Abstract: A cushioned boot attachment system for stalking game adapted for use in association with hunting boots, each boot having a heel and a toe, the apparatus including at least two attachments, each comprising: a boot sleeve formed in a generally box shaped configuration with an open top section, an open front section, and a rear wall, two side walls and a bottom wall, the walls being formed contiguously with each other and including a lining with cushioned material, a user's boot being positionable within each sleeve with the heel against the rear wall and the toe positioned through the open front section, the top section of the sleeve including a shoelace positioned therethrough, the top section including shoe lace coupling devices to facilitate tightening of the apparatus snugly around a user's feet.

Abstract: A sand soccer boot with a soft foam elastomer layer having an inner layer, an outer layer, a lower portion, an upper portion, and an ankle portion. The ankle portion and the upper portion integrally form an open recess for insertion of a foot. The open recess has an elastic foam forming ankle support thereattached. The ankle support serves to conform to a user's ankle to prevent sand from entering. A leather outer layer has an inner surface, an outer surface, a lower portion, an upper portion, and an ankle portion. The inner surface is secured to the outer layer of the soft foam elastomer layer. An elastomer sole has an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface is secured to the outer surface of the lower portion of the leather outer layer.

Abstract: A sole construction for use with a boating shoe or the like comprises an outsole having a multiplicity of wave-like incisions in a traction area. The incisions are each in the form of a flattened sine wave and extend generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the sole. A plurality of straight incisions intersect the wave-like incisions and extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sole. The sole may further include inner and outer traction areas in which a plurality of incisions intersect wave-like incisions extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shoe, with the straight incisions extending substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A boot for recreational exercise which is equipped with a pneumatic ball spring. The ball is configured as a first semi-ovoid segment and a second smaller semi-ovoid segment which intersect at a minimum dimension. This minimum dimension receives an inwardly directed ledge which is captured by the fully inflated ball to secure the ball to its retainer. The retainer is in turn, secured to the bottom of the boot platform by adjustable dovetail members to permit the ball to be adjusted under the center of gravity of the wearer. The platform has a clamshell attaching member which secures a portion of the boot's weight to the calf of the wearer. The clamshell mechanism limits rotation about the ankle to .+-.15.degree. and restricts rotation of the foot about the axis of the leg and foot to reduce the potential of injury to the wearer.

Abstract: A levered footwear to provide a manipulating force to an aquatic board is described. The footwear has a rigid structure extending to the rear of the heel of the wearer, which is attached to a flexible member covering a portion of the wearer's foot. An adjustable strapping holds the flexible member in place on the wearer's foot.

Abstract: A hunter's shoe for concealing the presence of a hunter by absorbing airborne noises caused by the contact of the shoes with ground objects such as fallen branches, twigs and leaves. In the first aspect of the invention, a detachable sound absorber is combined with a conventional hunter's shoe. The sound absorber is comprised of a heel absorber, a sole absorber joined to the heel absorber, a flexible heel pad joined to the lower surface of the heel absorber and extending around the perimeter of the heel absorber, a flexible sole pad joined to the lower surface of the sole absorber and extending around the perimeter of the sole absorber; an ankle strap attached to the heel absorber and a toe strap attached to the sole absorber. The heel and sound absorber is comprised of rigid housings joined together by a flexible member and filled with a sound absorbing material. In the second aspect of the invention, a sound absorber is made integral with a hunter's shoe.

Abstract: A sound proof and slip proof cover for soles of sportsmen's shoes comprising a resilient sole having a laminated composition comprising a plurality of layers of foamed material attached together, the bottom layer being made up of a soft foamed material and the top layer being made up of a tougher foamed material, and attaching means to assist in holding the sole to the bottom of the sportsmen's shoes comprising a plurality of straps with loops at the terminal end, and cord means for being passed through the loops and tieing the cord ends together to hold the sole on the sportsmen's shoes.

Abstract: A noise suppressing attachment for a hunter's shoe or boot includes a flexible depending wall removably secured to the perimeter of the shoe or boo sole by a Velcro fastener. The wall, in combination with the sole and surface of the earth, forms a closed chamber trapping the sound of crushed leaves or twigs when stepped on by the hunter.

Abstract: A slip-resistant shoe sole comprising an outsole layer having a bottom surface defining a region of contact between the sole and the ground, the outsole layer bearing a plurality of channels opening onto the bottom surface to define a pattern of elongated gaps across the contact region, the ratio of the area of the gaps to the surface area of the contact region and the configuration of the gaps being arranged to effectively cause liquid between the contact region and the ground to be conducted away while enhancing the slip resistance produced by the contact region engaging the ground.

Abstract: There is described a novel therapeutic weight dispersing shoe sole having an extended width sole surface under the forward half of the foot with skates along both the medial and lateral extensions of such extended sole and preferably with an added heel lift. The therapeutic weight dispersing shoe sole has been found to reduce pressure exerted in a limited area of the plantar surfaces of the foot and to be especially useful for wearers subject to insensitivity of the feet.

Abstract: A shoe that includes an outsole having a plurality of gripping portions, the locus of the gripping portions defining a path extending from the outermost portion of the shoe below the small toe generally toward the ball of the foot at the large toe, with the portions contacting the ground sequentially along the path as the front portion of the outsole sets down. Also disclosed in providing a shoe outsole with a plurality of channels which have a first narrow region having a first width and an adjacent region having a larger width so as to permit deformable foreign matter such as food that collects in the first region to be discharged into the second region, which is sufficiently wider than the first region as to cause discharge of the matter.

Abstract: A running shoe is provided for running along a shore line on a beach and consists of heel and toe cleat structures attached to a sole of a waterproof upper that will give increased traction and stability to the shoe.

Abstract: An inflated shoe is provided and consists of a hollow pneumatic circular tube, a protective bottom member for engaging the ground, a cushion member within the tube and a shoe removably attached to the cushion member.

Abstract: There is provided a mine-field shoe which is an inflatable multi-compartment air cushion having when inflated, at least one flexible substantially flat, ground-contacting surface, at least one rigid tread member attachable to an upper surface of the air cushion, and means for attaching the mine-field shoe to a boot. Each of the compartments of said air cushion communicates with at least one other compartment.

Abstract: A snowshoe or racket is provided comprising a frame with T cross section having a pivot pin on which is hingedly mounted a pivoting structure for fixing different sized shoes. An intermediate spacer connects together the side members of the frame below a central lattice forming a perforated bearing surface. A fin extends the outer side member outwardly over the whole of its length and forms a sliding bearing surface. The pivoting structure comprises a rigid base plate with a front stirrup piece and a rear heel piece.

Abstract: A pair of shoes for the sport of curling, according to the invention, has a first one of the shoes developed as a sliding shoe with a sole or a sole surface having a sliding area comprised of at least supporting areas of a material with a low coefficient of friction with respect to ice, and the other shoe formed as a run-up and drag shoe having a sole or a sole surface with at least tread areas of a material that has a high coefficient of friction with respect to ice, at least relative to that of the first shoe, and at least an outer surface of the toe cap of the upper being formed of a material that has a low coefficient of friction with respect to ice.

Abstract: Unique front expanding webs and rear expanding web increase the surface area for a boot or boot add-on for walking on sand, mud, snow, marshes, or other soft material. The front expanding webs and rear expanding web further provide load bearing support to the boot or boot add-on.

Abstract: A platform is supported around the periphery of its under surface by a pneumatic tube cushion secured to the platform by strap loops. The top side of the platform is equipped with adjustable means of securement to the shoe or boot of the user. Vent holes in mid portions of the platform prevent suction effects under the platform when the foot is lifted. The device is collapsible into a compact package for shipment or storage.

Abstract: A beach sandal of improved comfort and enhanced safety comprises a sole provided with a plurality of perforations whose openings in the upper and lower surfaces of the sole are displaced or whose middle portions are displaced from their outer portions. The perforations provide an escape for the water drag on the wearer's foot and consequently make wading through water easier. Because the perforations are not formed perpendicularly, when the wearer happens to step on a sharp object such as a shell, the possibility of the object sliding through one of the perforations and reaching the foot is remote.

Abstract: A boot or a boot add-on for walking on sand, mud, snow, marshes, or other soft material with moveable wings that open to increase the surface area which prevents sinking into the soft material.

Abstract: An article of footwear for walking on sheet ice and the like without slipping has self-deicing non-skid sole structure comprising a conventional flexible sole with a flexible aluminum flyscreen substantially loose covering over it, secured around the periphery of the sole; for preventing slipping on hard, smooth tile floors and the like are two other features, either or both of which may be provided: soft "Silicone" type rubber pads adhering to and flexing with selected portions of the flexible aluminum flyscreen loose covering for traction on such hard surfaces and also an all around downward projection of a soft trim strip of "Silicone" type rubber for the same purpose.

Abstract: A beach shoe or sandal for walking on sandy or porous surfaces, comprising a flat sole surface in the general shape of the user's foot, which has a projecting, peripheral wall, formed perpendicular to the sole surface that terminates in a flat rim for contact with the sand. The projecting wall defines a cavity in the bottom surface of the sole, so that the sand becomes compacted when walked upon by the user. Suitable straps are secured to the top of the sole surface, for coupling to the user's foot.

Abstract: A sole and heel construction such as used on overshoes, boots or shoes having a resilient planar body with a plurality of spaced thin fins that extend transversely across the body. The fins are evenly spaced and uniform in width throughout. All fins are identical and are inclined relative to a horizontal plane such that any weight applied to the sole compresses the fins to trap air between adjacent fins to minimize mud build-up.