Patent Application
20200008531
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The disclosure and prior art relates to safety boots and more particularly pertains to a new safety boot for comfortably protecting all five toes.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a boot having a toe, a heel, a top, a bottom, an instep side, an outstep side, and a foot cavity extending between the toe, the heel, the top, the bottom, the instep side, and the outstep side. The top of the boot has an ankle aperture extending through to the foot cavity. A layered sole is disposed on the bottom of the boot. A toe cap disposed within the toe of the boot has a front portion, a medial portion, and a lateral portion. The medial portion extends a first length from the front portion to cover a hallux of a wearer. The lateral portion extends a second length from the front portion to cover a fifth phalange of the wearer. The first length is less than the second length.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A cap liner 28 is removably disposed on an interior surface 30 of the toe cap. The cap liner 28 continuously extends from the front portion 14 to beyond a rear edge 32 of the toe cap and from the medial portion 16 to the lateral portion 18 in order to ensure that the wearer's phalanges do not come into direct contact with the toe cap 12. The layered sole 34 comprises an insole 38, a midsole 40, and an outsole 42. The insole and the midsole each have a thick portion 44 adjacent the heel 46 of the boot and a tapered portion 48 extending from the thick portion to the toe 50 of the boot. A plurality of X-shaped protrusions 52 is distributed across an underside 54 of the outsole 42. The outsole may be an oil-resistant material. An ankle cushion 56 is continuously disposed on a perimeter 58 of the ankle aperture 19 to provide added comfort and flexibility around the wearer's ankle. A logo crest 60 may be attached to an outer rear panel 62 of the boot.
In use, the wearer has all five toes of each foot comfortably protected within the toe cap 12. The insole 38 provides cushion for the wearer's foot while the midsole 40 provides durability and impact absorption for standing, walking, and hiking. The plurality of X-shaped protrusions 52 creates longitudinal and lateral traction to prevent the wearer from slipping. The ankle cushion 56 provides support and comfort to the wearer's ankle when moving.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
