Ornamental upper sandal straps for the display of logos or text

Abstract

An ornamental sandal, with cut outs of text, symbols, logos, or designs on the upper strap to allow penetration of the exposed cut out areas of the epidermal skin on the foot surface to the sun's ultraviolet rays to produce a temporary tanned tattoo-like effect on the skin after the sandals are removed from the feet. The user of the sandal has the option to choose the type of text, symbol, logo, or design when purchasing the sandal. Alternatively, the user may interchange upper straps to display preferred text, symbol, logo, or design of choice to suit the occasion, or have sandals custom made to the user's specifications.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates generally to ornamental sandals. More particularly, the invention relates to ornamental sandals capable of displaying text, symbols, logos, or designs, on the epidermal layer of the skin on the foot surface after wear and exposure to the sun.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The ancient art of tattooing to decorate and display designs, pictures, text, and logos on various parts of the human body as a means of personal expression has been practiced for centuries. However, tattooing one's body is a painful process that involves the use of needles made of various metals to pierce through the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin and leaves a permanent impression and scar on the body surface that can only be removed by other equally painful procedures.[0003]Over the years, other, less painful methods to mimic the tattooing effect on the human skin have been developed. These include stencils of various designs for application of ...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]The present invention is directed to a foot wear such as a sandal or open toe shoe with upper straps that have cut outs of text, symbols, logos, or designs of various kinds which when worn by the user allows the ultraviolet rays of the sun to selectively penetrate the exposed skin under the cut outs on the strap producing a tanning effect on the exposed skin in the shape of the cut outs such that when the wearer removes the sandals, the cut out text, symbols, logos, or designs remain on the skin surface akin to tattoo's for a period of time.

Problems solved by technology

However, tattooing one's body is a painful process that involves the use of needles made of various metals to pierce through the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin and leaves a permanent impression and scar on the body surface that can only be removed by other equally painful procedures.

Prior art relating to the display of temporary sun-tanned tattoo's on the skin created by apparel and accessories has been limited thus far to clothing apparel and accessories such as head gear as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,970,516 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,652,959.

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