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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1994
Jung S Choi, Kangnam-ku, Seoul, KR;
Other;
Abstract
Sports shoes having exchangeable heels. Each the exchangeable heel is detachably attached to a heel section of a sole such that it is exchanged with the other heel. The heel is axially recessed on its top center to have a trapezoidal recessed rail and has a pair of inserts. The inserts protrude forward from a front end of the heel and is spaced apart from and parallel to each other and have downward wedges at their ends. The sole is recessed at its rear section to form the heel section which has an trapezoidal protruding rail for substantially meeting with the trapezoidal recessed rail of the heel. A pair of snap units is movably provided in the sole for snapping up the downward wedges of the inserts of the heel respectively. Each the snap unit comprises a movable snapping member partially having an upward wedge for engaged with the downward wedge of the insert of the heel and an elastic member elastically movably mounting the snapping member in the sole such that the snapping member is elastically inwardly pushed and allows the downward wedge of the insert of the heel to be disengaged from the upward wedge of the snapping member.