Footwear sole plate with forefoot through hole
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsClayton Chambers, John Droege
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Abstract
A sole structure for an article of footwear may have a midsole system that includes a sole plate having a forefoot region and a midfoot region. The sole plate may have a foot-facing surface and a ground-facing surface opposite to the foot-facing surface. The sole plate may define a through hole extending from the foot-facing surface to the ground-facing surface in the forefoot region. The through hole may be closer to a medial edge of the sole plate than to a lateral edge of the sole plate. The sole plate may have ridges extending longitudinally in the midfoot region and in the forefoot region. The ridges may have crests at least some of which may extend non-parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction of the sole plate.
Claims20
A sole structure for an article of footwear comprising:
- a midsole system including:
- a sole plate;
- wherein;
- the sole plate has a foot-facing surface and a ground-facing surface opposite to the foot-facing surface;
- the foot-facing surface has ridges extending longitudinally along the sole plate in a forefoot region and in a midfoot region of the sole plate, each of the ridges having an anterior end in the forefoot region and a posterior end in the midfoot region;
- the ground-facing surface has grooves extending longitudinally in correspondence with the ridges;
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- the sole plate defines a through hole extending from the foot-facing surface to the ground-facing surface and through one of the ridges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.