US 12,324,481 B1
Boot with integrated ruler
Jordan A Haas, Gilbert, PA (US)
Filed by Haas Online Enterprise, LLC, Gilbert, PA (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/330,557.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/351,287, filed on Jun. 10, 2022.
Int. Cl. A43B 23/02 (2006.01); A43B 3/00 (2022.01); G01B 3/02 (2020.01); G09F 19/20 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 3/00 (2013.01) [A43B 23/02 (2013.01); G01B 3/02 (2013.01); G09F 19/20 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A measuring tool for measuring a height and a length of either a medium in which the measuring tool is placed or an object positioned next to the measuring tool, the measuring tool adapted to be worn on a foot and a leg of a wearer, the measuring tool comprising:
an article of footwear having an exterior side, a foot portion with a heel end, an opposed toe end, a top side and an opposed bottom side, a horizontal length measured from the heel end to the toe end, and a vertical height measured from the bottom side to the top side; and
an integrated ruler having a series of visual measurement gradations positioned at regularly spaced intervals corresponding to either metric units, imperial units or combinations of metric and imperial units of measurement formed into the exterior side of the article of footwear;
wherein the measurement gradations are arranged so as to increase from the bottom side of the article of footwear in a direction upward along the vertical height aligned with the leg of the wearer and set so as to mark a height of each gradation from the bottom side of the article of footwear, whereby the height of the medium in which the measuring tool is placed is ascertained or whereby the height of the object next to the measuring tool is ascertained.