Flexible wooden insole and underlying support

Claim 1

A flexible insole to be placed within a shoe, boot or the like comprising in combination: a flexible substrate dimensioned to be received within the shoe, a plurality of wooden slats having bottom faces fastened to an upper surface of said substrate, each slat oriented parallel to one another and transverse to the longitudinal axis of the shoe, and each slat spaced from an adjacent slat, whereby upper faces of said slats come in direct contact with the bottom surface of a person's foot wearing the shoe and said slats can articulate one relative to another to accommodate foot flexure while allowing proper thermal aspiration of the foot, wherein said spaces between adajcent slats is constant for all slats, wherein top longitudinal edges of said wooden slats are provided with a contoured surface whereby articulation of adjacent slats precludes pinching of the skin of the foot supported thereon, and wherein said flexible substrates includes portions thereof interposed between adjacent side faces of said wooden slats.