Patents Assigned to Palidium, Inc.
  • Automated tightening shoe
    Patent number: 8904672
    Abstract: An automated tightening shoe with a single crisscrossed laces or closure panel and a tightening mechanism which operates in one direction to cause automatic tightening of the crisscrossed laces or closure panel 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. An actuating wheel partially projecting from the rear sole of the shoe provides a convenient and reliable actuating means for movement of the automated tightening mechanism in the tightening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Palidium Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory G Johnson
  • Automated tightening shoe
    Patent number: 8904673
    Abstract: An automated tightening shoe with a single crisscrossed laces or closure panel and a tightening mechanism which operates in one direction to cause automatic tightening of the crisscrossed laces or closure panel 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. An actuating wheel partially projecting from the rear sole of the shoe provides a convenient and reliable actuating means for movement of the automated tightening mechanism in the tightening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Palidium, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Johnson, Arthur J. Tombers
  • AUTOMATED TIGHTENING SHOE
    Publication number: 20130086816
    Abstract: An automated tightening shoe with a single crisscrossed laces or closure panel and a tightening mechanism which operates in one direction to cause automatic tightening of the crisscrossed laces or closure panel 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. An actuating wheel partially projecting from the rear sole of the shoe provides a convenient and reliable actuating means for movement of the automated tightening mechanism in the tightening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Palidium, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Johnson, Arthur J. Tombers