Adjustable shoe insert to reduce heel spur pain

Claim 2

A shoe insert device for relieving the pain caused by pressure of a wearer''s heel spur, said device being adapted to fit inside the heel-supporting portion of a shoe, comprising a relatively thin base portion contoured to fit the shoe on its lower face and anatomically shaped to fit the bottom of a human foot on the upper face, said upper face having a movable member whose top surface is provided with an elongated trough-like depression; means for adjusting said movable member to a position selected to correspond to the position of a heel spur on the wearer''s heel; and a partial filler means for said depression removably attached within said depression.

Claim 3

a cylindrical disk fitting within the recess of said base portion and rotatably attached thereto, including means to selectively posItion said disk radially therein, the upper face of said disk having a diametrically disposed elongated tapering-walled depression extending at least partly across said disk; and

Claim 4

a cylindrical disk fitting within the recess of said base portion and rotatably attached thereto, including means to selectively posItion said disk radially therein, the upper face of said disk having a diametrically disposed elongated tapering-walled depression extending at least partly across said disk; and

Claim 5

A shoe insert device for relieving the pain caused by pressure of a wearer''s heel spur, said device being adapted to fit inside the heel-supporting portion of a shoe, comprising a relatively thin base portion contoured to fit the shoe on its lower face and anatomically shaped to fit the bottom of a human foot on the upper face, said upper face having a movable member whose top surface is provided with an elongated trough-like depression; means for adjusting said movable member to a position selected to correspond to the position of a heel spur on the wearer''s heel; and a closure member removably attached within said depression and shaped to level out the open portions of said depression in said movable member.

Claim 6

A shoe insert device for relieving the pain caused by pressure of a wearer''s heel spur, said device being adapted to fit inside the heel-supporting portion of a shoe, comprising a relatively thin base portion contoured to fit the shoe on its lower face and anatomically shaped to fit the bottom of a human foot on the upper face, said upper face having a movable member whose top surface is provided with an elongated trough-like depression; means for adjusting said movable member to a position selected to correspond to the position of a heel spur on the wearer''s heel; and a closure member removably attached within said depression and shaped to level out the open portions of said depression in said movable member.

Claim 7

A shoe insert device adapted to fit inside the heel-supporting portion of a shoe comprising

Claim 8

A shoe insert device adapted to fit inside the heel-supporting portion of a shoe comprising

Claim 9

a pair of spaced-apart filler pieces having flat top surfaces and contoured undersurfaces adapted to smoothly fit into the end portions of said depression, said pieces being separably secured by friction pins fitting into corresponding holes in the bottom of said depression.

Claim 10

a pair of spaced-apart filler pieces having flat top surfaces and contoured undersurfaces adapted to smoothly fit into the end portions of said depression, said pieces being separably secured by friction pins fitting into corresponding holes in the bottom of said depression.

Claim 11

The device defined in claim 2, in which there is also provided a flat-surfaced closure member fitting into the space between and over the inner ends of said filler pieces including friction fitting pins separably engaging corresponding holes in the bottom of the central portion of said trough.