Heeled footwear and method of producing heeled footwear
AssigneeECCO Sko A/S
InventorPaulo Jorge Seabra
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Abstract
Heeled footwear such as a shoe or boot including a sole assembly and a heel part may be provided. In one implementation, the heel part may include an insert formed in a first material. The insert may include a core body delimited by an upper surface, a lower bottom surface, and an outer surface connecting the upper and lower surfaces. At least a part of the outer surface may be encased in a second material different from the first material. The outer material may form an outer contour layer of the heel part, and the sole assembly may include an outsole formed in the second material, the second material being softer than the first material. The outsole and the outer contour layer may be designed to be formed in one piece providing an outer sole unit being one component.
Claims25
Heeled footwear comprising:
- an upper having a forefoot area, an arch area, and a heel area;
- a heel part comprising:
- an insert, made of a first polymeric material, providing constructional strength to the heel part, the insert having an upper facing part, a ground facing part, and an outer surface extending between the upper facing part and the ground facing part, and
- a ground contacting part having a ground contacting surface, an opposite insert facing part, and an outer surface extending between the ground contacting surface and the insert facing part, the ground contacting part being attached to the ground facing part of the insert;
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- a sole assembly, made of a second polymeric material, extending from a forefoot part of the footwear to the heel part, the sole assembly configured to create a contour layer surrounding at least a portion of the outer surface of the insert of the heel part and a portion of the outer surface of the ground contacting part of the heel part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.