Title: Athletic shoe, especially tennis shoe

Abstract: Athletic shoes, particularly tennis shoes, are known which are provided with an ankle support in the zone of the arch of the foot (plantar arch) between the ball and the heel. In many such athletic shoes with ankle joint supports, the tread sole is fashioned with a corresponding constriction in the ankle region so that the inner ankle support is not shored up in the direction of the tread surface. To prevent such athletic shoes from buckling or bending flexurally in the ankle zone under high stresses, or even "break through", several discrete supporting profiles of varying heights are provided at the tread sole, the enveloping line of which on the free ends of these supporting profiles on the tread side lies at least approximately in the plane of the adjoining tread sole parts.

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Inventors: Dassler, Armin A. (Herzogenaurach, DE)

Application Number: 06/306864
Filing Date: 1981-09-29
Publication_date: 1983-08-23
Assignee: Dassler, Puma Sportschuh (DE)

Primary Class(es): 36/32R 36/114, 36/129
Other Classes: A43B5/10; A43B13/14; A43B5/00; A43B13/04
US Patent Ref:

3971145	July, 1976	Stegerwald	36/32R	Tennis shoe and sole therefor
4316335	February, 1982	Giese et al.	36/129	Athletic shoe construction
4319412	March, 1982	Muller	36/59C	Shoe having fluid pressure supporting means

Other Refs: DE2310459FR1034238

April, 1917	36/59R
July, 1953	36/32R

Primary Examiner: Schroeder, Werner H.
Assistant Examiner: Meyers, Steven N.
Attorney: Antonelli, Terry & Wands

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This application is a continuation-in-part application of my U.S. patent application Ser. No. 2