Footwear devices

Abstract

A footwear device (15, 18, 19, 20, 50, 60,70, 80) has a body comprising one or more strips or sheets of material. Footwear device has an outerside (6) and a footwear contact underside (7). The one or more strips or sheets of material may be resiliently deformable material. An adhesive (8) may be disposed on the footwear contact underside (7).

1 . A footwear device having a body comprising at least one strip or sheet of material, said strip of material having an outerside and a footwear contact underside; wherein said material comprises resiliently deformable material, and wherein an adhesive is disposed on the footwear contact underside. 
     
     
         2 . The footwear device according to  claim 1  wherein said resiliently deformable material comprises rubber. 
     
     
         3 . The footwear device according to  claim 2 , wherein said rubber comprises natural rubber, polyurethane, or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) compounds. 
     
     
         4 . The footwear device according to  claim 2 , wherein said rubber comprises die cut rubber. 
     
     
         5 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein the underside of said strip of material, in an unstretched state, has a curved and/or stepped shaped profile corresponding substantially to the profile of a portion of an outerside of the footwear to which the footwear device underside is to be applied. 
     
     
         6 . The footwear device of  claim 5 , wherein said underside, in an unstretched state, has a substantially concave shape. 
     
     
         7 . The footwear device according to claim  claim 5 , wherein, in an unstretched state, at least a portion of said underside is shaped to have a profile corresponding substantially to the profile of the toe box of the footwear outerside and is nestable thereon. 
     
     
         8 . The footwear device of  claim 7 , wherein, in an unstretched state, at least a portion of said underside is shaped to have a profile corresponding substantially to a curved profile of the vamp of the footwear and is nestable thereon. 
     
     
         9 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of said footwear device, in an unstretched state, is shaped in the form of a truncated cap or cup and is nestable with the toe of the footwear. 
     
     
         10 . The footwear device of  claim 10 , wherein said truncated cap has a nose at one end and an open mouth at the opposite end, and wherein a tongue extends upwardly and rearwardly from an intermediate portion of said nose, and wherein wings extend substantially uninclined rearwardly from the nose on either side of said tongue, and wherein open spaces or perforations are located between said wings and said tongue. 
     
     
         11 . The footwear device of  claim 9 , wherein said truncated cap comprises a splayed hemispherical dome. 
     
     
         12 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein a backing layer releasably covers said adhesive. 
     
     
         13 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein said outerside has an upper portion and a lower portion, where said upper portion has a pattern or style resembling a style or pattern of the footwear upper/toe box and wherein said lower portion has a pattern or style resembling a pattern or style of the sole edge of the footwear. 
     
     
         14 . (canceled) 
     
     
         15 . (canceled) 
     
     
         16 . (canceled) 
     
     
         17 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein the outer side includes indentation, and optionally wherein the indentions comprise a repeating pattern. 
     
     
         18 . (canceled) 
     
     
         19 . (canceled) 
     
     
         20 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein the body comprises a planar sheet of 35-45 durometer die cut rubber. 
     
     
         21 . The footwear device according  claim 1 , wherein the body includes extending portions. 
     
     
         22 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , wherein the device comprises a fan shape with extending portions. 
     
     
         23 . The footwear device according to  claim 1  wherein the device comprises a substantially triangular shape. 
     
     
         24 . (canceled) 
     
     
         25 . (canceled) 
     
     
         26 . The footwear device according to  claim 1 , comprising beads embedded in the outerside of said footwear, and the outerside comprises raised and lowered parts. 
     
     
         27 . (canceled) 
     
     
         28 . (canceled) 
     
     
         29 . An item of footwear including thereon a footwear device according to  claim 1 .