Patents Examined by Trucy Graveline
  • Patent number: 4642913
    Abstract: Sports shoes having a string passage aperture and a string passage ring, each of which are arranged at both sides of a forward opening of an upper cover, opposing to each other and along a longitudinal direction of the shoe in order to engage a shoe string and tightly close the forward opening, in which the string passage ring is adapted to engage the shoe string more smoothly as compared with the string passage aperture, each pair of the string passage rings disposed opposing to each other at both sides of the forward opening being arranged alternating with the pair of the string passage apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: ASICS Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hase, Toshio Shigi