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7337558 Split sole dance shoe having enhanced flexibility and support  
A shoe includes a shoe upper made of flexible material, the shoe upper including a toe region, a heel region, a foot opening at the heel region, and an arch region extending between the toe region...
7254904 Toe shoe  
A toe shoe capable of providing support to a ballet dancer's foot while dancing en pointe. The toe shoe preferably includes a toe box in the toe of the toe shoe, an upper, and an outer sole....
7051458 High-heeled jazz dancing and character dancing shoe  
A high-heeled dancer's shoe providing the structural integrity to prevent bowing and to execute energetic character dancing steps and simultaneously maintaining the flexibility necessary to execute...
7051457 Formfitting protective footwear apparatus  
A formfitting protective footwear apparatus comprising, generally, a protective sheath that envelops all or a portion of the foot from the ankle forward. In all embodiments, the formfitting...
7036244 Rigid articulated Pointe shoe  
The invention is a Pointe shoe for ballet. It has a rigid mid-foot section and a rigid toe loop connected by a transverse axis joint located at the metatarsal-phalange joint (M-P). With the foot in...
6895693 Dance shoe  
The pointe show has an upper, a toe box and a split sole. The split sole has a front sole and a rear sole. The front sole may be located below the ball of the dancer's foot and the rear sole may be...
6857203 Pleatless ballet slipper  
A substantially pleatless ballet slipper has a non-elastic upper, and an elastic or stretchy toe piece affixed to the forward edge of the upper. The toe piece has a small amount of bunched material...
6826851 Angled heel/shoes/low-friction coalescent dance shoes  
A heel for a shoe includes a first relatively flat surface for contacting the ground when one is walking while wearing a shoe having the heel and a second relatively flat surface for contacting the...
6810603 Toe pad for ballet dancers  
A reversible toe pad used by dancers comprising a pad material and a bonded seamless fabric material. A fabric is bonded to the surface of a padding material on one side so as to form a reversible...
6729045 Tap device for clogging shoes  
A clogging shoe tap device having a first plate for attachment to a shoe, and a second plate pivotally attached to the first plate along a transverse line of attachment, the second plate also...
6711833 Tap shoe and fastening assembly and method for attaching tap to dance shoe  
A tap shoe assembly is disclosed wherein screws pass through the tap and an intermediate resilient composition material and into conically-shaped nuts embedded in the sole of the shoe.
6705026 Dance shoe  
A dance shoe is provided that includes a flexible upper and a toe box configured to surround at least a portion of a dancer's foot. The dance shoe further includes a viscoelastic padding layer that...
6691431 Apparatus and method for augmenting dancer's foot  
An apparatus and method for improving the appearance of a dancer's feet. By attaching a pad that has a curved top surface to the top of a dancer's foot, the shape of the top of the dancer's foot is...
6634121 Shoe with a sole comprising a forefoot part divided into at least two elements  
A shoe comprising a sole provided with at least one part ( 1; 5, 6 ) for supporting at least partially the forefoot, said part being divided into at least two elements ( 3,4; 3 A, 3 B, 4 B; 15...
6598317 Shoe tap protectors  
Removable tap covers for dancing shoes which can quickly and easily be placed on the taps to prevent accumulation of dirt and grime in the taps, yet which can quickly and easily be removed to allow...
6588124 Ballet shoe sole with gusset  
A ballet shoe that includes a front shoe upper which defines a front portion of the shoe, a rear shoe upper which defines a rear portion of the shoe, and a gusset located at the underfoot and...
6233846 Shoe, especially sports or dancing shoe  
The shoe has a sole which has a ball section and a heel, the heel having an open middle section under the heel of the foot which is bridged by a bridging element. The bridging element is rigid. The...
6151800 Cover for the upper of a dance shoe  
A stretch-on elastic removable cover for a tap dance shoe enables the shoe to be decoratively transformed in appearance. The cover, when snugly fitted on the shoe, conforms to the shape of the shoe...
6092306 Tap shoe taps cover system  
A tap shoe taps cover system for covering the taps of a tap shoe to permit a wearer of tap shoes to walk more quietly. The tap shoe taps cover system includes heel and ball tap covers each with...
6018888 Protective footwear for modern dance  
An item of footwear which functions as a foot protector for dancers is disclosed. The inventive protector comprises a pad. The pad has its periphery at least partially surrounded by an elastic...
5996251 Combination jazz dancing and character/tap dancing shoe  
An unusually versatile dance shoe usable for both jazz dancing as well as tap and character dancing combining the flexibility of a jazz dancing shoe and the support strength of a shoe used for...
5956868 Dance shoe with elastic midsection  
A shoe primarily for dance including separate front and rear portions connected at their respective undersides by a narrow width elastic strip extending between the opposing edges of the shoe...
5878440 Tap dance socks  
A tap dance sound producing apparatus (20) utilizes an attachment member (22) and sound producing members (24, 26). The attachment member preferably comprises a sock having a ground engaging...
5765300 Shoe activated sound synthesizer device  
A shoe activated sound synthesizer device that enables movement of a shoe to be translated into audible sounds. The sound synthesizer device consists of a shoe in which there is disposed at least...
5740618 Dynamic toe shoe box liner for a pointe shoe  
A dance shoe comprises a toe box having a dynamic foam pad located in at least one of the left and right side surfaces of the toe box and, possibly, the top of the toe box. The dynamic foam pad has...
5682689 Rotating cleats for athletic shoes  
A shoe having a selectively rotating cleat assembly mounted to the sole of the shoe below the ball of a wearer's foot. The rotating cleat assembly includes a core that mates with and is held in...
5682685 Dance shoe sole  
A dancer's shoe, slipper or the like having a stiff sole comprised of split front and rear soles separated at the arch. To enable the dancer to stand on pointe, the front sole is "cup" shaped with...
5649373 Shoe structure  
A novel shoe structure, particularly a ballet shoe, is provided in which an elongate flat leaf spring element is provided associated with the sole of the shoe structure. The elongate leaf spring...
5459948 Shoe with movable flap having ground engaging element  
A convertible shoe for multipurposes includes an upper and a sole attached to the upper. A flap is attached to the shoe and the flap has a ground engaging element disposed thereon. The flap has a...
5459946 Tap dance shoe and method for attaching tap to dance shoe  
A tap dance shoe and method for attaching a tap to a dance shoe includes securing a single T-nut in a fiber board and then installing the combined T-nut and fiber board assembly on the sole of the...
5257969 Ankle foot dorsiflexor/supporter  
A foot support will assist individuals with weakness or paralysis of dorsiflexion and eversion of the foot and extension of the toes, the condition commonly referred to as "foot drop." The foot...
5220735 Pointe shoe  
A pointe shoe is provided with a removable stiffening member 19 to enable inter alia the stiffeners of the shoe to be varied according to the characteristics of each chosen member 19, to replace...
5191726 Asymmetric ballet shoe and pair of such shoes  
Ballet shoe (2) comprising a sole (3, 6) to which is fixed a flexible upper (4) stiffened in a front part up to a substantially flat end (7) by a vamp (5) covered by said upper and adapted to...
5129165 Custom toe cap for ballet pointe shoe and method of weight distribution  
A silicone rubber based custom toe cap for ballet pointe shoes which is molded to fit the tips of relatively shorter toes inside a ballet pointe shoe so as to provide more even weight-bearing...
5111597 Dance shoe with toe support  
A dance shoe having a toe end and a heel end. The dance shoe has an outer sole which is constructed of a flexible material and an outer covering which is constructed of a flexible material...
5101579 Sound deadening ballet shoe  
A ballet dancer's shoe that reduces noise occurring when a ballet dancer bangs a toe portion of the shoe against the floor. The shoe comprises a shank and a shoe upper comprising a plurality of...
5035069 Ballet slipper and method of manufacturing a ballet slipper  
A ballet slipper and method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The slipper has an integral shank and toe box molded from a flexible thermoplastic polymeric material which can be adjusted by...
5001852 Tap-shoe tap-sound amplifying device  
In a preferred embodiment, a pair of tap shoes each having toe and heel taps, associated with each tap there being an audio-pickup transducer mounted one adjacent each tap, connected by...
4691453 Space skating shoe  
A shoe is provided in which spherical steel balls are rotatively mounted in the sole so as to allow the wearer to roll in any desired direction. A tool is also provided for removing the spheres as...
4616429 Disposable shoe cover  
There as disclosed a disposable shoe cover and method of continuously manufacturing the shoe covers from two source rolls of flat, flexible material, producing no scrap.
4583304 Ballet slipper  
A ballet slipper has a wedge shaped heel the front end of which is beneath the metatarsal arch and the rear surface of which is just behind the heel bone.
D282022 Toe cap for ballet shoes  
4519148 Exercise shoe  
An exercise shoe (10) has an upper (14) and a sole (18) fastened to the upper. The sole (18) has first and second impervious, surface gripping portions (20, 22). The portions (20, 22) are separated...
4513519 Adjustable shoe tap  
A dancing tap comprising three elements arranged in such a way as to require no external apparatus for assembly. There is recited a first plate-like body having a central through bore and multiple...
4463506 Taps for dancing  
Apparatus is disclosed for attachment to shoes to create tap dancing shoes, including heel and toe attachments. Each of the attachments has two pieces, one of which is fixedly attached to the shoe...
3963251 Articulated shoe sole with universal supportive wheel  
A first body for attachment to the undersole portion of a shoe is provided and includes front and rear marginal portions. A second body for underlying the heel portion of a shoe is disposed to the...
3204348 Device for dancing the twist  
3195244 Bowling shoes and methods for making the same  
3121287 Tap shoes and taps therefor  
3091043 Spinner attachment for shoes  
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