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US 2012/0233883 A1Published application
Forming Portion Of An Article From Fabrication Scrap, And Products Thereof
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsKaren N. Spencer, Benjamin A. Shaffer
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Abstract
Material scraps can be collected and resized. The resized scrap can be distributed to create a recovered material layer, which layer (with or without one or more carrier layers and/or additional elements) can then be subjected to heat and/or pressure so as to create a pliable composite panel. That pliable composite panel, or a portion thereof, may then be used to create an upper shell or another article.
Claims27
A method comprising:
- distributing material scraps so as to form a recovered material layer;
- and
- applying heat and pressure to the recovered material layer so as to create a pliable composite panel.
An article of footwear comprising an upper, the upper including a shell, the shell further comprising:
- a fused particle layer comprising particles of a first material bonded by fused particles of a second material, the wherein the first material is different from the second material and the second material comprises TPU.
A method comprising:
- distributing material scraps so as to form a recovered material layer, wherein the material scraps comprise resized remnants of materials used to fabricate one or more shoe uppers;
- applying heat and pressure to the recovered material layer so as to create a pliable composite panel;
- and
- forming an article that includes at least a portion of the pliable composite panel.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- distributing material scraps over a scrim panel so as to form a recovered material layer and scrim panel assembly;
- and
- felting the assembly so as to form a pliable composite panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.