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US 12,478,138 B2Granted
Shoe and shoe upper with optimized shape-holding properties
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsFlorian Poegl, Florian Godenberg, Matthias Linz
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Abstract
An upper for a shoe includes a first tubular textile layer and a second tubular textile layer. The first tubular textile layer is at least partially surrounded by the second tubular textile layer thus forming an internal textile layer and an external textile layer. The first tubular textile layer includes a first zone. The first zone includes a first yarn and the first tubular textile layer includes a second yarn. The first yarn is more resilient than the second yarn, and the first zone includes a polygonal shape.
Claims16
An upper for a shoe, the upper comprising:
- a first tubular textile layer and a second tubular textile layer, wherein the first tubular textile layer is at least partially surrounded by the second tubular textile layer thus forming an internal textile layer and an external textile layer and defining a foot-receiving opening;
- wherein the first tubular textile layer comprises:
- a first zone, the first zone comprises a first yarn;
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- a second zone that is located on a first side of the first zone, the foot-receiving opening being located on a second side of the first zone, and the first side being opposite the second side across the first zone;
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- wherein the first tubular textile layer comprises a second yarn and the second zone comprises a third yarn different from the first yarn, wherein the first yarn and the third yarn are more resilient than the second yarn;
- wherein the first zone comprises a polygonal shape that includes a first corner on a medial side of the upper, a second corner on a lateral side of the upper, and an edge extending between the first corner and the second corner, wherein the polygonal shape comprises a polygonal border defined by a transition from the first yarn in the first zone to one of the second yarn and the third yarn outside the first zone, and wherein an entirety of the polygonal border within the first tubular textile layer is further defined by a transition from a first fabric type in the first zone to one or more different fabric types outside of the first zone, wherein the first fabric type differs from the one or more different fabric types by a characteristic;
- wherein the second zone is located at an instep area of the first tubular textile layer;
- wherein the first zone forms a first part of a collar region of the first tubular textile layer;
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- wherein a second part of the collar region of the first tubular textile layer is outside of the first zone and the second zone, and the first part of the collar region and the second part of the collar region both adjoin the foot-receiving opening.
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A method of manufacturing an upper for a shoe, the method comprising:
- manufacturing a first tubular textile layer comprising a first zone, wherein the first zone comprises a polygonal shape;
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- manufacturing a second tubular textile layer;
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- surrounding at least partially the first tubular textile layer with the second tubular textile layer;
- wherein the first zone comprises a first yarn, the first tubular textile layer comprises a second yarn, wherein the first yarn is more resilient than the second yarn, the polygonal shape of the first zone comprises a polygonal border defined by a transition from the first yarn within the first zone to the second yarn outside the first zone, and the polygonal shape includes a first corner on a medial side of the upper, a second corner on a lateral side of the upper, and an edge extending between the first corner and the second corner, and wherein an entirety of the polygonal border within the first tubular textile layer is further defined by a transition from a first fabric type in the first zone to one or more different fabric types outside of the first zone, wherein the first fabric type differs from the one or more different fabric types by a characteristic;
- wherein the first zone forms at least a first part of a collar region of the first tubular textile layer of the upper, and
- wherein at least a second part of the collar region of the first tubular textile layer is outside of the first zone, and the first part of the collar region and the second part of the collar region both adjoin the foot-receiving opening.
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