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US 11,730,234 B2Granted
Sockliner with integral skirt
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorBruce J. Kilgore
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Abstract
A sockliner for a shoe may be formed to include an integral fabric skirt. The fabric skirt may remain loose from the sockliner along at least a portion of the periphery of the sockliner. The loose periphery of the fabric skirt may be used to join the sockliner to other shoe components, as in a strobel-type seam.
Claims20
A method for making a sockliner with an integrated fabric edge, the method comprising:
- placing a fabric skirt in a mold having a central portion and a peripheral portion;
- introducing a foam into the mold;
- and
- joining a central portion of the fabric skirt to the foam in or proximate to the central portion of the mold by at least partially impregnating the central portion of the fabric skirt with the foam, such that at least a portion of a periphery of the fabric skirt is not joined to the foam.
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A method for making a sockliner, the method comprising:
- placing a fabric skirt in a mold having a central portion and a peripheral portion;
- introducing a foam into the mold;
- and
- joining a central portion of the fabric skirt to the foam in the mold by at least partially impregnating the central portion of the fabric skirt with the foam, such that at least a portion of a periphery of the fabric skirt remains loose from the foam.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.