DEVICE TO PREVENT FALLING IN CASE OF ICE-COVERED GROUND Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A43B13/22 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: device to prevent falling of a person in case of ice-covered ground is intended for installation onto heel of winter shoes. Device represents a flexible metal strip, one of sides of which has thorns and support sites. Strip is bent according to heel shape and is fixed on the latter with the help of coupler screw. In working position the strip on heel looks like a bracket-horseshoe, thorns of which prevent skidding of shoes in process of walking on slippery surface. At the entrance to a room the bracket-horseshoe is turned manually by 180 degrees, and it occupies place in front of heel, thorns up, and therefore does not damage surface of floor.

EFFECT: invention provides for rigid adhesion of shoes with ice-covered surface, prevents slippage of shoes and therefore prevents falling of a person.

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