US 7,549,239 B2
Sports shoe having movable ground engaging elements
Andrea Drollinger, Schönblickstrasse 39, D-75331 Engelsbrand (Germany); and Frank Drollinger, Schönblickstrasse 39, D-75331 Engelsbrand (Germany)
Appl. No. 10/532,277
PCT Filed Oct. 22, 2003, PCT No. PCT/EP03/11674
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 21, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/037030, PCT Pub. Date May 06, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 102 49 995 (DE), filed on Oct. 26, 2002; application No. 102 61 907 (DE), filed on Dec. 23, 2002; and application No. 103 10 975 (DE), filed on Mar. 13, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0032092 A1, Feb. 16, 2006
Int. Cl. A43B 5/02 (2006.01); A43C 15/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 36—134  [36/127] 52 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Sports shoe, comprising:
a shoe upper,
a sole,
at least one shaped support element rotatably mounted to said sole,
a sole centerpoint,
a sole heel portion,
downwardly projecting ground-engaging elements attachable to said at least one shaped support element,
a geometric axis line perpendicular to said sole and passing through the sole at a point between said sole centerpoint and said sole heel portion,
said at least one shaped support element being rotatable with respect to said sole only in a single plane and only about said geometric axis,
at least one ground engaging element attachable to said at least one shaped support element ahead of said sole centerpoint in a forefoot portion of the sole,
and at least one ground engaging element being attachable to said at least one shaped support element behind said sole centerpoint in a heel portion of the sole.