US 12,478,127 B1
Catcher's shoe
Matthew Kirby, Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Matthew Kirby, Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/812,167.
Application 17/812,167 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/860,039, filed on Apr. 27, 2020, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/839,069, filed on Apr. 26, 2019.
Int. Cl. A43B 5/00 (2022.01); A43B 5/18 (2006.01); A43B 7/38 (2006.01); A43B 13/14 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 5/185 (2013.01) [A43B 5/00 (2013.01); A43B 7/38 (2013.01); A43B 13/148 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shoe, comprising:
(a) a sole including a heel portion, an interior floor portion, a toe portion reinforced with metal or hard plastic, a rear portion, a top, and left and right sides, all assembled to define a closed-end cavity sized for ingress and egress of a human foot,
(b) and further comprising means for releasably clamping said shoe against the foot,
(c) wherein said interior floor portion features a forward tilt such that a top surface of said interior floor portion at the rear portion of the shoe has an elevation that is at least 1.5 inches greater than a top surface of said interior floor portion at the toe portion of the shoe,
(d) wherein an amount of said forward tilt is expressed as an angle that a straight line connecting said most forward point and most rearward point on said top surface of said interior floor portion makes with respect to a horizontal line running through said most forward point, said angle ranging from 15 degrees to 30 degrees, said angle being viewed as a side, cross-sectional view of said shoe;
(e) and still further wherein said heel portion of said sole is at least 4 inches in width and is also wider laterally than a lateral width of any other portion of said shoe, and
(f) said shoe thereby being configured for a baseball catcher.