US 12,011,062 B2
Orthopedic foot insert
Samuel Scheinberg, Portland, OR (US); and Cheryl Scheinberg, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to The Seaberg Company, Inc., Wilsonville, OR (US)
Filed by The Seaberg Company, Inc., Wilsonville, OR (US)
Filed on May 30, 2018, as Appl. No. 15/993,349.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/518,440, filed on Jun. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2018/0352903 A1, Dec. 13, 2018
Int. Cl. A43B 17/03 (2006.01); A43B 3/00 (2022.01); A43B 7/1464 (2022.01); A43B 17/00 (2006.01); A43B 17/14 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 17/03 (2013.01) [A43B 3/0078 (2013.01); A43B 7/1464 (2022.01); A43B 17/006 (2013.01); A43B 17/14 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A comfort system to protect a user's foot against friction between a foot and footwear, the comfort system comprising:
footwear; and
a comfort insert, comprising:
an inner body component including at least one sheet of folded or crumpled, flexible, thin plastic film material forming a plurality of layers; and
a flexible outer containment component encompassing and securely containing the inner body component and thereby limiting an ability of the comfort insert to spread beyond a predetermined size, while permitting the comfort insert to be depressed into a flattened configuration to fit between the user's foot and an interior surface of the footwear,
wherein the flexible outer containment component comprises an open mesh netting material with a mesh opening size in the range of 0.20 inch- 0.75 inch, wherein the thin plastic film material has a thickness in the range of 0.0003 inch- 0.003 inch, and wherein the flexible outer containment component encloses the inner body component such that the inner body component remains a loose mass within the flexible outer containment component allowing the plurality of layers to slip and slide along one another's surfaces when the comfort insert is used in the footwear.