Shoe heel cover

Abstract

There is provided a shoe heel cover readily applicable, for example, to commercially available shoes. A shoe heel cover has a configuration including a fitting section detachably fitted to the heel section of a shoe formed of a shoe body and a heel section. The shoe heel cover further includes a latching section that latches to a stepped section formed between the shoe body and the heel section.

1 . A shoe heel cover for a shoe formed of a shoe body and a heel section, comprising:
 a fitting section detachably fitted to the heel section.   
     
     
         2 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , further comprising a latching section that latches to a stepped section formed between the shoe body and the heel section. 
     
     
         3 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein the shoe heel cover comprises one or more suckers at least in a bottom surface section of the fitting section. 
     
     
         4 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein the shoe heel cover comprises a sucker having an inverted scale of a fish on a side surface of the fitting section. 
     
     
         5 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein the fitting section is further provided with means for joining the fitting section to the heel section of the shoe. 
     
     
         6 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , further comprising an arm that latches to the shoe body. 
     
     
         7 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the fitting section has a bottom surface section and a side surface section, and   an air groove through which air travels from the bottom surface section to the side surface section is formed in the fitting section.   
     
     
         8 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 7 , wherein the air groove is so formed that a height thereof gradually decreases with distance to an upper side of the side surface section to prevent entry of water from above via the air groove. 
     
     
         9 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 3 , wherein a plurality of suckers are provided in the bottom surface section of the fitting section, and that the plurality of suckers are higher in a vicinity of an outer circumference of the bottom surface section and lower in a vicinity of a center of the bottom surface section. 
     
     
         10 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein the fitting section includes positioning means for defining a positional relationship with respect to the heel section of the shoe. 
     
     
         11 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the fitting section includes a bottom surface section and a side surface section, and   a shape of the side surface section in a plan view is a circular shape, an elliptical shape, a semi-cylindrical shape having no corners, a semi-cylindrical shape having rounded corners, or a quadrangular shape having rounded corners.   
     
     
         12 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 3 , wherein a plurality of suckers are provided in the bottom surface section of the fitting section, and that the plurality of suckers are so placed as to have random heights in the bottom surface section. 
     
     
         13 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , wherein a bellows is formed in the bottom surface section of the fitting section so that the bottom surface section readily extends and contracts in an in-plane direction thereof. 
     
     
         14 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 13 , wherein a shape of the bellows is so formed as to be roughly similar to a shape of the bottom surface section in the plan view. 
     
     
         15 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 13 , wherein the bellows is so formed as to be a roughly cross-shaped bellows. 
     
     
         16 . The shoe heel cover according to  claim 1 , further comprising an adjustment member pushed into a gap between the heel section and the fitting section to fill the gap.