Shoe having stool function

Abstract

A shoe also usable as a stool is a so-called boot-shaped shoe. In the boot-shaped shoe, a circumference of a heel and a legging rear part of the boot shape sustains an upright posture made of a hard and strong material. A seating part is provided in a top part of the boot shape so as to project horizontally rearward, so that, when the person wears the boot-shaped shoe and squats down on the seating part, and the person is able to sit on the seating part as a stool.

1 . A shoe also usable as a stool, that is a so-called boot-shaped shoe, the boot-shaped shoe comprising:
 a front side of an upper part of the boot-shaped shoe, where a person's part from above an instep to a lower leg contacts, entirely opened as an opening part so that, when the person wears the boot-shaped shoe and squats down, the person's leg below a knee projects forward freely from the front opening part in the upper part of the boot shape, and the person can maintain an upright posture similar to a straightly standing posture without dragging forward a rear part of the boot shape, and   a circumference of a heel and a legging rear part of the boot shape sustaining an upright posture made of a hard and strong material, and   a seating part provided in a top part of the boot shape so as to project horizontally rearward, so that, when the person wears the boot-shaped shoe and squats down on the seating part, and the person is able to sit on the seating part as a stool as it is.   
     
     
         2 . A shoe also usable as a stool, that is a so-called boot-shaped shoe, the boot-shaped shoe comprising:
 a front side of an upper part of the boot-shaped shoe, where a person's part from above an instep to a lower leg contacts, entirely opened as an opening part,   a heel and a legging rear part made of a hard and strong material, and   a seating part provided in a top part of the boot-shaped shoe so as to project horizontally rearward,   wherein a lower end part of a tube made of a soft material similar to a tube part in an upper part of a rubber rain boot is provided inside the boot-shaped shoe so that a lower end part continues and seals to/with a circular part of the boot-shaped shoe, that opens around an ankle,   wherein the part of the shoe is made of a soft material continuing from a tiptoe side of the boot-shaped shoe so that the boot-shaped shoe has a dual structure of a soft part and a hard part to have a waterproof function similar to a rain boot.   
     
     
         3 . A shoe also usable as a stool, that is a so-called boot-shaped shoe, the boot-shaped shoe comprising:
 a front side of an upper part of the shoe, where a person's part from above an instep to a lower leg contacts, entirely opened as an opening part,   a heel and a legging rear part made of a hard and strong material, and   a seating part provided in a top part of the shoe so as to project horizontally rearward,   wherein an integral rear overlapping part is provided, the rear overlapping part being a thin plate made of a lightweight and strong material, such as an aluminum alloy, that can cover from the rear part of the boot-shaped shoe from a sole part below the heel in a rear part of the boot-shaped shoe to the seating part above the sole part so that the rear overlapping part conforms to the shape of the rear part of the boot-shaped shoe,   wherein the rear overlapping part is provided so as to be unseparatably slidable from the shoe horizontally in a front-to-rear direction, and, when the rear overlapping part is pulled rearward to slide, a top part of the rear overlapping part becomes a second seating part continuing to the seating part to expand a usable seating surface.   
     
     
         4 . A shoe also usable as a stool, that is a so-called boot-shaped shoe, the boot-shaped shoe comprising:
 a front side of an upper part of the shoe, where a person's part from above an instep to a lower leg contacts, entirely opened as an opening part,   a heel and a legging rear part made of a hard and strong material, and   a seating part provided in a top part of the shoe so as to project horizontally rearward,   wherein a sole part of the boot-shaped shoe is entirely or majorly opened,   wherein a part of the boot-shaped shoe from an instep part to an upper front part on a tiptoe side is opened as well penetrating therethrough in a vertical direction without providing anything, and   wherein a fastener, such as a belt or a shoelace is provided to hold the instep by hooking to the sides of the boot-shaped shoe so that the person can wear the boot-shaped shoe integrally with another arbitrary shoe including a sole after hooking the fastener.   
     
     
         5 . A shoe also usable as a stool, that is a so-called boot-shaped shoe, the boot-shaped shoe comprising:
 a front side of an upper part of the shoe,. where a person's part from above an instep to a lower leg contacts, entirely opened as an opening part,   a heel and a legging rear part made of a hard and strong material, and   a seating part provided in a top part of the shoe so as to project horizontally rearward,   wherein a bar-shaped leg part is fixedly provided in a vertical direction to a lower surface of the seating part provided in a rear part of the top part of the boot-shaped shoe so that a lower end part of the leg part touches the ground surface behind the heel of the boot-shaped shoe to increase stability at the time of sitting on the seating part,   wherein the integrally-fixed seating part and leg part are vertically slidable for several centimeters at a rear part of the shoe along a rear part of the shoe, and the integrally-fixed seating part and leg part are constantly held after sliding upwardly by a shape memory member, such as rubber and a spring, so that a lower end part of the leg part is pulled up from the ground surface to help the person's walking except when the person is sitting on the boot-shaped shoe as a stool.