US 11,730,235 B2
Heel integration for a shoe
Timesha Brown, Mt. Morris, MI (US)
Filed by Timesha Brown, Mt. Morris, MI (US)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/943,725.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/881,053, filed on Jul. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0030114 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A43B 21/26 (2006.01); A43B 21/32 (2006.01); A43B 21/42 (2006.01); A43B 21/06 (2006.01); A43B 21/24 (2006.01); A43B 23/08 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01); A43B 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 21/26 (2013.01) [A43B 21/32 (2013.01); A43B 21/06 (2013.01); A43B 21/24 (2013.01); A43B 21/36 (2013.01); A43B 21/42 (2013.01); A43B 23/088 (2013.01); A61F 5/0111 (2013.01); A61F 5/0127 (2013.01); A61F 5/0195 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A combination, comprising:
a shoe having an upper and a sole, wherein the shoe is configured to cover an instep of a foot of a wearer; and
a heel integration system including an insert having a front end and a back end, the insert configured to be disposed in the shoe, and configured to receive an ankle-foot orthoses brace while the shoe is worn, the insert having a heel portion and an ankle portion, the ankle portion having a curved wall with at least one bulge formed therein,
wherein the bulge is created from an indentation formed on an interior surface of the ankle portion which forms a protrusion on an exterior surface of the ankle portion,
wherein the indentation is configured to receive at least one projection of the Ankle-foot orthoses brace,
wherein the protrusion is disposed directly adjacent to the indentation,
wherein the protrusion has a shape that corresponds with a shape of the indentation, and
wherein the at least one bulge is formed in the curved wall of the ankle portion at the back end of the insert.