US2013031808A1PendingUtilityA1

Shoe with push button (or squeezable) device to activate sound recording and LED's for entertainment, educational, teaching purposes or to enhance the theme of the shoe

Assignee: HOLNESS PATRICKPriority: Aug 4, 2011Filed: Aug 4, 2011Published: Feb 7, 2013
Est. expiryAug 4, 2031(~5 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Patrick Holness
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Abstract

When referring to “shoe” below, it is deemed to mean all types of footwear. Shoes having a push button or squeezable device on any part of the shoe (i.e. a buckle in the front of the shoe, on an ornament attached to the front of the shoe or in the top of the tongue of the shoe) which when pushed or squeezed triggers LEDs (of different colors preferably) and a sound recording teaching or educating or instructing the wearer on the alphabet, numbers, how to tie his/her shoelace, buckling his/her shoe and other educational, teaching or instructional topics or enhancing the theme of the shoe based on a cartoon character, movie character, book character, singer, actor, or nursery rhyme character. Perforations in the area the chip or device is stored permits a message stored in memory in the generator to be transmitted. The push button (squeezable) device is concealed by some material. In operation, when the device is pressed, pushed or squeezed, the LEDs are illuminated along with a sound recording of music and singing or sounds through a speaker. In use, the device can entertain by enhancing the theme of a shoe based on a cartoon character, movie character, book character, singer, actor, or nursery rhyme character or the device can instruct a child, toddler or infant on the alphabet, numbers, tying his/her shoelaces and other entertaining, teaching, educational and instructional topics. This invention refers to shoes and attachments primarily for children, preteens, infants and toddlers. The shoe includes a pressure activated tone generator/chip which is capable of storing and emitting abstract sounds, music, voice sounds and the like.

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1 ) Wherein a shoe is improved by incorporating a push button or squeezable device with speaker (and possibly LEDs), which is located on the shoe, with a trigger element contained within said shoe which emanates recorded sounds (music, voice, abstract sounds and the like) when the device is activated by the wearer with pressure by squeezing or pushing a mechanism on the device 
     
     
         2 ) Wherein the sounds emanating from the speaker comprise sounds which entertain, teach or educate or instruct the wearer on the alphabet, numbers, how to tie his/her shoelace, buckling his/her shoe and other educational, teaching or instructional topics or enhance the theme of the shoe based upon or inspired by a television character, cartoon character, movie character, book character, singer, actor, or nursery rhyme character or entertainer.

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