Salomon S.a.

Salomon S.a.s.

Patrick Leick

Benjamin Grenet

Thierry Donnadieu

René Borel

Pascal Stryjak

Sylvain Richard

Gérald Delgorgue

Delphine Madelaine

Frédéric Cretinon

Eddy Boutrin

Hugo Roche

An article of footwear, such as a shoe including an outer sole assembly and an upper, the outer sole assembly extending length-wise from a rear end to a front end, and width-wise between a lateral side and a medial side, the outer sole assembly having a surface for contact with the ground, the outer sole assembly including a wear layer provided to take support on the ground, the wear layer having at least one through-opening, the outer sole assembly including at least one reinforcing layer arranged between the wear layer and the upper, the reinforcing layer extending at least in the area of the opening. A damping layer is arranged between the wear layer and the reinforcing layer.

Footwear with improved sole assembly

An article of footwear including a sole, an upper, and a device for reversibly tightening the upper, the upper including an envelope and a reinforcement which at least partially covers the envelope, the reinforcement including at least one lateral branch and at least one medial branch, each branch extending transversely from a proximal end located by at the sole to a distal end, the tightening device including at least one lateral linking point and at least one medial linking point, each secured to the upper, and a mechanism for biasing the connection points in a direction to reversible tighten the upper. The envelope is flexible, at least one connection point is located on a branch of the reinforcement, and at least one branch is adhesively bonded to the envelope for at least part of its length.

Footwear which improves foot support

An article of footwear which includes an outer bottom assembly, the bottom assembly including an outsole and a reinforcement layer. A damping layer is positioned between the outsole and the reinforcement layer, and at least one flange connects the outsole to the reinforcement layer.

Footwear with improved bottom assembly

Footwear article

The guide device for boot lace is constituted by an outer framework (11) possessing mechanical strength properties and capable of being fastened to the boot upper, and by an insert (12) made of a material having a low coefficient of friction fastened inside the outer jacket (11) and delimiting the path (12b) of the lace inside the guide device. This guide device makes it possible, in particular, to reduce the friction generated between the lace and the guide device.

Guide device for boot lace

Surface pattern on a boot sole

A sport boot including an upper equipped with an opening to enable passage of the foot, and further including an internal quarter and an external quarter connected with respect to one another by a lace or cable in connection with a blocking device or blocker, along a determined alternate path around return elements arranged on either side of the opening. The ends of the strands forming the lace are rendered integral with two fixed anchoring points obtained in a lower end zone of the lacing located towards the front of the boot, the strands mutually forming a free loop at their opposite end, adapted to constitute a single gripping element to exert a traction along a force distributed symmetrically along each of the strands from both fixed points.

Sport boot having a fixed-lace closure system

Flexible sports boot including a closing system, provided with a device for memorizing its tightening tension, including an opening and closing system by lacing comprising a link forming a closed circuit integrating tightening and latching device and connecting to each other, along a predetermined path, a series of return elements located in a fixed manner on either side of the quarters of upper, wherein the opening and closing system of the upper includes, in addition, a progressive adjustment device for relocating an optimum reference tightening tension of link, during its latching command, the adjustment device being independent of the tightening and latching device so as to enable the memorizing of the reference tightening tension, the tightening being undertaken only by the tightening and latching device, which can be rendered detachable from a fixed complementary gripping portions obtained on upper, so as to obtain a greater unlacing amplitude of link during opening, without affecting the adjustment of its memorized reference tension.

Boot with tightening system with memorization of tension

The locking device is of the type acting for at least one lace, especially including a pusher defining the axis of rotation of a blocking member, also including a hollow body of which a cavity defines, on the one hand, at least a path for passage of each strand of the lace, and on the other hand, a housing for the locking member, the locking member being of a circular shape and rotationally free about the translationally mobile axis. The device operates by cooperation of the locking member with each path for locking each strand of the lace by wedging, such that the locking member is elastically biased in a locking direction of the strand(s) of lace by action on its axis of rotation.

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Villaz, France

Patrick Leick