A shoe pad includes air pumping elements for cooling the interior of a
shoe. The pumping elements include forward pumping elements for pumping
air from back to front, and backward pumping elements for pumping air
from front to back. The pad includes an upper sheet attached to a lower
sheet. Each pumping element includes a channel on the lower sheet covered
by the upper sheet. The channel has an intake and an exhaust. Cavities
are distributed along the channel. Resilient blisters on the upper sheet
are aligned with the cavities on the lower sheet to define pumps. Each
pump has an intake and an exhaust. Flap valves projecting down from the
upper sheet are respectively positioned against the intakes of the pumps.
Alignment pins projecting down from the top sheet are positioned in
alignment holes on the lower sheet.