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Sole for shoes including transpiration side valves formed by mouldingSole for shoes including transpiration side valves formed by moulding description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20050241180, Sole for shoes including transpiration side valves formed by moulding. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] The present invention relates to a sole for shoe including a plurality of valves distributed along its outer sides that allow the shoe to transpirate and to keep its impermeable property unchanged. [0002] It is known that the basic problem of shoes provided with sole of plastic material consists in that the sole of the foot is not able to perspire in a suitable way. [0003] To overcome such problem a number of solution have been proposed to improve the foot aeration and to allow the interior of the shoe to communicate with the outside. [0004] Italian Patent No. 1,296,111 in the name of the same Applicant discloses a sole for shoe having a plurality of check valves in the thickness of the sole for discharging the inner air which are made of membranes of elastic material in which microholes are formed. The membranes have a concavity directed to the sole of the foot under which a room or a pre-chamber is formed communicating at the lower side with the outside of the sole. [0005] During walking, when the pressure in the outer pre-chamber exceeds the inner pressure of the membrane, the holes in the concave membranes are closed, thus making the shoe impermeable. [0006] Such a solution offering, however, the maximum reliability, has only one limit: it cannot be used in many cases where the design of the tread of the shoe sole cannot be modified because it is conditioned by the function performed. Reference should be made for instance to the shoe soles for trekking and climbing boots that have treads provided with prominent raised patterns indispensable for the shoe to grip the soil upon walking. It should also be mentioned the case in which metallic or plastic means are secured to the shoe sole or heel to provide anti-slipping or anti-ice functions with respect to the road, as taught for example by Patent IT 1,229,575. [0007] There is also the need to find alternative solutions not involving the tread of the sole. Patent GB 2 290 016 discloses an aerated sole which is fully made of elastic material and has at the upper side a plurality of protrusions provided with through holes which communicate at the lower side with a plurality of horizontal channels extending within the sole and reaching side openings. However, such solution allows on one side foul air to flow out of the interior of the shoe to the outside, thus ensuring the aeration without passing through the sole of the shoe, on the other side disregards at all the problem of the impermeability of the shoe which is at least compromised as there is no means that prevents liquids from entering the sole. [0008] Such a trouble does not exist in a commercially available sole which is provided with inner channels conveying air to an output side opening which is closed by a plastic valve that prevents liquid from entering. Such plastic valve is anchored to the side of the sole in a step after its moulding, which involves an additional cost which is added to the s inherent cost of the valve and makes such a solution uneconomic. Further, the overall dimension of this valve is such that only one valve can be used only at the plantar area with the result that its effectiveness in exchanging foul air inside the shoes is compromised. [0009] The present invention seeks to overcome all of the problems and the limits described above by providing a sole with air discharging valves of elastic material which are disposed at the sides along the periphery of the sole and can be easily made in only one step upon moulding the sole. [0010] This has been accomplished according to a first embodiment by providing a sole with a peripheral channel conveying air moved during walking to one or more valves embodied in the side of the sole from a plurality of aeration chambers, consisting of protrusions, dome-shaped chambers or igloos which are hollow and opened at the upper side towards an inner perforated transpiration sole of the shoe. Advantageously, such valves consist merely of a membrane or diaphragm provided with microholes and having a convexity to the outside and closing a channel passing through the side of the sole. Advantageously, such valves can be made in one piece and in one moulding step together with the sole, the membrane being perforated mechanically in a later step. [0011] In a second embodiment the protrusions or igloos are replaced by a sole of elastic material with the same thickness and a low specific gravity, on which the inner perforated transpiration sole of the shoe can rest, provided that the peripheral channel and the valves still remain. With regard to this, it should be appreciated that air is expelled during walking even if the aeration chambers are not present as a temperature above that of the foot of the walker is reached inside the shoe so that the sweat produced by the sudoriparous glands of the foot sole in the presence of enzymatic or bacterial flora helps a fermentation which produces an inner pressure inside the shoe which is higher than the outside pressure, thus causing air to escape through the side valves. [0012] A better understanding of the invention will follow from the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings that show only by way of a not limiting example a preferred embodiment thereof. [0013] In the drawings: [0014] FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a shoe with a sole provided with side discharging valves according to the present invention during walking; [0015] FIG. 2 is an elevation side view of the outside of a sole of FIG. 1; [0016] FIG. 3 is a view of the same sole of FIG. 2 with a length of the sole broken away; [0017] FIG. 4 is a longitudinal section of the sole; [0018] FIG. 5 is a partially sectioned top plan view of the sole of the preceding Figures showing the shape of the valves inside the side of the sole; [0019] FIG. 6 is a cross section of the preceding sole along the plane VI-VI of FIG. 5; [0020] FIG. 7 is a cross sectioned portion of a variation of the sole of FIG. 6 where it is shown that an inner sole of the shoe which is perforated and able to perspire lies on a plurality of protrusions; [0021] FIG. 8 shows a top plan view of another variation of a partially sectioned sole with a different shape of the igloos; [0022] FIG. 9 is a cross section of the sole of FIG. 8; [0023] FIG. 10 shows a sports shoe in which the sole consists of a rubber tread to which the side valves open and above which a polyurethane member is placed; [0024] FIGS. 11a-11d show plan views of a set of shapes of shoe soles with different designs of the protrusions or igloos; Continue reading about Sole for shoes including transpiration side valves formed by moulding... 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