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US 2018/0000195 A1Published application
Thermoforming footwear method
AssigneeSkysole Corporation
InventorsJoseph Skaja, Jerome Gross
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Abstract
An article of footwear and method of manufacturing an article of footwear comprises an upper, a sole structure adjacent the upper and a thermoplastic material sheet attached to the upper to fixedly secure one or more components to the upper or fixedly secure the upper to a sole structure where the thermoplastic material sheet provides the primary or only means for securing the components to the upper and the upper to the sole structure.
Claims6
A method for assembling a footwear, comprising:
- providing an inverted negative mold of the footwear;
- placing a perforated TPU sheet inside the mold;
- heating the TPU sheet;
- placing an upper and a base component in the mold against the TPU sheet;
- applying a vacuum to apply the TPU sheet against the upper and base component to bond the base component to the upper;
- and
- controlling a distortion of holes in the perforated TPU sheet using a pre-distortion software.
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