11 of rod 8 to provide length adjustment for loop 7, as described in more detail hereinafter.
On each side of the vamp 12 adjacent the longitudinal opening 13 therein, there is provided a post 14,15 having a groove 16 or other loop retaining means around the peripheral edge thereof. Posts 14 and 15 are conveniently, but not essentially, integrally moulded with the vamp 12. With the 10 tongue 2 in the raised position as shown in Figure 2, the loop 7 may be placed over posts 14,15 and engaged in groove 16 therein. Upon closing the tongue, in the direction of the arrow 20, the forward and lower end 18 of tongue 2 moves for-wardly carrying with it pivotally attached rod 8, thus causing loop 7 to tighten around posts 14,15 and force them inwardly, thus at least partially closing opening 13 and tightening the boot around the wearer's foot. It will, of course, be appreciated that the degree of tightening may be adjusted by varying the distance of the loop 7 from pivot point 9 by adjusting knurled nut 10 on rod 8. When fully closed, the spacer 4 and tongue 2 are in abutting overlying relationship to the vamp 12 as shown in Figure 1. In order to secure tongue
2 in the closed position shown in Figure 1, securing means 3 is closed around tke ankle. Securing means 3 i9 conveniently ;~ a strap and buckle arrangement, with either an external or internal buckle, or a lacing arrangement such as the speed ; lacing arrangement, as shown in Figure 1, in which the sides 17, 1:8 of the boot upper are provided with speed lacing posts 19 around which a lace (not shown) may be engaged when the tongue .
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lV97063 2 has been moved to the closed position shown in Figure 1.
It will be appreciated that although thermoplastic ma-terials are generally employed for boots of the present invention, it is possible to injection mould thermosetting plastic materials, and such materials are to be considered within the scope of the present invention.
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lV97063 2 has been moved to the closed position shown in Figure 1.
It will be appreciated that although thermoplastic ma-terials are generally employed for boots of the present invention, it is possible to injection mould thermosetting plastic materials, and such materials are to be considered within the scope of the present invention.
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Claims (8)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. An injection moulded plastics material boot for skating or the like, having an opening in the vamp thereof and including:
(a) elongated relatively stiff tongue means having an upper and lower end and pivotally mounted, at a first position intermediate said upper and lower ends, on the vamp, for move-ment between an open position exposing said vamp opening and a closed position in which the tongue overlies the vamp opening;
(b) post means of each side of said vamp opening;
(c) loop means mounted on said tongue means at a second position between said intermediate position and the lower end of said tongue means, for releasable engagement with said post means when said tongue is in said open position so as to effect at least partial closure of the vamp opening as said tongue is moved to said closed position; and (d) means adjacent the upper end of said tongue to releasably secure said tongue in said closed position.
(a) elongated relatively stiff tongue means having an upper and lower end and pivotally mounted, at a first position intermediate said upper and lower ends, on the vamp, for move-ment between an open position exposing said vamp opening and a closed position in which the tongue overlies the vamp opening;
(b) post means of each side of said vamp opening;
(c) loop means mounted on said tongue means at a second position between said intermediate position and the lower end of said tongue means, for releasable engagement with said post means when said tongue is in said open position so as to effect at least partial closure of the vamp opening as said tongue is moved to said closed position; and (d) means adjacent the upper end of said tongue to releasably secure said tongue in said closed position.
2. A boot as claimed in claim 1 including means to pivotally mount said loop means on said tongue.
3. A boot as claimed in claim 2 wherein said mounting means includes adjusting means to vary the distance between said loop means and said second position.
4. A boot as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 including spacer means pivotally connected to said tongue means at said first position and to said vamp, so as to provide pivotal inter-connection between said boot and said tongue.
5. A boot as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said post means include peripheral groove means to receive said loop means.
6. A boot as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said securing means comprises buckle means.
7. A boot as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said securing means comprises speed lacing means.
8. A boot as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said plastics material is a thermoplastic material.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| CA334,878A CA1097063A (en) | 1979-08-31 | 1979-08-31 | Skate boot with hidden buckle |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| CA334,878A CA1097063A (en) | 1979-08-31 | 1979-08-31 | Skate boot with hidden buckle |
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| CA1097063A true CA1097063A (en) | 1981-03-10 |
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| CA334,878A Expired CA1097063A (en) | 1979-08-31 | 1979-08-31 | Skate boot with hidden buckle |
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Cited By (4)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP0117372A1 (en) * | 1983-01-28 | 1984-09-05 | Warrington Inc. | Composite skate boot, and method of shaping it |
| US4571855A (en) * | 1982-11-24 | 1986-02-25 | Salomon S.A. | Integrated closure system for a ski boot |
| EP0686359A1 (en) * | 1994-06-09 | 1995-12-13 | ROCES S.r.l. | Sports shoe with improved safety |
| WO1996024266A1 (en) * | 1995-02-06 | 1996-08-15 | Rudolf Linner | Ice-skate boot or roller-skate boot for ice or roller hockey |
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- 1979-08-31 CA CA334,878A patent/CA1097063A/en not_active Expired
Cited By (4)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4571855A (en) * | 1982-11-24 | 1986-02-25 | Salomon S.A. | Integrated closure system for a ski boot |
| EP0117372A1 (en) * | 1983-01-28 | 1984-09-05 | Warrington Inc. | Composite skate boot, and method of shaping it |
| EP0686359A1 (en) * | 1994-06-09 | 1995-12-13 | ROCES S.r.l. | Sports shoe with improved safety |
| WO1996024266A1 (en) * | 1995-02-06 | 1996-08-15 | Rudolf Linner | Ice-skate boot or roller-skate boot for ice or roller hockey |
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