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US 11,766,087 B2Granted
Footwear article having cord structure
AssigneeFuerst Group, Inc.
InventorsMichael A. Aveni, John Tawney, Rory Fuerst
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Abstract
A footwear article is provided herein. The footwear article may include a sole coupled to a cord structure. The cord structure may include interconnected bights in a vamp cord and a rand cord forming a loop line extending along at least a portion of the footwear article.
Claims20
A footwear article comprising:
- a sole;
- and
- a cord structure including:
- a first substructure including:
- a first cord section coupled to the sole;
- and
- a second cord section coupled to the sole and including a bight that loops through and slippably engages a third cord section and a fourth cord section that are included in a second substructure;
- and
- a lace cord extending through a plurality of lace attachment bights in the second substructure.
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A footwear article comprising:
- a sole;
- and
- a cord structure including:
- a rand substructure including:
- a first cord section coupled to the sole;
- and
- a second cord section coupled to the sole and including a bight that loops through and slippably engages a third cord section and a fourth cord section that are included in a vamp substructure;
- and
- a lace cord extending through a plurality of lace attachment bights in the vamp substructure;
- wherein the first cord section and the second cord section in the rand substructure and the third cord section and the fourth cord section in the vamp substructure have similar cross-sectional geometries.
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A footwear article comprising:
- a sole;
- and
- a cord structure including:
- a rand substructure including:
- a first cord section;
- and
- a second cord section including a bight that loops through and slippably engages a third cord section and a fourth cord section in a vamp substructure;
- and
- a lace cord extending through a plurality of lace attachment bights in the vamp substructure;
- wherein the first cord section and the second cord section in the rand substructure, the third cord section and the fourth cord section in the vamp substructure, and the lace cord have round cross-sectional geometries;
- and
- wherein the vamp substructure and the rand substructure extends around a toe side of the footwear article.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.