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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
May. 26, 1998
Jean-Louis Demarchi, Saint-Jorioz, FR;
Salomon S.A., Metz-Tessy, FR;
Abstract
Footwear assembly for the practice of a sport, especially an in-line roller skate boot, of the type including two elements of which one, internal, is relatively flexible and forms a removable liner or boot, and the other, external, is relatively rigid and includes a shell, provided with a longitudinally opening at its upper portion to allow for the introduction of the liner or boot in the shell. The tightening of the footwear assembly on the foot is done means of a lace connecting the internal and external edges of the opening to one another, which lace is also adapted to cooperate simultaneously with the rigid shell, via a linkage, wherein the linking of the liner or boot to the shell is constituted by at least one strap extending from each of the lateral zones of the liner or boot to which it is affixed and positioned opposite corresponding passages which are also provided on each of the lateral portions of the rigid shell, the length of each strap being provided so as to be capable of externally overlapping the lateral sides of the shell, and at least one upper portion of the liner or boot to which it is connected by means of the lace cooperating in traction with the free end of each of the straps.