Shoes take a large amount of space in luggage, are inconveniently shaped for fitting with other items, and can be dirty. They can be individually bagged, but this does not protect the shoes from flattening, or protect other clothes from being crumpled by the shoes. Some carrying bags have movable partitions that can be configured to accommodate shoes, but at the expense of space in other partitions. Such movable partitions with hook and loop fasteners such as Velcro® are not stable enough to securely retain shoes against jostling of the bag.
Shoes are important to athletes as performance-optimizing sports apparel, and also as status symbols in sports and fashion. Sports shoes are customized specifically for the type of sport, the type of court surface, and to individual preferences. Therefore people often want to take multiple pairs of shoes with them on travel or to local events such as sports practice or competition.
The bag may be made in a hard shell form (not shown) or in a fabric form as shown. The fabric form may include an internal frame such as a semi-rigid plastic frame that provides enough rigidity to hold the bag upright as shown in
When the front 2 and back 3 sections are open as in
While various embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described herein, such embodiments are provided by way of example only. Variations, changes and substitutions may be made without departing from the invention herein. Accordingly, it is intended that the invention be limited only by the scope of the claims.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application 62/569,006, filed Oct. 6, 2017, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The invention relates to shoe carrying bags.
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