Abstract: The shoe consists of a shell (1) made of synthetic plastics material and has a bellows-like corrugation on the surface of the shell (1) in the area (2) of the roots of the toes. Ridges (3) and furrows (4) extending transversely to the longitudinal direction are provided, which, when viewed from above, are seen to be arranged asymmetrically and run backward towards the outside (10) of the foot. (FIG. 3).

Abstract: A ski boot comprises a boot leg linked to a boot shell for free pivotal movement and a device for delimiting the pivotal movement of the boot leg formed of a resilient and damping element which is pivotally fixed between the boot leg and the boot shell on the boot leg and on the boot shell.

Abstract: The buckle for fastening together the parts of a shoe comprises a tightening lever (1), which consists substantially of two parts (2, 3), which are displaceable relative to each other in the longitudinal direction of the tightening lever (1) and are guided relative to each other. One part (2) of the tightening lever is pivoted to the outside surface of the shoe and is adapted to be connected to a tensile element (15) so that the latter will be tensioned by a pivotal movement of the part (2) of the tightening lever (1). The tightening lever (1) ist locked in its closed position in that its second part (3) is displaced beyond the hinge pin (9) for the tightening lever (1) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: Shoe, particularly ski shoe, with a cup covering the front part of the foot and having a slot in the area of the instep, the edges of which slot can be pressed against each other by means of a tightening device, characterized by the fact that the tightening device has a pulling element going through the two slot edges which rests against the cup at the inner side of the cup edge being placed in the inside and is connected with a tightening element resting against the outer side of the outer cup edge and that an instep plate is connected with the pulling element in such a manner that its level is adjustable.

Abstract: An inner shoe for skiing boots or for use with shellike uppers of skiing boots, which inner shoe comprises a wall which consists at least in part of porous, e.g., foamed, particularly closed-cell elastic material, preferably plastics material, such as polyurethane, polyisoprene or polybutadiene, characterized in that the wall is peripherally entirely closed and has above the sole adjacent to the heel and/or instep of the foot portion which extends as far as to the upper edge of the inner shoe and has in the peripheral direction a higher extensibility, than the remaining portions of said wall, and in that that portion of said wall which has a higher extensibility is divided into laminations, which extend transversely to the peripheral direction and are joined in alternation on the inside and outside of the inner shoe to form accordion folds.