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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1996
Giancarlo Foscaro, Treviso, IT;
Mirco Tesser, Montebelluna, IT;
Mirco Battistella, Spresiano, IT;
Mirco Bergamin, Castelfranco, IT;
Gilberto Canil, Noale, IT;
Nordica S.p.A., Trevignano, IT;
Abstract
Sports shoe with improved lateral rigidity, including a shell rigid reinforcing frame and a shell soft portion connected to the shell rigid reinforcing frame. The reinforcing frame includes bands of plastic material extending along a first inclined directrix and a second inclined directrix such that open regions are defined in the shell reinforcing frame. The first inclined directrix extends at a foot side from the tip region towards the region lying above the heel region, and the second inclined directrix also extends the foot side from the heel region towards the foot instep region.