Apparatus for determining a foot size

US4395826A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bidegain S.A. · FR

Inventors

• Pierre Bidegain · Pau, FR
• Georges C. Bidegain · Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, FR
• Rolf Baumann · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Dieter Baumann · Greven, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 1981
• Grant date: Aug 2, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 25, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01B5/025
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus is disclosed for determining the shoe size corresponding to a foot, the apparatus is of the type including a foot rest adapted to recieve the foot to be measured and a measuring tape extending transverse to the foot rest, which is fixed at a first end relative to the foot rest, forms a loop over the latter, and is movable relative to the foot rest at its second end to tighten the loop about the circumference of the foot to be measured, and a reading point which is fixed relative to said first end of the measuring tape and is arranged opposite markings which are movable together with the second end of the measuring tape. The device is improved by providing additional reading points fixedly associated with the one reading point and a movable chart carrier which is coupled with the second end of said measuring tape and arranged adjacent to all reading points to receive the markings.