US 12,137,776 B2
Shoe equipped with a shoelace
Jerzy Franciszek Kucharko, Vienna (AT)
Assigned to FIRST WEST GMBH, Vienna (AT); and Jerzy Franciszek Kucharko, Vienna (AT)
Appl. No. 17/431,321
Filed by FIRST WEST GMBH, Vienna (AT); and Jerzy Franciszek Kucharko, Vienna (AT)
PCT Filed Feb. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/AT2020/000003
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 16, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/168369, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. A 58/2019 (AT), filed on Feb. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132994 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A43C 5/00 (2006.01); A43B 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC A43C 5/00 (2013.01) [A43B 23/02 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shoe having a planar upper region and including two rows of eyelets and a shoelace having a longitudinal region threaded into the eyelets, and an edging element which is fastened to the planar upper at one of the eyelets and is fixed so as not to move away from the eyelet and has a through-hole through which the shoelace extends,
wherein the edging element is permanently and rigidly connected to the longitudinal region of the shoelace, such that this connection extends through the longitudinal region and cannot be released without destruction of the connection, and
wherein the edging element includes a plastic material molded over the longitudinal region of the shoelace.