Systems and methods for flexible footwear
AssigneePedestal Footwear
InventorMichael Lyon
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Abstract
A footwear article, the footwear article including a sock having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having an opening configured to receive a human foot and the distal end terminating in a curved closed cavity configured to receive a toe portion of the human foot, the distal end and the proximal ended defining an tubular body therebetween, the tubular body having a curved heel portion proximate the opening of the distal end, the heel portion extending to the toe portion forming a sole portion on an underside of the sock and a rubber layer disposed on at least a portion of the underside of the sock.
Claims10
A method for forming a footwear article, the method comprising:
- selectively immersing only a sole portion of a sock into a coagulant;
- stretching the sock over a form after removing the sock from the coagulant, the form having a shape of at least a portion of a human foot;
- immersing the sole portion of the sock into a rubber solution;
- immersing the sole portion of the sock into a leaching solution, wherein the leaching solution removes water-based chemicals from the sole portion of the sock;
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- drying the sole portion of the sock, wherein drying the sole portion of the sock activates a hardening process of the rubber solution thereby forming a rubber layer on the sole portion, and wherein the sole portion of the sock is an underside of the sock extending from a heel portion of the sock to a toe portion of the sock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.