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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bertrand Racine, Montreal, CA;
Assignee:
Bauer Nike Hockey, Inc., Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A43B 5/16 ; A43C 1/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A43B 5/16 ; A43C 1/314 ;
Abstract
A skate boot featuring an exterior toe protector and a method of manufacture. The skate boot is provided with a toe cover adapted to be pulled and stretched over a last allowing the skate boot to be formed in a similar fashion as a skate boot featuring an interior toe protector. The toe protector has a pair of lateral extensions which overlap the frontal edges of the lateral supporting portions of the skate boot and a pair of cutout areas to surround the same lateral supporting portions of the skate boot.