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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 1992
Filed:
May. 24, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Theodore S Gross, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Assignee:
Converse, Inc., North Reading, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A43B / ; A43B / ; A43B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36 31 ; 36 3 / ; 36 28 ; 36114 ;
Abstract
A shoe that reduces the likelihood of stress fractures occurring in the wearer's metatarsals. The shoe includes a midsole made of (i) a stress modulation layer that is made of material of relatively high duromoeter in the region of the first, fourth and fifth metatarsal, and a material of medium durmoeter in the region of the second and third durometer, and (ii) a stress moderation layer made mostly of a material of relatively low durometer.