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US 12,114,728 B2Granted
Mold for 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.
Claims6
A mold for forming a sockliner with an integrated fabric skirt, the mold comprising:
- a forming surface defining a cavity within the mold, the forming surface comprising a central portion and a periphery;
- and
- one or more indentations in the central portion of the forming surface, the one or more indentations permitting fluid communication of a flowable foam from the cavity into the one or more indentations, wherein the periphery of the forming surface is without indentations.
A mold, comprising:
- a forming surface defining a cavity within the mold;
- the forming surface comprising a central portion and a periphery;
- and
- one or more indentations in the central portion of the forming surface, the one or more indentations permitting fluid communication of a flowable foam from the cavity into the one or more indentations, wherein the periphery of the forming surface has no indentations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.