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US 2020/0008530 A1Published application
Article with Thermally Bonded Ribbon Structure and Method of Making
AssigneeUnder Armour, Inc.
InventorsTom Luedecke, Carmen Zhu
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing an upper for an article of footwear includes dispensing ribbon in an overlapping pattern of ribbon sections to form a ribbon structure; and fixedly attaching a first ribbon section to an underlying material with thermal joining.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing an upper for an article of footwear, the method comprising:
- dispensing ribbon in an overlapping pattern of ribbon sections to form a ribbon structure;
- and
- fixedly attaching a first ribbon section to an underlying material with thermal joining.
A method of manufacturing an upper for an article of footwear, the method comprising:
- forming a ribbon structure including a plurality of ribbon sections arranged in an overlapping pattern, the plurality of ribbon sections including a first set of ribbon sections and a second set of ribbon sections;
- and
- selectively, fixedly attaching the first set of ribbon sections to the second set of ribbon sections with thermal joining.
A method of manufacturing an upper for an article of footwear, the method comprising:
- forming a ribbon structure including a plurality of ribbon sections including a first set of ribbon sections and a second set of ribbon sections arranged in an overlapping pattern to form a plurality of overlapping regions;
- and
- selectively, fixedly attaching the first set of ribbon sections to the second set of ribbon sections with thermal joining;
- wherein the plurality of ribbon sections are translucent and have a first opacity;
- wherein the overlapping regions have a second opacity that is greater than the first opacity.
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