A disposable, low friction, breathable bootie is provided that accommodates the shape and size of a human foot. The bootie is made from a thin, flexible polymer sheet-like material in a generally tubular form. The bootie has a foot portion, a lower leg portion, and an ankle portion therebetween. The bootie includes a series of air vents in the foot portion and lower leg portion to provide airflow to the foot, while such vents are located to avoid key friction points between the foot and the ski boot during the donning and doffing processes. The bootie facilitates donning and doffing a ski boot. The vents provide breathability while the bootie is worn within the ski boot.

An insole/sole structure contains: a top pad, two massage column modules, a form pad, and a bottom pad. The top pad includes at least one accommodation groove. A respective one of the at least one massage column module includes a holding portion and multiple flexible massaging columns. The respective one massage column module is connected on the top pad by using the holding portion. The multiple flexible massaging columns are held on the holding portion to correspond to a profile of a respective one accommodation groove. A profile of the foam pad and a profile of the bottom pad correspond to a profile of the top pad, such that when the foam pad and the bottom pad are connected, the foam pad and the bottom pad are closed, and the respective one massage column module is limited between the top pad and the foam pad.

A sole for sports shoes is provided including a base or tread component, a top or midsole component and a least one intermediate or elastic cushioning component. Advantageously, the sole if able to provide high cushioning, elastic yield and stability thanks to the mechanical or structural characteristics of the sole.

Provided is a shoe sole, wherein ventilation grooves recessed in the thickness direction of the shoe sole are formed in the upper surface part, the shoe sole has a forefoot portion that has an air intake port formed in at least one of a medial side wall and a lateral side wall in the side wall part to be in communication with the ventilation grooves and draw air from outside into the ventilation grooves, the shoe sole has a midfoot portion that has an air outlet port formed in at least one of the medial side wall and the lateral side wall to be in communication with the air intake port through the ventilation grooves and discharge air in the ventilation groove to the outside, and at least a part of the ventilation grooves constitutes an air intake groove extending obliquely rearward from the air intake port.

A bicycle pedal cover system for covering and protecting footwear from inclement weather, mostly rain. The water proof device simply clips on to the cycle pedals, covering the footwear and protecting the shoe from getting wet while cycling. The device is slightly larger than the footwear and allows the foot of a user to be easily inserted without impeding any movement whatsoever. Further, the device is able to collapse into a flat object and be mounted to a seat post of a bike for convenient storage and portability.

An embroidered vamp process includes the following steps: (1) designing a vamp manufacture drawing by a computer; (2) according to the design drawing of step (1), cutting different pieces of cloth into base fabric of the vamp and a splice component of the vamp respectively by a laser; (3) typesetting the splice component cut in step (2) on the base fabric, then embroidering the splice component on the base fabric according to an embroidery thread pattern of the drawing by an embroidery machine; (4) cutting out the redundant base fabric of the vamp along the edge the splice component by, once again, the laser, forming the vamp of the finished product shoe model. An embroidered vamp comprises a vamp body, said vamp body comprising the base fabric and the splice component, said splice component being embroidered on the surface of base fabric by embroidery thread.

A sole structure for an article of footwear comprises a base component and a wedge component. The base component has a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region, and includes a forward base portion and a rearward base portion. The forward base portion of the base component includes a forward lateral flange and a forward medial flange. The wedge component extends from the midfoot region to the heel region and includes a forward portion having a rearward medial flange and a rearward lateral flange. The forward lateral flange of the base component abuts the rearward lateral flange of the wedge component. The forward medial flange of the base component abuts the rearward medial flange of the wedge component.

There is also provided a self-sustainable body-cooling garment for cooling a body portion of a human or an animal adapted to use the air pumping footwear and a cooling system for cooling the human or animal's body. There is provided a footwear comprising an air pump adapted to pump air when worn by a human or an animal during a pedestrian movement and to store or direct the pumped air for use by a cooling system for cooling the pumped air and using the cooled air for cooling the human or the animal. There is also provided a cooling system comprising an air pump adapted to be embedded within a footwear and a nozzle adapted to cool air pumped using the footwear when worn by a human or animal during a pedestrian movement.

A sensor system is adapted for use with an article of footwear and includes an insert member including a first layer and a second layer, a port connected to the insert and configured for communication with an electronic module, a plurality of force and/or compression sensors on the insert member, and a plurality of leads connecting the sensors to the port.

Shoe having a transversal air passageway comprising a shoe sole (4) and an upper (1) and a lower (3) pliable parts for enclosing a foot of the user of the shoe, wherein the shoe further comprises a peripheral band (2) formed in the shape of a closed line and formed in a resilient material, wherein the upper and lower parts are attached by their outer edges to opposing faces of said peripheral band along its length, and wherein the lower part is attached to the shoe sole in both the front and back parts of the shoe, but not in a part between the front and back parts of the shoe, such that a transversal air passageway (5) is formed from the medial part to the lateral part of the shoe, between the front and the back parts of the shoe, and between the shoe sole and the lower part.