US 12,329,232 B2
Self-opening shoe
Christopher Robert Hughes, Draper, UT (US)
Assigned to Foot Scientific, Inc., Draper, UT (US)
Filed by Foot Scientific, Inc., Draper, UT (US)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/898,333.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/859,714, filed on Jun. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0383424 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A43B 11/00 (2006.01); A43B 23/02 (2006.01); A43B 23/22 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 11/00 (2013.01) [A43B 23/0245 (2013.01); A43B 23/222 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A self-opening shoe, comprising:
a shoe, including:
a foot bed;
an upper over the foot bed, the upper including:
a medial side including an upper medial portion and an upper medial edge;
a lateral side including an upper lateral portion and an upper lateral edge; and
a collar defining an opening of the shoe;
a tongue positioned beneath the upper medial edge and the upper lateral edge of the upper; and
a closure associated with the upper medial edge and the upper lateral edge and positioned over a portion of the tongue; and
a shoe-opening spring, including:
a base extending across the foot bed at a location beneath the tongue, the base including a medial end and a lateral end;
a medial spring extending upwardly from the medial end of the base, the medial spring forcing the upper medial portion of the medial side of the upper medially outward; and
a lateral spring extending upwardly from the lateral end of the base, the lateral spring forcing the upper lateral portion of the lateral side of the upper laterally outward.