Schering-plough Healthcare Products Inc.

Msd Consumer Care, Inc.

Msd Consumber Care, Inc.

Bayer Consumer Care Ag

Richard T Avent

Laura J Crane

Bernard F Grisoni

Jane M Cappaert

Charles E Lundy

Leanne Blair

Christopher Cortina

Karla Klein

Pamela Curtiss

Brendan Reilly

Elizabeth Morgan

Theresa Chee

Swapna Purani

David Contract

Philip C Yang

Donald Barry Thompson

Harold A Howlett

Donald G Moore

Jr Charles E Lundy

Insole

Disclosed is a footwear insole for alleviating arthritis pain of the foot, knee, and/or hip by providing a rigid shell layer for arch support, and a topcloth, an upper cushioning layer, and a lower cushioning layer for cushioning. Further, the rigid shell layer includes a shell aperture, and the lower cushioning layer includes a lower layer aperture, through which a portion of the upper cushioning layer extends for cushioning.

Footwear insole for alleviating arthritis pain

Pair of arch supports

Footwear insole

A removable insole for insertion into footwear, includes a lower layer made of a viscoelastic gel and including a lower surface, an upper surface, a toe portion, a heel portion and a medial arch portion interconnecting the toe portion and the heel portion, a first recess formed in the lower surface of the toe portion and a second recess formed in the lower surface of the heel portion, each recess having a peripheral side wall and a top wall, a plurality of thin, parallel, spaced apart sinusoidal wave shaped spring walls formed from the viscoelastic gel and connected to the top wall and the peripheral side wall in each recess, and the spring walls having lower edges generally coplanar with a lower surface of the toe portion and heel portion which is in surrounding relation to the respective recess; and a top cover secured to the upper surface of the lower layer.

Gel insoles having thin spring walls

Growing community of inventors

Memphis, TN, United States of America

Richard T Avent