{"id":1132,"date":"2008-07-15T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2008-07-15T07:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:56:05","slug":"martin-and-meeks-get-a-boot-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Martin And Meeks Get A Boot Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/meeksboot.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/meeksboot.jpg','popup','width=208,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/meeksboot-tm.jpg\" height=\"384\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Meeksboot\" \/><\/a>After three long years of waiting <strong>John Martin<\/strong> and <strong>Bobby Meek<\/strong>s finally get their patent for their &#8220;snowboard boot with liner harness. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/patents\/patog\/week25\/OG\/html\/1331-3\/US07386947-20080617.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patent No. 7,386,947<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. A sports boot comprising:<br \/>\nan outer shell having a semirigid sole and an upper attached to the sole;<br \/>\na harness assembly fixedly attached to the outer shell and disposed within the outer shell, the harness assembly including a flexible panel having left and right edges defining a gap therebetween and a plurality of cord keepers disposed on either side of the gap;<br \/>\na cord slidably engaging the cord keepers; and<br \/>\na tensioning mechanism that engages the cord to maintain a desired tension in the cord such that the left and right edges of the flexible panel are urged toward each other;<br \/>\na liner that is removably insertable into the outer shell such that the harness assembly flexible panel wraps about a portion of the liner;<br \/>\nwherein the tensioning mechanism is fixedly attached to one of the upper and the harness flexible panel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/patents\/patog\/week25\/OG\/html\/1331-3\/US07386947-20080617.html\" target=\"_blank\">US Patent Office<\/a><\/strong> via <strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/article\/1,5143,700243186,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deseret News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three long years of waiting John Martin and Bobby Meeks finally get their patent for their &#8220;snowboard boot with liner harness. Patent No. 7,386,947. 1. A sports boot comprising: an outer shell having a semirigid sole and an upper attached to the sole; a harness assembly fixedly attached to the outer shell and disposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}