Patent Application
20160242489
The disclosure relates to shoe devices and more particularly pertains to a new shoe device for relieving podiatric pain.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shoe that may be worn on a foot of a user. A therapeutic unit is positioned within the shoe. The therapeutic unit is comprised of copper such that the therapeutic unit may relieve podiatric pain when the user wears the shoe.
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 therapeutic unit 46 is positioned within the shoe 12. The therapeutic unit 46 is comprised of copper to relieve podiatric pain when the user 16 wears the shoe 12. The therapeutic unit 46 comprises a plurality of upper plates 48 positioned between the outer surface 26 and the inner surface 28 of the upper 20. The upper plates 48 are distributed along the back side 32, the first lateral side 34, the second lateral side 36 and the front side 38 of the upper 20. The upper plates 48 surround the user's foot 14 when the user 16 wears the shoe 12.
The upper plates 48 may include a front upper plate 50, a pair of lateral upper plates 52 and a back upper plate 54. The front upper plate 50, the lateral upper plates 52 and the back upper plate 54 may each have a unique shape with respect to each other. The front upper plate 50 is positioned proximate a toe 56 of the shoe 12. Each of the lateral upper plates 52 is positioned on opposite sides of the upper 20 and each of the lateral upper plates 52 may extend between the toe 56 of the shoe 12 and a quarter 58 of the shoe 12. The back upper plate 54 may be positioned on a heel 60 of the shoe 12.
A tongue plate 62 is positioned between the topmost surface 42 and the bottommost surface 44 of the tongue portion 40. The tongue plate 62 is substantially coextensive with the tongue portion 40, allowing the tongue plate 62 to cover a top 68 of the user's foot 14 when the user 16 wears the shoe 12. A sole plate 70 is positioned between the top side 24 and the bottom side 22 of the sole 18 and the sole plate 70 is substantially coextensive with the sole 18.
The shoe 12 includes a shoe lace 72. The shoe lace 72 is threaded through the upper 20 to extend across the tongue portion 40. The therapeutic unit 46 may include a lace plate 74 positioned within the shoe lace 72 and the lace plate 74 may be substantially coextensive with the shoe lace 72. The copper material of the upper plates 48, the tongue plate 62, the sole plate 72 and the lace plate 74 may be structured such that the upper plates 48, the tongue plate 62, the sole plate 70 and the lace plate 74 are flexible.
In use, the shoe 12 is worn on the user's foot 14 when the user 16 seeks relief from podiatric pain. The user's foot 14 is inserted into the opening 30 in the upper 20.
The shoe lace 72 is tied to retain the shoe 12 on the user's foot 14. The therapeutic unit 46 relieves podiatric pain while the shoe 12 is worn.
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.
