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Automated tightening shoe

US7661205B2 · kind B2 · utility

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15Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 14, 2007
Grant dateFeb 16, 2010
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 11, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA43C11/14
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An automated tightening shoe with crisscrossed laces and a tightening mechanism which operates in one direction to cause automatic tightening of the crisscrossed laces to tighten the shoe about a wearer's foot, and which can be released easily so that the shoe can be removed from the wearer's foot.

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