US 2011 02031.35A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2011/0203135 A1 DelCielo (43) Pub. Date: Aug. 25, 2011 (54) APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STROBEL (51) Int. Cl. HIGH-HEEL SHOES A43B 23/02 (2006.01) A43B 23/07 (2006.01) (76) Inventor: Alex DelCielo, Howard Beach, NY (52) U.S. Cl. ............................................................ 36/47 (US) (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl. No.: 13AO21,472 A shoe and a process for fabricating high-heeled shoes or y x- - - 9 pumps incorporates Strobel technology having an upper outer (22) Filed: Feb. 4, 2011 material with a lower end region of the outer material located a rs in a lower upper end region, an upper lining material, which is arranged on the inner side of the upper outer material, Related U.S. Application Data incorporates a functional layer and has a lower end region of the lining material, the end region of the lining material hav (60) Provisional application No. 61/306,626, filed on Feb. ing a lining edge that is not covered by the upper outer 22, 2010. material, and a connecting band, resulting in a comfortable high-heeled shoe that can be worn all day and reduces foot Publication Classification stress over conventional high-heeled shoes. Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 1 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 2 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 3 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 4 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 & Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 5 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 6 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 7 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 8 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 9 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 10 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 11 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 14 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 S Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 15 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 16 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 17 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 19 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 20 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 24 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 25 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 26 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 28 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 29 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 30 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 31 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 32 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 33 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 34 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 35 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 36 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 Patent Application Publication Aug. 25, 2011 Sheet 37 of 37 US 2011/0203135 A1 & S S x: US 2011/0203135 A1 Aug. 25, 2011 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STROBEL 0013 (c) to provide a high-heel shoe that is wearable for HIGH-HEEL SHOES many hours of the day in comfort; 0014 (d) to provide shoe with impact absorption charac CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED teristics to lessen joint stress when ambulating; APPLICATIONS 00.15 (e) to provide a new shoe sole design that is aestheti 0001. This non-provisional patent application claims a cally pleasing in fashion; and priority benefit to U.S. Provisional application No. 61/301, 0016 (f) to provide a footwear product that has a signifi 626 entitled 'Apparatus and Method for Strobel high-heel cantly lower import US Tariff Schedule than conventional shoes' filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office foot wear. on Feb. 4, 2010 by a common Inventor to this instant appli 0017. Further objects and advantages of my invention will cation, Alex DelCielo. Further the above named Provisional become apparent from a consideration of the drawings and Application in its entirety is hereby incorporated by refer ensuing description. CCC. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY 0018 FIGS. 1-37 are various photographs showing the SPONSORED RESEARCH method and construction techniques of a Strobel high-heeled 0002. Not Applicable shoe. REFERENCE TO APPENDIX DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 0003) Not Applicable 0019 While the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, FIELD OF THE INVENTION various modifications will be apparent to and might readily be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the 0004. This invention relates to the construction of pumps Scope and spirit of the present invention. Accordingly, it is not or high-heeled shoes using Strobel technology. intended that the scope of the claims appended hereto be limited to the description as set forth herein, but, rather, that BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION the claims be broadly construed. 0005 New, useful and aesthetically pleasing materials are 0020. The high-heeled shoe, or a shoe whose heel is higher constantly being sought out, discovered and applied to foot than the toe, is a matter of contentious and heated discussion. wear. Although Strobel technology has been known for use on Shoes in general have typically served as markers of gender, other foot wear such as flats, it has not been previously used class, race, and ethnicity—and both the foot and the shoe have in the construction of pumps or high-heeled shoes. Strobel been imbued with powerful phallic and fertility symbols as technology has very desirable qualities for application in evidenced in the contemporary practice of tying shoes to a pumps such as comfort, reduced foot stress, reduced impact newlywed couple's car. No other shoe, however, has gestured forces and shock absorption. toward leisure, sexuality, and Sophistication as much as the 0006 Thus there is a need for high-heeled shoes having high-heeled shoe. Fraught with contradiction, heels paradoxi Strobel technology incorporated into the construction cally inhibit movement in order to increase it, at least in thereof. appearance. Standing in heels, a woman presents herself 0007 Such a product and or method of producing such already half-walking while at the same time reducing the product is heretofore unknown to the Inventor. In general this length of her step, fostering the illusion of speed while Sug new product and method have the potential for creating gesting the promise of an immanent fall. The higher and more unique foot wear with extremely comfortable shoes, which unstable the heel, the more clearly these contradictions are absorb unwanted and detrimental walking or running impacts expressed (Kunzle 2004). Doctors and scholars alike have to a consumer's joints or skeletal structure. Ambulatory argued about the physical and cultural effect, both positive health and safety are increased with a more an attractive, and negative, that heels have had not only on women, but on comfortable, and longer wearable shoe. Society as a whole. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Precursors to the High-Heeled Shoe 0008 High-heeled shoes are famous for their looks but 0021 Most of the lower class in ancient Egypt walked also for their discomfort. A new type of construction using barefoot, but figures on murals dating from 3500 B.C. depict Strobel techniques renders a more comfortable shoe. an early version of shoes worn mostly by the higher classes. These were leather pieces held together with lacing that was OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES often arranged to look like the symbol of "Ankh, which represents life. But there are also some depictions of both 0009. The primary purpose of this invention is to fabricate upper-class males and females wearing heels, probably for a unique high-heel shoe incorporating Strobel technology. ceremonial purposes. Egyptian butchers also wore heels, to 0010. Accordingly, several objects and advantages of our help them walk above the blood of dead beasts. In ancient invention are: Greece and Rome, platform sandals called kothorni, later 0011 (a) to integrate Strobel technology into high-heeled known as buskins in the Renaissance, were shoes with high shoes; wood or cork soles that were popular particularly among 0012 (b) to provide a higher degree of comfort than pre actors who would wear shoes of different heights to indicated viously known in high-heeled shoes; varying Social status or importance of characters. In ancient US 2011/0203135 A1 Aug. 25, 2011 Rome, sex trade was not illegal and female prostitutes were tuary laws in Venice that banned the wearing of chopine-style readily identified by their high heels (Wilson 2005). platform shoes as early as the 1430s. 0022. Chopines, or platform shoes, were created in Turkey 0028 High-heeled shoes quickly caught on with the fash in the 1400s, and were popular throughout Europe until the ion-conscious men and women of the French court, and spread to pockets of nobility in other countries.