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US 2018/0000187 A1Published application
Article of footwear having a textile upper
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsBhupesh Dua, Edward Nathaniel Thomas
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Abstract
An article of footwear and a method of manufacturing the article of footwear are disclosed. The footwear may include an upper and a sole structure. The upper incorporates a textile element with edges that are joined together to define at least a portion of a void for receiving a foot. Various warp or weft knitting processes, including circular knitting, may be utilized to form the textile element.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
An upper for an article of footwear, the upper comprising:
- a wide-tube circular-knitted textile element having a first longitudinal edge extending from a forefoot region of the circular-knitted textile element to a heel region of the circular-knitted textile element and a second longitudinal edge opposite the first longitudinal edge and extending from the forefoot region to the heel region,
- wherein the circular-knitted textile element comprises a distance extending over a surface of the circular-knitted textile element between the first longitudinal edge and the second longitudinal edge in the heel region, the distance being approximately twelve inches.
An article of footwear comprising:
- an upper comprising a wide-tube circular-knitted textile element having a first longitudinal edge extending from a forefoot region of the circular-knitted textile element to a heel region of the circular-knitted textile element and a second longitudinal edge opposite the first longitudinal edge and extending from the forefoot region to the heel region;
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- a sole structure secured to the upper,
- wherein the circular-knitted textile element comprises a distance extending over a surface of the circular-knitted textile element between the first longitudinal edge and the second longitudinal edge in the heel region, the distance being approximately twelve inches.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.