Patent Application
20160346619
Field of the Disclosure
The disclosure relates to water shoe devices and more particularly pertains to a new water shoe device for aiding in movement of a person through water.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shoe having an upper. A fin is provided having a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface of the fin is coupled to the upper. The fin extends outwardly from a lower edge of the upper.
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
As best illustrated in
A fin 26 is provided having a top surface 28, a bottom surface 30, and a concavely arcuate edge 32. Outer edges 36, 38 are coupled to and extend in a curve between a forward end 34 and respective ends 62,64 of the concavely arcuate edge 32. The forward end 34 of the fin 26 may be scalloped. Each of the outer edges 36, 38 may be curved between the forward end 34 and the respective end 62,64. The concavely arcuate edge 32 is coupled to the upper 14 such that the bottom surface 30 of the fin 26 is spaced from the lower edge 16 of the upper 14. The fin 26 extends outwardly from the front end 18 and the opposed sides 22,24 of the upper 14. The sole 50 extends below the bottom surface 30 of the fin 26. The forward end 34 of fin 26 has a length greater than a width of the upper 14 wherein opposite ends 66 of the forward end 34 of the fin 26 flare laterally outward relative to the upper 14.
The top surface 28 of the fin 26 has a plurality of top grooves 42 positioned therein extending from the concavely arcuate edge 32 to the forward end 34 of the fin 26. The top grooves 42 may extend radially between the concavely arcuate edge 32 and the forward end 32. Similarly, the bottom surface 30 of the fin 26 has a plurality of bottom grooves 44 positioned therein extending from the concavely arcuate edge 32 to the forward end 34 of the fin 26. The bottom grooves 44 may be curved in shape.
In use, the shoe 12 is positioned on a foot of a wearer 56 in a conventional manner. The fin 26 is much like a conventional swim fin that aids the wearer's 56 movement while in water 58. However, the assembly 10 of the present invention combines the shoe 12 with the fin 26 offset vertically from the exterior surface 52 of the sole 50 to provide the additional benefit of allowing the wearer 56 to walk more easily while wearing the fin 26.
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.
