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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2003
Applicant:
Grant Verdun Delgatty, Studio City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Grant Verdun Delgatty, Studio City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vans, Inc., Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A43B003/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A shoe construction including a removable vamp. In an implementation, the shoe includes an outsole, an upper attached to the outsole, the upper including an elastic material that spans a throat area, a removable vamp, a throat fastening means, and a vamp fastening means. The throat fastening means and the vamp fastening means provide a two-point connection that stabilizes the removable vamp so that it remains in the correct position during wear of the shoe. A customizing kit may be provided to permit a consumer to customize the vamp, for example, by applying a heat transfer image to the vamp.