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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2003
Gerard Valat, Aix en Provence, FR;
Cedric Ragot, Paris, FR;
Gerard Valat, Aix en Provence, FR;
Cedric Ragot, Paris, FR;
Random Design, Aix en Provence, FR;
Abstract
A footwear designed for a plurality of sports for protecting a user's feet and legs includes a first rigid shell defining a body () adapted to receive a user's foot and extending along an elongation direction (); a second rigid shell defining an upper () designed to receive the user's leg and extending substantially along a rising direction (); an articulation (), linking the body to the upper, having specific mechanical strength characteristics. A range of articulations having different mechanical strength characteristics can be fixed to the first and second shells to accommodate the physiological differences between the various uses of such footwear articles and/or to the differences between the various sports for which the footwear articles may be used.