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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7062868 | Protective toecap, particularly for safety shoes A protective toecap particularly for safety shoes, which has the particularity that it comprises a body (1) made of aluminum alloy with an elongation coefficient of more than 15%. The body (1) delimits a space with a rear opening and a lower opening an... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7032329 | Composite reinforced toecap and a method of making the same A composite reinforced toecap for a shoe includes multiple composite fiber reinforcement layers and a larger fiber layer laminated between and extending out from the composite fiber reinforcement layers. The fiber layer is made of continuos-strands. The composite fi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7017286 | Steel toe shoe construction Footwear and its method of construction are provided. An insole forepart is attached to the bottom of the sock liner. An upper having a vamp lining with a toe part is provided where toe part is stitched to the sock liner such that the vamp lining and the sock liner ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6907681 | Resin safety shoe toe cap A resin safety shoe toe cap made from a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin, wherein the toe cap resin safety shoe toe cap is constituted from rising parts comprising a front end rising part 1, a big toe side rising part 2 and a little toe side rising... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6598323 | Toe protectors A thin, non-metallic toe protector comprising short particles and method of making same. The particles are preferably less than 0.25 inches long. The preferred toe cap has a thickness of preferably less than 0.165 inches and a reinforcing matrix. The toe ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6412195 | Protective footwear for use with running shoes, sneakers A one-piece toe plate is removably placeable inside the toe box of a shoe such as a running shoe, a sneaker or the like to protect the wearer's toes. The footwear can thus be used in a work situation requiring foot protection, but will be comfortable and ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6367170 | Plastic toe cap and method of making A toe cap is a reinforcement member made of thermoset structural composite material with a tensile strength of 30,000 psi, a tensile modulus of 2.5×106 psi, a compression strength of 35,800 psi, a specific gravity of 1.85, and a Barcol hardnes... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6161313 | Metatarsal safety guard for footwear A metatarsal guard for footwear comprises an arched body which covers a dorsal surface of a wearer's metatarsal foot area. The arched body has lateral bottom edges for engaging a footwear sole to transmit loads from the arched body to the footwear sole. S... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6159589 | Injection molding of long fiber reinforced thermoplastics An injection molded fiber-impregnated thermoplastic composite material comprising a plastic polymer matrix wherein the fibers are sufficiently interwoven and entangled in said polymer matrix to provide improved resistance to mechanical loading, and wherei... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5832633 | Toe cap for footwear A toe cap includes an open end and a close end. The toe cap has a middle layer being a netted layer and having a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the close end, a fourth layer, a third, a second and a first composite fiber layer respectively disposed on... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5667857 | Toe puff for safety shoe The present invention provides a molding sheet material having a sandwich structure produced by preparing a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer (A) reinforced with a woven fabric or a knitted web and a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer (B)... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5331751 | Molded plastic toe cap A toe cap for a protective shoe is injection molded utilizing a fiber-filled plastic resin having a high loading of relatively long fibers. A preferred material is glass-filled polyurethane having fibers predominantly of a length in the range of 0.25 inch... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5210963 | Molded plastic toe cap A toe cap for a protective shoe is injection molded utilizing a fiber-filled plastic resin having a high loading of relatively long fibers. The toe cap is constructed to provide a controlled vertical collapse of the body under a vertical load imposed on t... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5163198 | Process for manufacturing a plastic shoe A plastic shoe has a steel cap (3) which has a cushion (4) in the upper region inside the shoe. In its other regions the steel cap (3) is surrounded on the inside and outside by plastic foam which forms the upper (1) and the bottom (2) of the plastic shoe... | 11/17/1992 |
| 4862606 | Toe guard for footwear, process for its manufacture, and footwear so made An improved toe guard for footwear and footwear so made are disclosed. The toe guard is non-metallic, reducing thereby risks associated with electrical shocks and the detonation of land mines. Preferably, the final composite from which the toe guard is mo... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4656761 | Footwear reinforcement A footwear reinforcement which comprises a toe cap portion having a curved end wall which curves rearwardly at the top into an upper wall and which curves on opposite sides into opposed side walls integral with the upper wall, a bottom wall integral with ... | 04/14/1987 |
