U.S. patent application number 11/572212 was filed with the patent office on 2007-09-13 for automatic tying and loosing shoes.
Invention is credited to Lung-Chiao Chou.
Application Number | 20070209234 11/572212 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 35784871 |
Filed Date | 2007-09-13 |
United States Patent
Application |
20070209234 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Chou; Lung-Chiao |
September 13, 2007 |
AUTOMATIC TYING AND LOOSING SHOES
Abstract
The present invention provides an automatic fastening and
loosing shoes, which is typically comprised of a shoe body
including tongue portion, upper portions and shoe-sole, in which
mouthing portions are built on the interfaces of the tongue portion
and the upper, said shoe-sole includes an outsole, a middle sole
and a bottom filler; said bottom filler is fastened on the middle
sole with the front portion so that the middle and heel portions
can took off from the middle sole; an action regulating mechanism
includes a flutter foil, a pair of guide plates and two inserting
strips; said flutter foil is connected to the both sides of the
tongue with the both upper ends respectively, cooperating to the
guide assembly combined by the guide plates and the inserting
strips pre-setting in upper-low position, and connected to the
bottom filler at the rear portion with the another end, thereby
towing the tongue can bring to the heel portion of the bottom
filler simultaneously and relatively moving relative to the outsole
cooperating to the attempting action; a control mechanism is
consisted of a switch, a hook plate, a stationary guide and a snap
frame, said hook plate and said stationary guide are attached on
the heel portion of the bottom filler for locking on said snap
frame located on the middle sole cooperating to put-on attempting
action, and the lock of the hook and the snap frame is released by
the switch mounted on the rear end of the shoe-body for carrying
out automatic put-off function. The structure has less components
and simple features without tying and loosing lace, so that the
action of the structure can be carried out smoothly and surely,
with low rejection rate and low production cost.
Inventors: |
Chou; Lung-Chiao; (Taipei,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BANGER SHIA
204 CANYON CREEK
VICTORIA
TX
77901-3695
US
|
Family ID: |
35784871 |
Appl. No.: |
11/572212 |
Filed: |
July 11, 2005 |
PCT Filed: |
July 11, 2005 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/CN05/01011 |
371 Date: |
January 17, 2007 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
36/50.1 ;
36/138 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A43C 11/00 20130101;
A43B 11/00 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
036/050.1 ;
036/138 |
International
Class: |
A43C 11/00 20060101
A43C011/00; A43B 11/00 20060101 A43B011/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jul 20, 2004 |
CN |
200420071917.2 |
Oct 27, 2004 |
CN |
200420094570.3 |
Claims
1. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes typically comprised of
a shoe body, an action regulating mechanism and a control
mechanism, wherein: Said shoe-body is constructed of tongue
portion, upper portions and shoe-sole; a pair of mouthing portions
are formed between the tongue portion and the upper portions
respectively at the both sides of tongue; said tongue portion is a
tongue; said shoe-sole includes an outsole, a middle sole and a
bottom filler; said bottom filler is fastened on the middle sole
with the front portion so that the middle and heel portions can
took off from the middle sole; said action regulating mechanism is
a U-shaped flutter foil with a pair of fins at the both sides, and
is connected to the both sides of the tongue with the both extended
top edges of fins respectively, and connected to the bottom filler
at the rear portion with the bottom flat side fixedly for towing
the tongue and heel portion of the bottom filler simultaneously and
relatively moving to the outsole cooperating to the attempting
action; said control mechanism is consisted of a switch, a hook
plate, a stationary guide and a snap frame, said hook plate and
said stationary guide are attached on the heel portion of the
bottom filler for locking on said snap frame located on the middle
sole cooperating to put-on attempting action, and the lock of the
hook and the snap frame is released by the switch mounted on the
rear end of the shoe-body for carrying out automatic put-off
function.
2. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said thick outsole of the shoe-sole is opened a guide slot
and a pitting communicated each other at the back end; said middle
sole located on the thick outsole is drilled a through-hole at the
back end and two guide holes.
3. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said mouthing portions are opened on the upper, and any
place between the upper and the decorative lace to form said
tongue.
4. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said flutter foil has a flat bottom portion and two
corresponded opposite drawing fins, said drawing fin has a guide
fin with parallel guide grooves formed at the outside.
5. an automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said action regulating mechanism is also comprised of a
guide plates and a inserting strips, said guide plate is located on
the action space sandwiched between the upper and the outside of
the drawing fin of the flutter foil, and has a set of blocking
faces coordinating to the guide grooves of the guide fin, and a set
of guide holes formed between two adjacent blocking faces of the
guide plate for cooperating to the guide grooves of the guide fin
to supply a way for the inserting strip interweaving through to
construct a guide moving up-downward.
6. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said drawing fin of the flutter foil is attached with a
fixing portion at the extended free end for fixing on the tongue
together.
7. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said control mechanism includes a switch located on the
rear end of the shoe-body extending a pushing bar forward the guide
slot of the outsole, a hook plate extending at least one hook
downward and a stopper at front of the hook downward too, and
plural of catching through-holes formed on the plate; a snap frame
being a plate is located on the middle sole, and has at least one
through-hole formed on the surface for passing through the hook and
corresponding to the guide holes overlapping, meanwhile a
through-hole formed on for passing through said stopper; a
stationary guide has a close flange formed upward along the round
edge surrounding a space for installing said hook plate, and a
long-slot formed on middle portion of the plate, said stationary
guide assembled with said hook plate is mounted on the bottom side
of the heel portion of the bottom filler, so that the hooks and the
stopper extend out downward from the long-slot, and the hook plate
can move front-backward in the space between the stationary guide
and the bottom filler.
8. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 7,
wherein said hook plate has plurals of long-holes formed on the
both sides of hooks respectively, meanwhile at least one long
catching through-hole is attached with a restoring spring,
coordinating to catching long-through-holes, said stationary guide
has plurals of pins projected upward for standing in the inside of
the long-through-hole so that at least one pin touches against the
end of the restoring spring located at in the inside of the
long-through-hole for generating automatic restoring power pushing
the hook plate back.
9. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 7,
wherein said the hook has an ace bottom end.
10. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the surface of the tongue of said tongue portion also
includes a decorative lace for adjusting the tightness of the
tongue.
11. An automatic tying and lowing shoes is typically comprised of a
shoe body, an action regulating mechanism and a control mechanism;
wherein said shoe-body is constructed of tongue portion, upper
portions and shoe-sole; a pair of mouthing portions are formed
between the tongue portion and the upper portions respectively at
the both sides of tongue; said tongue portion is a tongue; said
shoe-sole includes a thin outsole, a middle sole and a bottom
filler; said bottom filler is fastened on the middle sole with the
front portion so that the middle and heel portions can took off
from the middle sole; said action regulating mechanism is a
U-shaped flutter foil with a pair of fins at the both sides, and is
connected to the both sides of the tongue with the both extended
top edges of fins respectively, and connected to the bottom filler
at the rear portion with the bottom flat side fixedly for towing
the tongue and heel portion of the bottom filler simultaneously and
relatively moving to the outsole cooperating to the attempting
action; said control mechanism is consisted of a switch, a hook
plate, a stationary guide and a snap frame, said hook plate and
said stationary guide are attached on the heel portion of the
bottom filler for locking on said snap frame located on the middle
sole cooperating to put-on attempting action, and the lock of the
hook and the snap frame is released by the switch mounted on the
rear end of the shoe-body for carrying out automatic put-off
function.
12. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim
11, wherein said thin outsole of the shoe-sole is opened a guide
slot and a pitting communicated each other at the back end; said
middle sole located on the thin outsole is drilled two guide holes
at the back end.
13. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim
11, wherein said control mechanism includes a switch located on the
rear end of the shoe-body extending a pushing bar forward the guide
slot of the outsole; a hook plate including an level plate that
extends crossly hooks downward, and two rows of plural of
long-holes separately built upon the plate at the both sides of the
hook row, meanwhile at least one long-hole attached with a
restoring spring; a torsional spring attached on below the hook
plate and front of the stopper in pivot joint, in which one leg of
said torsional spring touches against the bottom side of the hook
plate tightly, another leg in open state backs up a check-board,
one end of said check-board is inserted into the space between the
front lug and rear lug built upon top surface of the middle sole; a
snap frame being a plate is located on the middle sole, and has at
least one through-hole formed on the surface for passing through
the hook and corresponding to the guide hole of said middle sole; a
stationary guide has a close flange formed upward along the round
edge surrounding a space for installing said hook plate, and a
long-slot formed on middle portion of the plate portion, and two
rows of plural of raised pins separately built upon the both sides
of the long-slot for stretching into the long-holes of the hook
plate separately, said raised pins are pushed by at least one
restoring spring located at inside of the long-slot to form the
power of pushing the hook plate moving to original state; said
stationary guide assembled with said hook plate is mounted on the
bottom side of the heel portion of the bottom filler, so that the
hooks and the stopper extend out downward from the long-slot, and
the hook plate can move front-backward in the space surrounded by
the stationary guide and the bottom filler.
14. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim
12, wherein said front and rear lugs using to stand up for the
check-board are built upon the middle sole, and fixed on the top
surface of the snap frame.
15. An automatic fastening and loosing shoes as claimed in claim
11, wherein said hook plate can be assembled with said stationary
guide further to be mounted on the shoe-sole, coordinating to the
stationary guide the catching snap frame is located on the bottom
filler.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to the shoes technology field,
and more particularly to an automatic tying and loosing shoes.
[0003] 2. Description of Prior Art
[0004] Shoe is an indispensable product for protecting and
decorating human feet in the modern life. For meeting the
requirements of comfort and convenience, the manufactures continue
to put out new products into the market not only for keeping up the
fashion, but also improving the serviceability to meet a variety of
necessary functions for customers.
[0005] In regard of the convenience in putting on or off, the shoes
are transformed from the conventional tie shoes to the
semi-automatic shoes locating an elastic bond on the mouthing
portion between the tongue and the upper of shoe, or the casual and
buckle shoes and so on by the manufactures, releasing from manual
tying shoes. But in the structures replacing of the conventional
tie-lace shoes, such as elastic bond shoes has to be exerted extra
force to against the elastic force as putting off, and as putting
on has to take the advantage of the finger or the shoehorn propping
up the shoe, of course, riding off the tying force coming from the
elastic bond as putting off the shoes is quite strenuous, and as
continuously use the elasticity will be getting to loose; and as
putting on or off the casual and buckle shoes, the operation has to
need the hand to draw up or split off the binding portion in the
same way as above-mentioned, in another word, the shoes can not be
put on or off automatically cooperating to the attempting
action.
[0006] Therefore, the inventor developed an automatically tying or
loosing shoes cooperating with attempting action, such as Taiwan,
China patent publication number: 355132, and utility model number:
439425 and so on before, in which, by means of the attempting
action, the shoelace is automatically drew to tie up or loose off
cooperating to the attached control apparatuses in the sole, but
because the lace stretching to the bottom below the bottom filler
to get the control apparatuses embedded into the interlayer of the
sole through the vamp, the course of lace is so long that the
components need to equip more for adjusting the retraction
distance, and in the shoes manufacturing industrial, the process of
fastening the middle heel to the outsole has been certain
difficult, the quality of process is directly to affect the quality
of goods, additionally the restraint action of the lace between the
sole and vamp, the process of fastening the middle heel to the
outsole becomes more difficulty, and can not operate with machines
in industrial scale production, so the procedure has to be operated
with manual specially, so as to improve the production cost; and,
the control apparatuses is apt to break down so that the fastening
or loosing functions are not sure, further to course the
inconvenience in use.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] It is therefore a main object of the present invention to
provide an automatic tying and loosing shoes without hand tying
lace any more.
[0008] For archiving the object, an automatic tying and lowing
shoes provided by the present invention is typically comprised of a
shoe body, an action regulating mechanism and a control mechanism;
wherein said shoe-body is constructed of tongue portion, upper
portions and shoe-sole; a pair of mouthing portions are formed
between the tongue portion and the upper portions respectively at
the both sides of tongue; said tongue portion is a tongue; said
shoe-sole includes an outsole, a middle sole and a bottom filler;
said bottom filler is fastened on the middle sole with the front
portion so that the middle and heel portions can took off from the
middle sole; said action regulating mechanism is a U-shaped flutter
foil with a pair of fins at the both sides, and is connected to the
both sides of the tongue with the both extended top edges of fins
respectively, and connected to the bottom filler at the rear
portion with the bottom flat side fixedly for towing the tongue and
heel portion of the bottom filler simultaneously and relatively
moving to the outsole cooperating to the attempting action; said
control mechanism is consisted of a switch, a hook plate, a
stationary guide and a snap frame, said hook plate and said
stationary guide are attached on the heel portion of the bottom
filler for locking on said snap frame located on the middle sole
cooperating to put-on attempting action, and the lock of the hook
and the snap frame is released by the switch mounted on the rear
end of the shoe-body for carrying out automatic put-off
function.
[0009] Said thick outsole of the shoe-sole is opened a guide slot
and a pitting communicated each other at the back end; said middle
sole located on the outsole is drilled a through-hole at the back
end and two guide holes at the heel portion approaching the back
end.
[0010] Said mouthing portions are opened on the upper, and any
place between the upper and the decorative lace to form said
tongue.
[0011] Said flutter foil has a flat bottom portion and two
corresponded opposite drawing fins, said drawing fin has a guide
fin with parallel guide grooves formed at the outside; said drawing
fin of the flutter foil is attached with a fixing portion at the
extended free end for fixing on the tongue together.
[0012] Said action regulating mechanism is also comprised of a pair
of guide plates and two inserting strips, said guide plate is
located on the action space sandwiched between the upper and the
outside of the drawing fin of the flutter foil, and has a set of
blocking faces coordinating to the guide grooves of the guide fin,
and a set of guide holes formed between two adjacent blocking faces
of the guide plate for cooperating to the guide grooves of the
guide fin to supply a way for the inserting strip interweaving
through to construct a guide moving up-downward.
[0013] The free ends of the drawing fins of said flutter foil are
attached with a fixing portion respectively for fixing on the
coordinated portion of the tongue.
[0014] Said control mechanism includes a switch located on the rear
end of the shoe-body extending a pushing bar forward the guide slot
of the outsole, a hook plate including an level plate that extends
crossly at least one hook downward and a stopper at front of the
hook below said level plate, and plural of catching through-holes
formed on the plate; a snap frame being a plate is located on the
middle sole, and has at least one through-hole formed on the
surface for passing through the hook and overlapping to the
corresponded guide holes, meanwhile a through-hole formed on for
passing through said stopper; a stationary guide has a close flange
formed upward along the round edge surrounding a space for
installing said hook plate, and a long-slot formed on middle
portion of the plate portion, said stationary guide assembled with
said hook plate is mounted on the bottom side of the heel portion
of the bottom filler, so that the hooks and the stopper extend out
downward from the long-slot, and the hook plate can move
front-backward in the space surrounded by the stationary guide and
the bottom filler.
[0015] Said hook plate has plurals of long-holes formed on the both
sides of hooks respectively, meanwhile at least one long catching
through-hole is attached with a restoring spring, coordinating to
catching long-through-holes, said stationary guide has plurals of
pins projected upward for standing in the inside of the
long-through-hole so that at least one pin touches against the end
of the restoring spring located at in the inside of the
long-through-hole for generating automatic restoring power pushing
the hook plate back.
[0016] The hook has an ace bottom end.
[0017] The surface of the tongue of said tongue portion also
includes a decorative lace for adjusting the tightness of the
tongue.
[0018] An automatic tying and lowing shoes is typically comprised
of a shoe body, an action regulating mechanism and a control
mechanism; wherein said shoe-body is constructed of tongue portion,
upper portions and shoe-sole; a pair of mouthing portions are
formed between the tongue portion and the upper portions
respectively at the both sides of tongue; said tongue portion is a
tongue; said shoe-sole includes a thin outsole, a middle sole and a
bottom filler; said bottom filler is fastened on the middle sole
with the front portion so that the middle and heel portions can
took off from the middle sole; said action regulating mechanism is
a U-shaped flutter foil with a pair of fins at the both sides, and
is connected to the both sides of the tongue with the both extended
top edges of fins respectively, and connected to the bottom filler
at the rear portion with the bottom flat side fixedly for towing
the tongue and heel portion of the bottom filler simultaneously and
relatively moving to the outsole cooperating to the attempting
action; said control mechanism is consisted of a switch, a hook
plate, a stationary guide and a snap frame, said hook plate and
said stationary guide are attached on the heel portion of the
bottom filler for locking on said snap frame located on the middle
sole cooperating to put-on attempting action, and the lock of the
hook and the snap frame is released by the switch mounted on the
rear end of the shoe-body for carrying out automatic put-off
function.
[0019] Said thin outsole of the shoe-sole is opened a guide slot
and a pitting communicated each other at the back end; said middle
sole located on the thin outsole is drilled two guide holes at the
back end.
[0020] Said control mechanism includes a switch located on the rear
end of the shoe-body extending a pushing bar forward the guide slot
of the outsole, a hook plate including an level plate that extends
crossly hooks downward, and two rows of plural of long-holes
separately built upon the plate at the both sides of the hook row,
meanwhile at least one long-hole attached with a restoring spring;
a torsional spring attached on below the hook plate and front of
the stopper in pivot joint, in which one leg of said torsional
spring touches against the bottom side of the hook plate tightly,
another leg in open state touches against a check-board, one end of
said check-board is inserted into the space between the front lug
and rear lug built upon top surface of the middle sole; a snap
frame being a plate is located on the middle sole, and has at least
one through-hole formed on the surface for passing through the hook
and corresponding to the guide hole of said middle sole; a
stationary guide has a close flange formed upward along the round
edge surrounding a space for installing said hook plate, and a
long-slot formed on middle portion of the plate portion, and two
rows of plural of raised pins separately built upon the both sides
of the long-slot for stretching into the long-holes of the hook
plate separately, said raised pins are pushed by at least one
restoring spring located at inside of the long-slot to form the
power of pushing the hook plate moving to original state; said
stationary guide assembled with said hook plate is mounted on the
bottom side of the heel portion of the bottom filler, so that the
hooks and the stopper extend out downward from the long-slot, and
the hook plate can move front-backward in the space surrounded by
the stationary guide and the bottom filler.
[0021] Said front and rear lugs using to stand up for the
check-board are built upon the middle sole, and fixed on the top
surface of the snap frame.
[0022] Said hook plate can be assembled with said stationary guide
further to be mounted on the shoe-sole, coordinating to the
stationary guide the catching snap frame is located on the bottom
filler.
[0023] As utilizing above project, because the tongue of the
shoe-body and the part of bottom filler are linked by the action
regulating mechanism in the present invention, and moving
up-downward cooperating with the attempting action to control the
opening angle of the mouthing portions between the tongue and the
uppers, and cooperating to the locking and releasing actions
between the bottom filler and the middle sole under the control of
the control mechanism, the automatic put-on or put-off function can
be carried out surely with low fault rate, it can be manufactured
in industrial scale, and do not need lace taking part in.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0024] FIG. 1 is an exploded view showing the embodiment of the
present invention.
[0025] FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing the combined action
regulating mechanism of the embodiment of the present
invention.
[0026] FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the idle state of the
embodiment of the present invention.
[0027] FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the wearing state of
the embodiment of the present invention.
[0028] FIG. 5 is a part sectional view showing the wearing action
of the embodiment of the present invention.
[0029] FIG. 6 is a part sectional side view showing the wearing
action of the embodiment of the present invention.
[0030] FIG. 7 is a top side view showing the locking state of the
control mechanism of the present invention.
[0031] FIG. 8 is a top side view showing the releasing state of the
control mechanism of the present invention.
[0032] FIG. 9 is a part sectional side view showing the idle state
of the embodiment of the present invention.
[0033] FIG. 10 is a part sectional side view showing the put-off
state of the embodiment of the present invention.
[0034] FIG. 11 is a part sectional side view showing the wearing
action of another embodiment of the present invention.
[0035] FIG. 11A is a part enlarged view showing the part of FIG.
11.
[0036] FIG. 12 is a par sectional side view showing the put-on
state of another embodiment of the present invention.
[0037] FIG. 13 is a part sectional side view showing the putting
off action of another embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0038] Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, the first embodiment provided
by the present invention is typically comprised of a shoe-body 1,
an action regulating mechanism 2 installed into the inside of the
upper 12 of the shoe-body 1, and a control mechanism 3 mounted on
the inside of the shoe-sole 13 of the shoe-body 1, as shown in FIG.
1.
[0039] Said shoe-body 1 is constructed of tongue portion 11, upper
portions 12 and shoe-sole 13 overlapping together. Wherein:
[0040] Said tongue portion 11 includes a tongue 110 and an
attachment 111 further designed into decorative lace, or Nylon
sticking band and so on, for adjusting the slack of the tongue 110
further to meeting the different foot of users.
[0041] Said upper 12 has a mouthing portion 121 formed on the
interface to the tongue 110 at any position between the said tongue
110 and the decorative lace 111, thereby decision the area of the
tongue 110 and the moving distance of the action regulating
mechanism 2 for cooperating to the actions of the action regulating
mechanism 2 and the control mechanism 3, the changing of the
opening angle of the tongue 11 and the upper 12, and the attempting
actions of the user, an operation interlace space constructed of
the surface of the upper 12 and the outside surface of the drawing
fin 211 of the flutter foil 21 supplies to the drew moving of the
action regulating mechanism 2 and the tongue 11.
[0042] Said shoe-sole 13 includes an outsole 131, a middle sole 132
and a bottom filler 133; said thick outsole 131 is opened a guide
slot 134 and a pitting 135 communicated each other at the back end;
said middle sole 132 located on the outsole 131 is drilled a
through-hole 138 at the back end and two guide holes 136 137 at the
heel portion approaching the back end; said bottom filler 133 is
fastened on the middle sole 132 with the front portion so that the
middle and heel portions can took off from the middle sole 132.
[0043] Said action regulating mechanism 2 is typically comprised of
a U-shaped flutter foil, a pair of guide plates 22 and two
inserting strips 23. Wherein:
[0044] Said flutter foil 21 having a flat bottom 210 and two
extended opposite coordinated wing-shaped drawing fins 211 is
connected to the both sides of the tongue 11 fixedly with the upper
fixing portions 212 along the upper edges respectively together,
said each drawing fin 211 extends out a guide plate 214 having
paralleled guide grooves 213 from one edge in collateral, said two
guide plates 214 is extended and located on the action space
sandwiched between the upper 12 and the outside of the drawing fin
211, thereby the user can adjust the effective length of the
flutter foil 21 in accordance with the height of the instep of
foot; the flat bottom 210 of the flutter foil 21 is fixed on the
rear portion of the bottom filler 133, thereby towing the tongue 11
and heel portion of the bottom filler 133 simultaneously and
relatively moving up-downward to the shoe-sole 13 cooperating to
the attempting action.
[0045] Said guide plate 22 located in the action space sandwiched
by the upper 12 and eh drawing fin 211 is fixed on the upper 12
together, on which there are a set of blocking faces 221
coordinating to the guide grooves 213 of the guide fin 211, and a
set of guide holes 222 formed between two adjacent blocking faces
221 of the guide plate 22 for cooperating to the guide grooves 213
of the guide fin 211 to supply a way for the inserting strip 23
interweaving through to combine the guide plate 22 into the drawing
fin 211 to form a whole body, as shown in FIG. 2, so that the
drawing fins 211 is limited in a guide moving up-downward, and
fixed in right-leftward.
[0046] Said control mechanism 3 includes a switch 31, a hook plate
32, a stationary guide 33 and a snap frame 34. Wherein:
[0047] Said switch 31 located on the rear of the shoe-sole 13
extends a pushing bar 311 into the inside of the guide slot 134 of
the outsole 131 on the action way of the shoe-sole 13, on the other
words, said pushing bar 311 can move into the pitting 135
front-backward along the guide slot 134 repeatedly for pushing the
stopper 324 of the hook plate 32 to release the lock of it.
[0048] Said hook plate 32 is a plate 321 extending two hooks 322
323 along the central long side downward and vertically in front
and back position respectively, and a stopper 324 formed on the
front of the front hook 322 downward, and plurals of long-holes 325
formed on the both sides of hooks 322 323 respectively, meanwhile
at least one long catching through-hole 325 is attached with a
restoring spring 328, as shown in FIG. 7, for touching against the
pin 333 of the stationary guide 33 with one end.
[0049] Said stationary guide 33 used for mounting said hook plate
32 on the heel portion of said bottom filler 133 is molded into a
flat plate with a close flange 331 formed upward along the round
edge, the height of the flange 331 is higher than the thickness of
the plate 321 of the hook plate 32, surrounding a space 332 used
for installing said hook plate 32, meanwhile said stationary guide
33 has plurals of pins 333 projected upward for standing in the
inside of the long-through-hole 325 so that at least one pin 333
touches against the end of the restoring spring 328 located at in
the inside of the long-through-hole 325 for generating automatic
restoring power pushing the hook plate 32 back, as shown in FIG. 7
and FIG. 8; said stationary guide 33 also has a long-slot 334
formed on middle portion of the plate 331 coordinating to the
positions of the two hooks 322 323 of the hook plate 32 for them
passing through, said stationary guide 33 assembled with said hook
plate 32 is mounted on the bottom side of the heel portion of the
bottom filler 133, so that the hooks 322 323 and the stopper 324
extend out downward from the long-slot 334, and the hook plate 32
can move front-backward in the space 332 surrounded by the
stationary guide 33 and the bottom filler 133.
[0050] Said snap frame 34 being a flat frame plate preferring to be
metal frame is fixed on the heel portion of the middle sole 132 of
the shoe-sole 13 above the pitting 135 of the outsole 131 providing
two through-holes 341 342 corresponding to the two guide holes 136
137 of the middle sole 13 for the hooks 322 323 passing through and
locking on respectively in the pitting 135 of the outsole 131, said
snap frame 34 also supplies a through-hole 138 for passing through
the stopper 324 of the hook plate 32 to getting into the inside of
the guide slot 134 of the outsole 131 facing to the pushing bar 311
of the switch 31 for releasing the lock of the hook plate 32 and
the snap frame 34.
[0051] Referring to FIG. 3, the user can pre-adjust the width of
the tongue portion 11 and the effective length of the flutter foil
21 into desired comfortable according to the his foot, in
practicing, in the idle shoes the tongue portion 11 is in opening
state relative to the upper 12 so that the mouthing portions are
opened, of course the heel portion of the bottom filler 133 is in
took-off state under the towing coming from the flutter foil
21.
[0052] When tending to wear on, as shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, in
this time the tongue portion 11 is in opening state, as showing in
FIG. 3 and FIG. 5, the heel portion of the bottom filler 133 is in
take-off state in the same time, the foot of user can stretch
aslant into the inside of the shoe-body 1, step on and down the
heel portion of the bottom filler 133 to tow the tongue portion 11
moving down under the drawing of the drawing fins 211 of the
flutter foil 21 simultaneously until reaching the level place the
hooks 322 323 of the hook plate 32 of the control mechanism 3
located on the bottom filler 133 aim to and pass through the two
through-holes 341 342 of the snap frame 34 and two guide holes 136
137 of the middle sole 132, then lock on the snap frame 34, during
this term, because the heads of the hooks 322 323 are designed into
ace shape, when they run into the snap frame 34 located on the
middle sole 132, said hook plate 32 is pushed frontward by aced
heads of the hooks 322 323 as going down, as shown in FIG. 6, in
this time, due to the static pins 333, the moving hook plate 32
will press down the restoring springs 328 located in the
catching-long-through-holes 325 respectively to save power, as
shown in FIG. 8, of restoring original state; when said hooks 322
323 reach out from the middle sole 132 to get the pitting 135 of
the outsole 131, under the restoring power of said restoring
springs 328, said hook plate 32 is pushed backward relative to the
bottom filler 133 and the middle sole 132 forward to rear portion
of the bottom filler 133 along with the stationary guide 33 until
the hooks 322 323 completely lock on the snap frame 34 of the
middle sole 132, as shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 9, in this time the
shoes is in wear-on state, as shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 9, even if
walking, the instep exerts pushing force on the tongue portion 11,
since the bottom filler 133 is locked on the middle sole 132, and
connected to the tongue portion 11, the bottom filler 133 will not
loose off, the feet of user will be retained in the inside of the
shoes without sliding out.
[0053] When tending to take off the shoes with an attempting
action, as shown in FIG. 10, the user just presses down said switch
31 with a force backward coming from the heel of foot as touching
against an object, so that the switch 31 is moved relative to the
inside of the shoe-body to make the pushing bar 311 push the
stopper 324 of the hook plate 32 frontward, further to pushing the
hook plate 32 to press down the restoring springs 328 cooperating
with the static pins 333 to save restoring power, as shown in FIG.
8, until the hooks 322 323 slide off from the edges of the
through-holes 341 342 of the snap frame 34 entering the guide holes
136 137 of the middle sole 132, cooperating to take-off instep
action, the tongue portion 11 going up tows the bottom filler 133
taking off simultaneously and departing from the middle sole 132,
in this time the hook plate 32 has lost the extra force exerting on
the hooks 322 323, and will be pushed back to the original position
by the restoring springs 328 rearward, the foot of user can
withdraw back from the shoes, as shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 and FIG.
7.
[0054] The present invention also provides another embodiment, such
as using a thinner sole shoe, as shown in FIG. 11 to 13, basing on
above-mentioned structure, the front and rear hooks 322 323 are
reduced in extending high utilizing flattened molding design for
meeting the thin middle sole 132, meanwhile a torsional spring 329
is located on the front of the front hook 322 below the hook plate
32 in pivot connection, in which one leg of said torsional spring
329 touches against the bottom side of the hook plate 32 tightly,
another leg 320 in open state touches against a check-board 327,
one end of said check-board 327 is inserted into the space between
the front lug 139 and rear lug 130 built upon top surface of the
middle sole 132, or the snap frame 34 fixed on said middle sole
132, as shown in FIG. 11A.
[0055] In accordance with above-mentioned structure, as shown in
FIG. 11A, as tending to put on, in this time the tongue portion 11
is in open state, such as the heel portion of the bottom filler 133
is in take-off state, the foot of user can stretch aslant into the
inside of the shoe-body 1, along with stepping on and down the heel
portion of the bottom filler 133 to tow the tongue portion 11
moving down under the drawing of the drawing fins 211 of the
flutter foil 21, simultaneously the hooks 322 323 of the hook plate
32 located on the bottom filler 133 aims to the two guide holes 136
137 of the middle sole 132, because another leg 320 of the
torsional spring 329 backs up the check-board 327, and one end of
the check-board 327 is resisted on the front lug 139 of the middle
sole 132, as shown in FIG. 11A, along with going down of the bottom
filler 133, said check-board 327 will push the hook plate 32
forward moving relatively to the bottom filler 133 under the
resisting up coming from the front lug 139, so that the snap frame
34 will push down the restoring springs 328 located on the hook
plate 32, cooperating to the back-up coming from the static pins
333, the restoring springs 328 are in compressed state, until the
front and rear hooks 322 323 aim to and pass through the two
through-holes 341 342 of the snap frame 34 and two guide holes 136
137 of the middle sole 132, such as the bottom filler 133 is fully
contacted with the middle sole 132, the rear lug 130 is backed up
the middle portion of the check-board 327 working as a fulcrum,
cooperating to the pressing force coming from the bottom filler
133, the front edge of the check-board 137 will slide off from the
front lug 139 riding off the resisting up, under the extra force
coming from the restoring springs 328, the hook plate 32 will be
pushed backward relative to the bottom filler 133, so that the
front and rear hooks 322 323 catch on the snap frame 34 of the
middle sole 132 completely, as shown in FIG. 12.
[0056] As the user tends to put off the shoes, referring to FIG.
13, the action and principle are as same as the above-mentioned
first embodiment, here is not described again.
[0057] Of course, said control mechanism of the present invention
is not limited in above description, said hook plate also can be
attached on the outsole, correspondently the snap frame is mounted
on the bottom filler, in the same way holding the bottom filler on
the middle sole and the outsole function also can be carried out.
Therefore taking advantages of a switch controlling the bottom
filler lock-on or depart-off with the middle sole and outsole is
claimed by the present invention. The key feature of the present
invention is that the tongue portion and the bottom filler are
linked together in joint action in the action regulating mechanism,
comparing with the prior arts, the structure has less components
and simple features without tying and loosing lace, so that the
action of the structure can be carried out smoothly and surely,
with low rejection rate and low production cost.
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