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US 11,851,789 B2Granted
Circularly woven sports article
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsTom O'Haire, Andrew Yip
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Abstract
Described is a circularly-woven tube for an article of footwear or an article of apparel comprising: a plurality of warp yarns, having a first elastic modulus; a plurality of weft yarns, having a second elastic modulus, and wherein the second elastic modulus is smaller than the first elastic modulus.
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A circularly-woven tube for an article of footwear comprising:
- a plurality of warp yarns, having a first elastic modulus;
- a plurality of weft yarns, having a second elastic modulus, and
- wherein the second elastic modulus is smaller than the first elastic modulus;
- and wherein a first type of warp yarns is arranged in a first area and a second type of warp yarns is arranged in a second area of the circularly-woven tube,
- wherein the first type of warp yarns has a first bending stiffness and the second type of warp yarns has a second bending stiffness, and the second bending stiffness is greater than the first bending stiffness, and
- wherein the first area is arranged in a vamp portion of an upper of the article of footwear and the second area is arranged in a bottom portion of the upper.
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A method of producing a circularly-woven tube for an article of footwear, comprising:
- providing a plurality of warp yarns, having a first elastic modulus;
- providing a plurality of weft yarns, having a second elastic modulus,
- wherein the second elastic modulus is smaller than the first elastic modulus;
- circularly weaving the plurality of warp yarns and the plurality of weft yarns into a tubular shape;
- wherein circularly weaving comprises arranging a first type of warp yarns in a first area and a second type of warp yarns in a second area of the circularly-woven tube,
- wherein the first type of warp yarns has a first bending stiffness and the second type of warp yarns has a second bending stiffness, and the second bending stiffness is greater than the first bending stiffness, and
- wherein the first area is arranged in a vamp portion of an upper of the article of footwear and the second area is arranged in a bottom portion of the upper.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.