Patent Application
20210274886
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This invention relates generally to foot cushions, shoe inner soles, shoe inserts and orthotics. Use of the invention is to provide relief for the user's foot where there is an injured area to the bottom of the foot.
There is no immediate solution to provide protection for a user's damaged foot (bottom of the foot area) to be completely free from impact or shock when a user places his or her foot in a shoe or boot. Existing foot relief products use gel, rubber layers, soft materials, and other types of materials to provide comfort to a user's damaged foot (i.e., plantar fasciitis). However, when any of these prior products are used the damaged area of the foot still makes contact with a surface creating some type of shock at impact and a degree of some discomfort or pain for the user.
Accordingly, the present invention overcomes these disadvantages associated with the prior art by removing sections of the device correlating to where the foot is damaged thereby creating a hollow indentation, dip, concavity, groove, or impression area allowing the injured area to be free from impact of any sort while going through its healing process while the user continues daily activities without feeling discomfort or pain from the injured area of the foot.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the prior art, the present invention provides a foot pain relief device formed as a shoe or boot insert comprising a plurality of removable pieces designed to be selectively removed from the insert to thereby create a hollow portion, indentation, dip, concavity, groove, or impression area of the insert that allows the injured area to be free from impact of any sort while going through its healing process while the user continues daily activities without feeling discomfort or pain from the injured area of the foot.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention 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.
Numerous objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon a reading of the following detailed description of presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative, embodiments of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of descriptions and should not be regarded as limiting.
The figures which accompany the written portion of this specification illustrate embodiments according to the teachings of the present invention.
The various embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings.
The embodiments of the present disclosure described below are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure to the precise forms disclosed in the following detailed description. Rather, the embodiments are chosen and described so that others skilled in the art may appreciate and understand the principles and practices of the present disclosure.
The following embodiments and the accompanying drawings, which are incorporated into and form part of this disclosure, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the invention are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the invention can be employed and the subject invention is intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
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In the preferred embodiment, the top surface of the bottom layer 200 includes a plurality of spaced protrusions 207 thereon; wherein the bottom surface of the top layer 300 includes a plurality of spaced protrusions 307 thereon; and wherein the plurality of spaced protrusions of the bottom layer are adapted top interdigitate with the plurality of spaced protrusions of the top layer to thereby prevent movement between the top layer and the bottom layer. And, wherein the plurality of spaced protrusions of the bottom layer and the plurality of spaced protrusions of the top layer can be formed having a shape resembling a cone, a tube, a hemi-spherical bump, or a cube.
Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement, which is calculated to achieve the same purpose, may be substituted for the specific embodiment shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the present invention.
Although the invention has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
